Learn html basics

As I said before, this site is for people who are just starting out in web site building. First timers, newbie's, people that don't know didly. The truth is, learning html is not as difficult as it looks, and the basic syntax can be learned in a short time by the average Joe or Jolene.

The future of web authoring is xhtml so that is what you should learn. xhtml is not very different from html. Things like, always use lowercase letters in xhtml, elements must be properly nested, all elements must be closed are the most important differences. The tutorials and examples here are proper xhtml.

What is html?

In a nut shell, html is what we all use to create web pages. You, me and everyone else. HTML is a code that tells text what to do and then your browser displays that text as a web page. HTML is contained inside brackets < brackets >. For example: If you wanted to give a word or phrase importance you could display it as bold text (<b>this is an important word or phrase</b> ). An italicized word would be displayed in italics <i>like this </i> and so on.

The basis of an html file. (A web page)

A web site is nothing more than a collection of web pages. Once you understand the anatomy of a web page then building a web site is simple, well, lets just say its a lot less complicated. Below is an example of an HTML file and its structure. Each HTML web page is created using this format.

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