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Friday, January 7, 2011

HTML Basics

People ask me all the time for help with HTML, so I decided to create this blog where I can post my tips.  First thing I want to cover is the basics of HTML.  HTML for those who don't know stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is really not a programming language, but a markup language, and what this means, it's a set of markup tags, used to describe a web page.  These tags are usually called HTML tags.

HTML tags usually come in pairs, an start tag and a end tag or opening and ending tags.

Here's an example of a very basic HTML page, aka a web page.

<html>
    <body>
      <h1>Welcome to my page</h1>
      <p>This is my paragraph.</p>
   </body>
</html>

Easy right? <html> is the start tag and </html> is the end tag.  All this means, is that this page is an html page, hence a web page.  Try it yourself, and save the file with .html extension and then view the file in a web browser. 

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