Getting Started with HTML

The basic language of the internet is html. If you canalready.LINKS-The html below will put a link to Google
do crossword puzzles, if you can write a report foron your web page when a symbol is placed after the
your teacher or boss, you can be creating websecond quote and the /a symbol
pages in a matter of minutes.Even if you're not a.---------------------------------------------a href=" google
writer or not a 'techie'. It's sort of like your first date.a---------------------------------------------To put the link on
Terrifying to think about, but not nearly as bad asthe web page you created above just copy the line
you thought when it's over.The truth is that you canbetween the dashed lines above and paste it
create your first webpage with just eight wordsbetween the body and /body tags and save it. Then
enclosed in symbols.That's right! The following words,load it or double click it as before.The tag used for
with each enclosed in symbols, make a completelinks is the a tag and it's counterpart the /a tag. As
usable webyou can see there is a little more to this tag. In the
page.-------------------------------------------htmlheadtitle/titletag you add the webpage that the link will load into
headbodydon't enclose this one, it's your content- hi (:your browser.IMAGES-If you want an image on your
body/html------------------------------------------If you copyweb page use the html tag below and place a at the
what's between the dashed lines above, openend.--------------------------------------------img
notepad,paste it into a page, enclose each word inhis is set up to put an image called mypicture.jpg
symbols and save it as anyname.htm, you can open(located on the floppy disc in drive a:) on a web
your web browser and load it just like any other webpage.Again if you just copy this (replacing
page or double click on it and it should load'mypicture.jpg' with the name of your image) and
automatically.Now, that wasn't as bad as youpaste it between the body tags the picture will
thought, was it? All you need now is to learn someappear in the browser window. (by the way if you
more of those words enclosed in symbols and you'llmake changes to the web page then save the
be a pro.Those words such as html, head, /head andchanges, you need to click the refresh button on the
html (when enclosed in brackets like these ) arebrowser to see the changes in the browser
called tags, for instance and . The ones such as htmlwindow.)Of course, there is also a lot more to html
and head are called start tags and the ones with this(It doesn't get too complex until you start making
symbol / such as /html and /head are called endtables). In fact complete books (many of them) have
tags.What you see in the web browser is what youbeen written on the subject, but if you look at the
put between the body and /body tags. You couldhtml for most web pages you will find less than ten
type an entire report or letter without knowing anydifferent tags, including the ones above.Well, that's
more than you do now.If you learn just two moreenough to get you started. If you'd like to learn more
tags you can create links and use images in yourjust send an email to I hope this has been helpful and
web pages. Also, and nearly as important, you couldencouraging.
be making changes in web pages that you may own