How to Learn HTML by Cherie Ang

HTML is the abbreviation for HyperText Markup Language. It is a special code used for the creation of websites, and most Web designers know it, or they know a program that creates HTML for them. HTML can be a little frustrating and difficult to actually understand.

Steps

1. HTML reads left to right. First, you have to understand tags. Tags are placed at the beginning of whatever you want to

change. If you wanted to make a word bold, you'd put a tag at the beginning of the word, and at the end.

2. Tags begin with a less-than sign: . What goes inside the is the tag. Learning

HTML is learning the tag to perform whatever you want to do. Usually, the tag at the end has a / before the greater sign. For

example: Hello

- Every tag should begin with an opening and closing tag. If a tag only does not specifically use a closing tag [such as

or , which will you see below], then the tag should end with a slash inside of the tag. Thus, the previous tags would be

written as and , respectively.

- The tag for a paragraph is .

- The tag for bold is or .

- The tag for italics is or .

- In HTML, the tag must be placed around the code.

- The tag for a break (skip in the line, hitting to hitting "enter" on the keyboard) is .

- The tag is always around the text.

3. By now, you can write HTML using tags. But what if you want more? Here's some more codes:

To insert images:

To resize images: (size is adjustable)

Linking images:

4. There are many websites that explain HTML more in-depth. Some good sites are Funky-Chickens.com and

HtmlCodeTutorial.com.

5.Every HTML page start with and end with . It will tell the server that it is a html page. Within the

tag, the page consist of head and body section. The head section allows us to specify the title. The body section is the

content of the html page.

6. Now that we have tags down, let's see what we can make with the knowledge:

My Title Goes Here

I like to write a lot of HTML!

Tags are so much fun. You can do it, too!

Tips

If you're getting serious with HTML, buy Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. It teaches you codes and all. Both of them are

WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor. Their functions is very similar to word processor. It will be easy to get

started with the 2 softwares. If you don't wish to spend money on the html software, there are some free html editors for you

to test out. One of them is Nvu, WYSIWYG editor, this software is very similar to Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage.

Things You'll Need

A word processor, such as Microsoft Word, Notepad or BBEdit.