HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland. Berners-Lee is also the creator of the World Wide Web.

If you have created or are planning on creating your own home page (in GeoCities, for example), but you know little or nothing about HTML, then you have come to the right place. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a language made up of "tags". An HTML tag consists of a less-than sign (<), the name of the tag (B, for example), and a greater-than sign (>). The tag for BOLD is <B>. Each tag is usually paired with its ending tag. The ending tag is similar to the starting tag, with the exception of a forward slash (/) preceding the name of the tag. The ending tag for BOLD is </B>.

Tip: HTML is not case sensitive. You can use either capital or lower case letters for writing a tag. For the examples in the tutorials at this site, capital letters are used.

NOTE: While HTML tags are not case sensitive, file names are! There is a big difference on a UNIX machine (the system GeoCities and most other servers are run on) between "filename.html" and "FileName.html", also "image.gif" and "image.GIF".

HTML for Starters is divided up into six short chapters.

Chapter 1: First Things First
Headings
Chapter 2: Paragraphs
Line Breaks
Chapter 3: Hypertext Links
Different page, same page, and e-mail address
Chapter 4: The Font Tag
Chapter 5: Basic HTML Reference Chart
Final: Put to Use What You Have Learned
HTML Help Bulletin Board: Ask a question about how to do something with HTML. Maybe you can answer someone else's question.

The author is a member of The HTML Writers Guild

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Tip:	HTML is not case sensitive. You can use either capital or lower case letters for writing a tag. For the examples in the tutorials at this site, capital letters are used.
NOTE:	While HTML tags are not case sensitive, file names are! There is a big difference on a UNIX machine (the system GeoCities and most other servers are run on) between "filename.html" and "FileName.html", also "image.gif" and "image.GIF".