What is an HTML?

An HTML or Hyper Text Mark-up language is simply a format of programming language that the browser understands and displays as images, text or a combination of the two. With HTMLs you can do several things such as advertising for a business, creating your own personal space on the web, to just expressing yourself online. In this site, I will help you to design your first webpage. It won't be spectacular but it will help you get the basic principals of creating a webpage. Place a < or > at the beginning and ending of each of these commands.

Lesson one:

The basic TAGS used for the base of the webpage are as follows:

The basics
• HTML
• HEAD
• TITLE
• /TITLE
• /HEAD
• BODY
• /BODY
• /HTML

  and that is all that is needed to get you started.

  All text, or images that are to be displayed on your webpage must be written between "BODY" and "/BODY".

  The title of the page will appear at the top of the browser box. It will say what you typed between "TITLE" and "/TITLE".

  For now we will try only simple text webpages then will progress to adding images, changing the background color, and if we have time, adding sound that will play automatically once the page is finished downloading.

  Here are some websites you can go to if you need more info on creating a web page.

• Creating a web page
• Help with HTML code
• Arachnoid
• WWW for Newbies
• U of M how to page
• Html made easy
• Lots of links
• Copyright information for the web

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