What is HTML
| by Kamal Hussain | July 21, 2007
So what does HTML stands for, well HTML stands for ‘hyper text mark-up language' and is a basic programming language that anyone can learn and is used for making web pages.
WHAT TOOLS DO I NEED?
There are many tools available for you to build a website most popular one are WYSINWYG What You see is what you get HTML editor, but for us a simple program like notepad will do. You will find notepad in windows, click start on your taskbar then navigate to programs then go to accessories from there you can select notepad. Secondly you will need to have a browser to view your page once it has been created. The are many freely available browsers do download from the internet you can use any browser of your chose, following are list of some good browsers.
What’s HTML Tags?
The HTML language is made up of tags that are enclosed in angle brackets, () a webpage is completely enclosed within the html tags.
Most html tags work in pairs
The first tag tells the browser that it is reading a html document. The tag with the / in it tells the browser that the html has ended
Take a look below
The first tag tells the browser that it is reading the head of a html document. The tag with the / in it tells the browser that the head part has ended
One more example
The first tag tells the browser that it is reading the title of a html document. The tag with the / in it tells the browser that the title has ended.
Building my First HTML Program:
Type in the following text:
Title of page
Hello World. This text is bold
Save the file as "helloworld.htm".
Start your Internet browser. Select "Open" (or "Open Page") in the File menu of your browser. A dialog box will appear. Select "Browse" (or "Choose File") and locate the HTML file you just created - "helloworld.htm" - select it and click "Open". Now you should see an address in the dialog box, for example "C:\MyDocuments\helloworld.htm". Click OK, and the browser will display the page.
This article was published by Kamal Hussain.
www.freehostrunner.com
Support and Development Team.
WHAT TOOLS DO I NEED?
There are many tools available for you to build a website most popular one are WYSINWYG What You see is what you get HTML editor, but for us a simple program like notepad will do. You will find notepad in windows, click start on your taskbar then navigate to programs then go to accessories from there you can select notepad. Secondly you will need to have a browser to view your page once it has been created. The are many freely available browsers do download from the internet you can use any browser of your chose, following are list of some good browsers.
What’s HTML Tags?
The HTML language is made up of tags that are enclosed in angle brackets, () a webpage is completely enclosed within the html tags.
Most html tags work in pairs
The first tag tells the browser that it is reading a html document. The tag with the / in it tells the browser that the html has ended
Take a look below
The first tag tells the browser that it is reading the head of a html document. The tag with the / in it tells the browser that the head part has ended
One more example
The first tag tells the browser that it is reading the title of a html document. The tag with the / in it tells the browser that the title has ended.
Building my First HTML Program:
Type in the following text:
Title of page
Hello World. This text is bold
Save the file as "helloworld.htm".
Start your Internet browser. Select "Open" (or "Open Page") in the File menu of your browser. A dialog box will appear. Select "Browse" (or "Choose File") and locate the HTML file you just created - "helloworld.htm" - select it and click "Open". Now you should see an address in the dialog box, for example "C:\MyDocuments\helloworld.htm". Click OK, and the browser will display the page.
This article was published by Kamal Hussain.
www.freehostrunner.com
Support and Development Team.
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