Basic HTML

Basic HTML

Basic HTML -- Let's be clear on the basics before we go forward. If any of these ideas are not clear you may get confused later so, to be clear here are the rock-bottom HTML basics:

Basics of HTML -- 1,2,3

1) A Web Page is just plain a plain-text document which contain special HTML "tags". An HTML tag is a special word surrounded by "Greater Than" and "Less Than" brackets like this: <font>
Web pages are usually given the file extension .htm

2) Web pages can be created and edited in simple text editors such a Notepad!

3) HTML Tags can provide simple formatting as well as links to other web pages. This is the "HyperText" part of "HTML" and the result is a "Web" of linked pages across the Whole Wide World (www).

Now, let's get started!

Now that you're totally clear on the HTML basics, it's just a matter of getting your hands dirty a little playing with some HTML Tags! So start up