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HTML Introduction

What is HTML

HTML stands for the Hyper Text Markup Language. Web pages are written in HTML.

Quite simply, HTML files are text files, containing tags. The tags tell your web browser how to display your webpage. For example the tag <b> tells the browser to bold text. Don't worry about this for the moment you will have plenty of examples of tags as you go through the tutorial.

An HTML file has a .htm or .html file extension, for example home.html

HTML has two essential features hypertext and universality.

Hypertext means you can create a link in a web page that leads the visitor to any other webpage or anything else on the Internet. This allows information on the Web to be accessed from many different directions. For example try this link to the Google search engine.

Universality means that because HTML documents are saved as text files, virtually any computer can read a webpage. It doesn't matter if your visitors have Macintosh or Windows machines, or whether they are on a Unix box or hand-held device. The Web is open to all.