
		LEARN HTML IN  8  EASY LESSONS

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language.  Basically, this means that it is a language used to 

mark a page up with hypertext. Hypertext is text that can be activated.  You've seen this

commonly called a link on a web page. But it can be other things--for now, we think of it 

as a link.


Let's start with the basics:  I sent you a file called "htmlTagList.doc"  Open it with 

Microsoft Word.  This a complete list of all the HTML tags. Use it as a REFERENCE manual. 

I bolded the tags you should learn. Ignore the rest of them for now.

	
	A tag is no more than a command inside brackets, like so: <HTML>     

It tells the browser (Internet Explorer or  Netscape, for instance) what to do.


To start an html document (that will be viewed as a web page) , we simply start a notepad 

file, like the one I'm using here.  The difference is, we must name it with an extension of 

.html>>>>>>>>    sample.html, for instance.  Always use lowercase letters when naming a file--

Its case sensitive----therefore Amazon.com is different from amazon.com    


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NOTE: I have also included EditPad.exe in this package for you to use instead of 

Notepad, if you wish. I find it to be a better text-editor, but you may use any editor

you please-- even Microsoft Word. But be careful! Word will always try to save you documents

like this: index.doc   ( a MS Word file). You must override this by choosing: 

Save As: *all files     Then you can save it by typing: index.html    If you type index.html

and save it as a word doc, it will look like this to the computer: index.html.doc   This

will prevent you from viewing your file in Internet Explorer. EditPad has a built-in feature

that allows you to save your document as an html file.
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	No one usually thinks about case when they search for a website so we should get in 

the habit of keeping our html document names all in lowercase.

You should save the file----we'll call it index.html-----before, during, and after you are done 

editing it each time.

Use the index.html file that I have provided you.  So now we have 

a new web page (potentially)--- index.html

Oh yeah, make sure you save it in a directory you can easily find it later....I recommend

saving it to the desktop or creating a new folder on your hard drive, like "webpages", or

something.     Or you can just use it where it is right now. 


Remember: TO VIEW THE HTML page you must open index.html with Internet Explorer. 

To EDIT your HTML, you must use a text editor, such as notepad, to open it.


Let's start building.  Open the next file on my disk, WEBSTUFF1.txt


