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HTML - What Is It?
By Vickie J. Scanlon


When creating a website, there is one coding language that you should become acquainted with to help you to progress in your online business. The language is HTML.

Many start with a coding program that is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) software. In fact, I've used FrontPage, but But even FrontPage has progressed beyond basic HTML - to include CSS into their software mix. Thus, if you want to edit your web pages, you may well need to understand the meanings of some of those tags.

With that being said, the longer you are online, the more you will want to become familiar with basic HTML. Why? If you want to put an article onto a free directory or Blogger for that matter, you see html tags that they may want you to put into place. So, let's take a quick look at HTML.


What Is HTML?

HTML (hypertext market up language) is a coding language that tells your web browser how to format and display your page for viewers. As you will see from the simple commands that follow, HTML requires a beginning tag and a closing tag.

Here are some basic commands:

First, you need to know that most commands have an opening and closing tag, with one most notable exception- the line break <br>.

Some of the common commands you will need are:

Bold tag =<b> with a closing </b>
Italics tag= <i> with a closing <i>
indent tag: <blockquote> with a closing </blockquote>
Anchor tag: <a href="http://yourdestinationurl">Click here to go to page</a>
Bullet List tag: <ul><li>First Line of bullet list</li></ul> For each line you add you will need a open <li> and closing </li> command. Note the list begins with <ul> and closes with </ul>.