Html For Dummies
The Five Basic Steps.
Hello peoples,
I am assuming if you are reading this you are new or just brushing up to the wonderful world of Html(Hyper Text Markup Language.)If you take these steps one a day and understand them then you will be able to use Html to create a webpage for yourself by the end of the week. You say thats impossible but it really isn't trust me. I've been there and have done that. Ooh well enough about me and on to the Seven Basic Steps

Ok,
there are a few things you need to write Html. The first of them being is computer (imagine that,) notepad, and a browser such as Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, and so on.

First things first todays step is how to name and go about setting up your document. Whenever you start an Html page with notepad you always put at the top and
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when you are done writing at the bottom of the page. Notice how I put /HTML between the <> commands. This is done to close the regular HTML at the top. Another thing do you see how I capitolized HTML and /HTML this is your choise but it makes it easier to write Html that way if you have a messup you can comeback and find it a lot easier. Next, whenever you save your document you save it with .html. For example if You wanted to save it as Happy you would save it as Happy.html well that is the basics. Today comes to an end although you learned some of the most important steps there are in Html. See you bright and early tommorow.
Step 2
Well,
your back I see today were learning the more basic commands such as bold, italic, and type writer font. Now before we learn this it is very important that you understand that when you start a command such as <> you must end it when your done writing with . The slash tells the computer that to stop making that font or whatever you were using.

The,
first command you are going to learn today is how to make your writing bold such as Bold. You like it, I thought you would anyhow here is the command of how to do it. To get bold writing you would use your writing here . That isn't that hard is it. I told you that Html is not the hardest thing in the world to understand. (That would have to be girls!) Anyway next is the italic command italic writing looks like this italic. Wow I want my writing to look like that you say. You can make it look like that as soon as you learn the code. But first just a warning I would only use italic writing to express something special, not in the bulk writing. The command for italic writing is <I> your writing here </I>. Next you learn typewriter text. Tpyewriter text is pretty cool huh? The command for typewrite text is <TT> your writing here </TT>. With these three codes you can already start your homepage. Another cool thing is that if you use typewriter and Bold you cane get Bold Typewriter text. There are many other combinations that you can use together just go out there and try some. The next three commands are ones that you don't have to close with so it makes it a little easier writing. The first one is a horizontal line like the ones used to seperate the steps on this page. The command for a horizontal line is <HR>. That is probably one of the easiest commands. The next two are pretty easy too. The next one is a break which skips a line. The command for a break is <BR>. Again this is one You dont have to close so it makes it fairly easy. You can use as many breaks in a row as you want. The next command is paragraph which does the same thing as break but skips an extra line. Well today lesson two comes to an end. Review over this as much as you want but be here bright and early tommorow for lesson three.
Step 3
Today,
you are going to learn how to manipulate your text sizes. The first command today is heading six which is the smallest heading there is to number one. You can use the command <H6> your writing here </H6> all the way through <H1> </H1>. Personnaly I never use these i just use the next few codes listed below for my writing if I need to make it smaller or bigger. The next thing to learn is the font commands. Font commands go through <font size="-1"> your writing here </font>, through <font size="+6"> your writing here </font>. Also if you use the font commands after size="+?" you can also change the color of your writing by using color="?". It would look like this <font size="+?" color="?"> your writing here </font>. Next we learn how to move text around on the webpage. <center> will center your writing for you while <p align="right"> </p> will center your writing to the right or <p align="left"></p> will center on the left. Get some practice with what we have learned today and come back tommorow for step four adding images.


Step 4
Welcome,
to day number four today you will learn to add images to your already great webpage. To put an image on your webpage you use <img src="whatever.bmp">. This is one of the ones you don't have to close unless you are making it a hyperlink picture which you learn how to do tommorow. What is happening here is that img tells the computer to look for an image and src tells the computer where to find it. This is the shortest step of the five so come back tommorow for the best and final step. click here for lesson five   click here to go back to main page.
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