HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, dont ask me what that means because I have so idea. This is a very simple tutorial so those of you who know HTML please don't get offended (I'll have an advanced tutorial soon).
HTML is very close to human language (mainly English). HTML must be transfered from the HTML code to Binary Code(computer language). Most programing languages, like C and C++ need expensive compilers to transfer to Binary, but not HTML. Actually everything you ever needed to make web pages came with your computer! Yes, it's true. Windows users use a program called NotePad. Mac users use the standard word processor (name depends on what version you have). I'm sure you've used one of these programs before.
HTML code is made of things called "tags". Tags are the medium between computer and human language. simple tags include (,
, ) and so on. You may have noticed that they are all in angle brackets or <>. These just tell the computer that the things written inside are tags. Now let's get to writing your page.
First open your text editor (word processor). the first tag we will place on your page is the tag. this tells the computer you are writing in html code. Place this tag at the very top of your page.
The next tag is the or heading tag. This just says that this is the heading of your page.
Now... We put the tag. Within that title tag we put the name we want everyone to see in the top bar of our web browser. After youve written the name you want write this is called the closing tag. You see? the / mark shows that the tag has closed.
HTML is kind of like making a cake with lots of layers. How many is up to you.
This next tag the tag isthe filling of the cake. Inside this tage is where you put all the information you want the people who visit your page to see. When you want to seperate paragraphs use the
or break tag.
We are almost done! Now you want to colse the body tag. Remeber the / mark? Thats all you have to do.
This is the end my friends. Just close the html tag and thats it. Save yor file as itsname.html. Remember to send me your HTML file (Stryker2021@aol.com) and learn as much about this language as you can!