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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>.
Structure of a Web Page
The structure of a simple web page is as follows:
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Page</title>
</head>
<body>
Within the body tag is where you put your content.<br>
After the end of the content you will need to close it.<br>
</body>
</html>
To compose your HTML you can use the following simple text editors: Microsoft
Notepad, Microsoft WordPad, or Microsoft Word. However, be aware that you will need to save the file as a text
file with an extension of .htm or .html. For example: "myfile.html" or
"myfile.htm". There are many HTML Editors and HTML tools
available if you want something a little more helpful in creating your
web pages.
After you have coded you web page, you will need to save it as a text
file with an .html or .htm extension. Once you have saved your web
page you can take a look at your creation within your browser by doing the following:
1) Open the browser
2) Under file, hit open file
3) Go to where the file is located and hit open (You'll find that the file will appear in your browser.
I know HTML may seem foreign to many, but if you take the time and experiment, you'll find that within a month or two, you will have mastered some of the basic elements of HTML.
But don't stop there. Continue to learn the advanced topics, to make your site a little more interesting.
About the Author:
Vickie J Scanlon -- Visit her site at: http://www.myaffiliateplace.biz
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