What is HTML?
HTML is the "language" that web pages are written in - in fact, HTML stands for "hypertext mark-up language." But what does that mean?
- Hyper is the opposite of linear. Old-fashioned computer programs were necessarily linear - that is, they had a specific order. But with a "hyper" language such as HTML, the user can go anywhere on the web page at any time.
- Text is just what you're looking at now - English characters used to make up ordinary words.
- Mark-up is what is done to the text to change its appearance. For instance, "marking up" your text with <b> before it and </b> after it will put that text in bold.
- Language is just that. HTML is the language that computers read in order to understand web pages.
What Do I Need to Write HTML?
A computer, an Internet browser (if you're reading this web page now, you've obviously got both), and a word-processing program such as Microsoft's Notepad or WordPad, or Mac's Simple Text. Technically speaking, that's all you need.
What Can I Do with HTML? HTML coding is what makes your website look like a website, rather than just plain text. With HTML, you can:
What Can I Do with HTML? HTML coding is what makes your website look like a website, rather than just plain text. With HTML, you can:
- Create titles, headings and subheadings.
- Make a bulleted or numbered list.
- Delineate paragraphs.
- Put text in bold or italics.
- Add pictures and links to your site.
- Insert Games and videos to your site
- And much more
Do I Need to Understand HTML to Create My Website?
Actually, no. There are many website-building programs on the market that don't require knowledge of HTML at all. You tell the program what you want, and the program creates the HTML for you.
However, it's definitely to your benefit to understand how HTML works, even if you're using one of these programs, so you can take full advantage of everything they have to offer. And if you're a do-it-yourselfer, creating your own website from scratch, including the HTML code, can be a lot of fun.
However, it's definitely to your benefit to understand how HTML works, even if you're using one of these programs, so you can take full advantage of everything they have to offer. And if you're a do-it-yourselfer, creating your own website from scratch, including the HTML code, can be a lot of fun.
What do you mean "language" ?
A scripting "language" is basically like any other language. Spanish, Russian, English, German, etc. Only the language of HTML is for computers only. This why its called a "Programming language" or "scripting language". Its used for creating scripts and programming certain areas of a computer. In HTML's case its used for formatting and creating Websites and computers use to understand pages when you read them. Again to see the code behind any web page just go up in Google chrome and right click and select "Inspect Element".
How do I learn HTML?
Though many books and websites are dedicated to helping you understand code HTML. A lot of them give you the code. Here we not only do that but we can help you to start coding from scratch! We are a Completely open source website too! Any website is. Got Google Chrome? Well right click any top of a website and click "inspect element" and you'll find yourself staring at that page's entire inside code. Most websites are JavaScript included so it might be a little confusing! But don't worry. By the time your done here I'm sure you'll be fluent with HTML