html intro

Intro to HTML

What is HTML, and what does HTML stand for?
 › HTML is a text based programming language used to design webpages. What makes HTML so great, is that since it is text based, it can be viewed on every modern computer. You can also make a website using Notepad which is found on every computer that has Windows. HTML stands for Hypertext markup language.

How does HTML work?
 › HTML works with Tags. Tags are pieces of code that are at the front and back of unformatted text. The 2 main parts of tags are the opening and closing. The opening part of the tag will be at the front of what you are trying to change. It will usually look something like this: 
T he closing part of the tag will look something like this: 
The difference between the opening and closing is that the opening has no forward slash in it, while the closing does. Now, there are a ton of different things you can put inside the < and > symbols. A list of all the different tags can be found at: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_reference.asp
There are also different elements you can add into a tag, although some elements only work with certian tags. For example in the font tag ( ), you can add in different elements to change the color, size, and type of font.

Ex: example text

This will make the text appear as: example text

Where to begin when making a webpage with notepad?
 » In order to make a webpage, you first need to open up notepad. Then start the document by typing:

<html>
<head>

<title>Webpage title</title>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

The different tags that you have typed into notepad are the html, head, title, and body tags.
The opening html tag is always the very first thing in the document, and the closing HTML tag is always the last thing in the document. The head tag is used to define information about the document, like the document title. Inbetween the opening and closing head tags will be the title tags. Inbetween the opening and closing title tag will be the title of the page. Type in what you want the title of your page to be, and it will appear at the top of the browser window. For example, in the document I have used as an example, the title was "Untitled Site". The other tag is the body tag, this declares where the body of the webpage will be, or in other words, this is where you enter in all of the info and coding that you want to appear on the webpage.

Now save the notepad document with the name you want it to be, and after the name put .htm or .html so you can open the document in internet explorer to see if your coding works. But, nothing except the title will show up since you dont have any content on your page. To learn more HTML to code your webpage, read the other sections on this site.