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Learning HTML


What Is HTML?


Computers cannot simply understand the english language, they need there own language to funtion properly. This is why that all webpages are compossed of HTML. HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language. It is basically just a language that the computer can understand, and translate into a webpage. The HTML language consists of many commands used to alter the look of the webpage. Nearly all HTML tags require a closing tag, as the saying goes, "if you open it, close it". Here you will learn the basics of HTML. These basics will allows for you to create a webpage and eventually lead you to more advanced HTML skills.

Webpage Structure


All pages use a basic struture in which the HTML is used. To make the HTML structure of a webpage you need to use the following HTML tags. The body tag has all of the commands for background, background color, text color, and link color. These commands change the entire view of the webpage.

< html >
< head >
< title > TITLE < /title >
< /head >
< body filename.ext bgcolor=#oooooo link=#oooooo text=#oooooo>
</body>
</html>

Basic Parts Of a Webpage


As with the webpage structure, all webpages have some basic parts to them. The following is an explination of some basic parts. The most important part of a webpage is the < html > tag. This tag basically tells the computer that the lanuage to read will be the HTML Language. This tag is closed with the < /html > tag. The next most important part is the < body > tag. Nearly everything thing that shows up on a webpage will be contained within the body portion of the webpage. The closing tag for the body paragraph is the </body> tag. The two parts of a webpage are the head and the body.

< html >
< head >
< title > Title < /title >
< /head >
< body >
< /body >
< /html >

Links


Some Helpful Webpage Sites On HTML


A Beginners Guide To HTML
Learn HTML Quickly By David Marshall
The ABC's of HTML

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