Hello and welcome to the basics of HTML. To begin, HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. If you are very used to surfing the web you may already know that HTML is the primary language that is used to control the flow and layout of most web pages. HTML is a very practical language, and the good news is, it is not very difficult to learn, unlike programming.

Take for example, if you can remember that far back, WordStar - the popular word processing program we used to use back in the late 1980's they used certain block charactersto show which parts of the text are italicised or bolded. And we can usually see the following code, somewhat like so :

Here is some text, and I want this word <b>bolded</b>

If we print the above line out on paper we would generally find that we obtain the following :

Here is some text, and I want this word bolded.

In parallel, HTML also uses the same technique to mark which parts of the body text will appear as bolded or italicised or both.

Let us begin learning this very easy language with the second part of the introduction :

• The Basic HTML Document
• What are the factors to be considered in building a homepage?
• Studying the elements of a basic HTML document.
• Specifying the HTML page's background and colour scheme
• Common HTML tags and elements
• Paragraphing and layout

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