Introduction to HTML
HTML is probably the easiest language to code in. It requires minimum skill sets and very little knowledge to get started with designing a web page in html, it stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. Even with the web 2.0 emerging, HTML has not lost it’s importance to programming languages like PHP and CSS which are as easy as HTML but are capable of processing much more complex instructions that HTML. it is still the basic of all programming languages used to develop web pages and from the point of view of a beginner- HTML lays the foundation for everything else.
Developing a simple page in HTML is just a matter of 30 seconds. That’s right, open a text file on your PC and copy paste the following code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of page</title>
</head>
<body>
This is (your name’s) first webpage. <b>This text is bold</b>
</body>
</html>
Save it as filename.html
And that’s it, you have your first web page up and ready for use. The result of the above code is-
This is (your name’s) first webpage. This text is bold
To view it, open internet explorer, browse to the file location and open it just you open a file in MS word. Alternatively, you could double click on the file to open it.
Adding more text and formatting that is also as simple, not only that, you can add images with as much ease. If you’d like to read more on HTML or try learning the language follow this link.
They also have an example similar to the one I made for you above, if you go through their explanation you’d find it really easy to understand what the tags above mean as well as find more information on other formatting tags.
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