The WebMaster's Journal » Starting HTML http://www.thewmjournal.com Helping put the 'Master' in WebMaster Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:42:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Starting HTML http://www.thewmjournal.com/2009/09/04/starting-html/ http://www.thewmjournal.com/2009/09/04/starting-html/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:49:25 +0000 misterwebtips http://www.thewmjournal.com/?p=72 HTML is the basic web design language, standing for HyperText Markup Language.  In its basic form it is comprised of merely tags.  Tags design the web page and can manipulate the text within it.  HTML tags all use the same style “<tag>”, where the command is surrounded by a less than “<” and greater than “>” sign.  To demonstrate HTML web design I will use the “<b>” bold tag as an example.  To make a word bold you need to surrounded the words or letters you want bold with the “<b>” bold tag and its ending tag “</b>”.  All ending tags have the same style using the backslash before the command in the tag.

<b>Bold text</b> and not bold text.

HTML result:

Bold text and not bold text.

Anything inbetween the starting tag and ending tag will be modified appropriately.

Something to note, not all tags have an ending tag.  A tag that can operate independently does not require an ending tag.  Such a tag is the “<br>” break tag, which will skip the current line and start a new one.

This is one line <br> and this is a second line.

HTML result:

This is one line
and this is a second line.

Now to test out your HTML web design skills you just have to pull out your favorite text editor such as notepad and insert the code then saving it as a .html file and open it in your favorite browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer.  To explore HTML and web design further it is a good idea to learn all the tags available, you can start here.

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