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So you want to make a website but found out that you need to be able to read and write a document markup language called HTML before you may do so, huh? Well, I believe we may be able to help you out in that department!

HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of tags, surrounded by angle brackets. HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code (such as JavaScript) which can affect the behavior of Web browsers and other HTML processors.

HTML is also often used to refer to content of the MIME type text/html or even more broadly as a generic term for HTML whether in its XML-descended form (such as XHTML 1.0 and later) or its form descended directly from SGML (such as HTML 4.01 and earlier).

By convention, html format data files use a file extension .html or .htm.

To be able to create web documents (pages) you’ll need the following:

1. A server, preferably with your own domain, to host your site (pages). We recommend our host LunarPages. They’re cheap and very reliable.
2. A document editor, preferably a specific development editor, like WeBuilder, UltraEdit, Bluefish, Nvu, or CoffeeCup’s HTML Editor. I completely recommend Blumentals’ WeBuilder, as it can produce every web document imaginable.
3. An FTP utility. We recommend CuteFTP, CoreFTP, WS_FTP, or FileZilla (FREE). Note: Most professional document editors, like WeBuilder, have FTP built-in.

Have everything in order? Get ready to write some HTML in the next tutorial!

Further Reading:
HTML Wiki Listing
HTML Tutorial @ W3Schools

Categories: HTML, Tutorials, Web Development
Tags: html, tips, Tutorials