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Introduction | Tools | Structure | Structure II | Content/Text |
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HTML stands for "Hyper-Text Markup Language, and is the standard, bare-bones structural language for the pages that you can view on the World Wide Web. It is the language spoken by browsers like Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Netscape Navigator, and it is the language that you need to learn in order to write web pages. You may be under the impression that you don't have to learn HTML in order to create a web page, and you'd be right. There are all sorts of programs available to help you make web pages, and all kinds that can make them for you with a few simple clicks. I offer this tutorial because it is better to learn the code than to start out with an editor. An editor can restrict you, and can cause you to develop bad habits that will limit your design capabilities. I know, because it happened to me. When I first started, I was using a program called Netscape Composer, which came bundled with the browser package called Netscape Communicator. My first pages were horrible, and I won't even link to them here [yes, they are still up - a tribute to my own learning curve], and I developed a number of bad habits, such as using fonts hardly anybody had, or putting garish, overly busy backgrounds behind thin, light text - that sort of thing made my pages virtually unreadable. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm going to teach you to avoid. A lot of the tutorials out there will tell you things like "HTML is your friend". I don't agree. I think HTML is your tool, and that you should treat it as such. This is something that you can learn to help make communication across distance and time a good deal easier. It sounds daunting, but don't worry, HTML isn't very complicated at all.
Soon we'll get to the basics - the
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