Beginner - Smith's HTML Introduction

smith · Subject: Beginner - Smith's HTML Introduction Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:52 am

You can almost use HTML in any notepad on any operating system (OS)

But, I recommend and use these on the following OS

Windows XP:

Dreamweaver and Dreamweaver CS3 both of these applications can be downloaded as a 30 day free trail.

Mac OS X:

Coda - Can be downloaded as a free 15 day trail.
Dreamweaver and Dreamweaver CS3 both of these applications can be downloaded as a 30 day free trail.

HTML:

Basic Knowledge for HTML

- What does is stand for?

- Hyper Text Markup Language

- All HTML files must end with the extension of .html or .htm but I recommend .html

- All HTML tags have < and > e.g. <head> - this is how you know its a tag.

- At the end of a tag we add a / e.g. I want to say something: Hello I added the and the text in here then the tag so its the end of the tag.

HTML Tutorial:

To simply start a .html document, open one of the following applications that I recommended for your OS or just open a notepad that lets you save as a .html file.

If using Dreamweaver/Dreamweaver CS3, start a new HTML document and then select the Code tab.

First type the <html> - this tag starts your html document.
Now type <head> - in this tag you can change the look of your document, I'll explain later in this tutorial.
Next type <title> Put your name of your page in here</title> - This is the title of your document and I also put </title> as well to tell our browser that this is the end of our title.
Now end your <head> tag, type </head>.
Now we start our document contents (What we see on the browser) type in this : <body>
To say something simply add the tag e.g. Add contents in here and close the tag with the .
Then close the <body> tag and also close your HTML document </html>

So what we have just done is:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Smith's HTML Tutorial</title>
</head>
<body>
Hi and Welcome to my tutorial
</body>
</html>

Soon I will post a complete list of HTML tags to help you out more.

Next tutorial coming soon.