It is the programming language that is used to create web pages.
We will now create the most basic possible webpage.
HTML is normally written in a program called Notepad.
When you are saving the file, you need to go to File > Save As.
You need to call the file .htm or .html, this is the extension of the
filename, and basically tells the computer that this file is a webpage,
and not an excel spreadsheet or word document. It means that the computer
will use Internet Explorer or Firefox or another Browser to open it.
HTML is written using Tags. A tag is a predefined instruction to the
Web Browser to tell it some information on displaying the webpage.
This is the most basic set of tags that you need to define a page.
Tags have angle brackets (greater than / less than) around them.
They have an opening tag and a closing tag.
Opening tags have a word in them.
Closing tags have the same word, but with a back slash \ infront of the
word.
It does not matter if the words are in lower case or UPPER CASE or Both.
Some tags do not have a close tag to go this them.
<BR> does not have a close tag to go with it
<BR> means line break means that the typing after it will appear
on the next line when it is on the web.
Now create a webpage using the code above and <BR>.
I don't feel we should go into HTML too much. Any more information than
this should be in a Web Design course. I will write my own Web Design
course here at some point when I have time.