Introduction to HTML
| # Consortium.| HTML for Beginners
So you want to create a web site, but you don't know the first thing about HTML code? Well, rest assured, it isn't nearly as difficult as you think. This guide will help get you started, and teach you how to create a simple web page containing text, images, links to other web pages, and an email link. What you need for this tutorial is only a simple text editor program like Notepad or other programs that you use for writing text on your machine. If you're using Windows 95/98, just go to: Start > Programs > Accessories > Notepad First, type the first line of our web page: then type this: You can type code in capital or lower case letters. It doesn't matter. I typed them in capital to make it easy to read. Nothing has happened yet; we have just told the browsers (Netscape, Internet Explorer, and etc.) that this is a HTML document. The first <HTML> is to tell the browser that "Here's the beginning of HTML section." </HTML> tells the browsers that "Here's the end of HTML section." Inside these two tags is where you will put the contents of your web page. Notice that we have <HTML> and </HTML>. This is how we open and close HTML tags. The closing tag is always in </.....> format. In most cases, you will have to close every tag that you open. Next, add a HEAD section to your web page. <HTML> <TITLE> tells the browsers that the title of our web page is "My first page." This sentence will appear at the top of browser window. Where? Look at the top of this window (the one that you're reading) and you will see "Beginner's Guide to HTML" OK. Now, let's put in the first word that the browser will display. <HTML> |