TUTORIAL 1

WHAT IS HTML?

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

It is the standard markup language used to create web pages.

A markup language is a set of markup tags

HTML documents are described by HTML tags

Each HTML tag describes different document content

It is used by most websites to create visually engaging webpages, user interfaces for web applications, and user interfaces for many mobile applications

HTML markup consists of several key components, including those called tags (and their attributes), character-based data types, character references and entity references. 

We are here to learn HTML. 

WHAT WE NEED TO START WITH HTML?

Notepad is a common text editor on Windows-based computers (usually found under the Programs > Accessories menu) 

Mac OSX computers come bundled with TextEdit 

But any program that lets you fiddle with text will do. 

LETS BEGIN !

Type this in to your text editor: 

My First HTML Page Welcome here 

Now create a folder called “html” wherever you like to save files on your computer and save the file as “myfirstpage.html”. 

It is important that the extension “.html” is specified
Some text editors, such as Notepad, will automatically save it as “.txt” otherwise. 

You also need to ensure that your file is being saved as plain text. 

Make sure you check the “Plain text” format option before creating a new file. 

Open a web browser and type in the location of the file, you just saved (e.g : “C:\html\myfirstpage.html”), in the address bar and hit return. 

Alternatively, go to the File menu of the browser, select Open, and browse for the file. 

Here we have created a very simple webpage of our own. Its that easy....

You may be tempted to use a dedicated software program such as Adobe Dreamweaver. 

You should be very careful when using these programs, especially if you are a beginner

Software programs such as these will never give you the same control over a web page as coding by hand. 

If you do decide to use specialized code-editing software, we recommend one in which you are still coding by hand.