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HTML For Beginners: It's not that hard!

By: Jason Smith

HTML for Beginners

Does HTML seem to be scary for you? Many people have viewed
complicated HTML that had been produced by an editor program
and have shied away from it altogether!

You must realize that from the very beginning HTML was supposed
to be quite a simple language to learn and to use. However, there
have been many automated systems that seemed to over-
complicate the whole process. Try to calm any fears you have
about HTML and jump right in!

You have to realize that making a web page is really not that hard
to do. Basic HTML is quite user friendly. HTML which is short for
Hyper Text Markup Language is a very simple computer language
or better yet it is a page description language. You have a given
set of codes that will determine what your web page will look like
in a web browser.

A special type of text that is used with HTML is called hypertext. It
has no sequencing like a book does. What do you do when you
want to look up something in a book? Right - you either search in
the table of contents or the index. Now think of hypertext as
being much more effective than this. You are able to connect
pictures and words to other pages. The main power of the World
Wide Web is in hyper linking.

Markup comes from the field of printing. This tells the type-setter
how to arrange the images and text on a page that is going to be
printed. It also contains directions about fonts, spacing, character
size, white areas on the page, etc. Well, to put it simply, HTML
does almost the same thing except that it replaces the type-setter
with your browser. To be more succinct, HTML is a computer
language that tells the browser how to arrange the hypertext on
your computer.

Before you can open HTML in a web browser, you have to first
save the files as filename.html. If you are not completely sure how
this is done, then you can always use an HTML code editing
program like XSitePro.

All about Tags

Just about the only thing you will need to understand about
writing pages in HTML is the tag system. You can think of tags just
like commands that are composed in angle brackets and have the
text in between them. An example of a paragraph tag is:

Your paragraph goes here.

You have to remember that a closing tag has a slash before the
name such as . You can have a variety of tags inside of other
tags just as long as your remember to always close the last one
first. If you do not, then you will have an invalid code.

The last thing you must remember about tags is that the opening
tag can always include some extra information but a closing tag
cannot.

This is just a very brief overview of HTML for beginners. You have
to realize that HTML is not as scary a thing as you think it may be.
There are tutorials on the Internet that can get you over the
hurdles of designing your website using HTML or you can always
use a simple editor.

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