| Lesson No. 1
- Getting Started -
If you are at this page,
chances are that you have no or very little ideas of what HTML
is. If you are one of these
people, don't worry about it because after you finished with
this page, you won't feel so bad
about yourself.
Getting Started: A First Look at HTML
HyperText Mark-Up Language (HTML) is used for creating hypertext on the
Web.
Conceived as a semantic mark-up
language to mark the logical structure of a
document, HTML gives users a way
to identify the structural parts of a document.
Learning HTML invloes finding
out what tags are used to mark the parts of a
document and how these tages are
used in creating an HTML document.
The First Lesson
Now that you know what
HTML stands for and what it is use for, let's get started
on the first lesson.
Creating a web page is very easy. All you need is a simple
text editor, such as
NotePad.
If you haven't open
your NotePad or any other text editor, please do so right now.
After you have open your
text editor, come back to this page and lets do some
HTML programming.
To begin the lesson,
what you need to know is that if you are writing a HTML file,
the word "<HTML>"
(without quote) must appear on the first line of your text
editor. If you do not have
this, your web page will not work.
Now, after you have the
<HTML> the next thing to have is the title of your web page.
Without a title, people
will not know the name of your web page. To do a title
this is the command that
you would use, "<TITLE>" (without quote)
After you have the
title, the last thing that you must put is the command
"<BODY>" Anything
below this is the body of your HTML document(s).
Example # 1
This is what your HTML files should contain on the first three lines
in you text
editor.
<HTML>
<TITLE>
<BODY>
Example # 2
This is what your HTML files should contain at the end of your HTML code
</BODY>
</HTML>
<HTML>
= Start the HTML programming, without this, your web page will not work
<TITLE>
= Give the title of your work, web page, etc.
<BODY>
= Start the work; the body of HTML.
</BODY> = Close the body of your HTML code
</HTML> = Close off the HTML code
Now that you know
the basic commands of HTML, lets write the first HTML file.
To begin, let's
write something about what we have learn so far.
Example # 3
The first lesson on the Web
-----Copy the following below to your text editor-----
<HTML>
<TITLE>My First WebPage</TITLE>
<BODY>
HyperText
Mark-Up Language (HTML) can be written in any text editor, as
long as you
have the basic commands.
</BODY>
</HTML>
------Stop Here: Do not copy
this line-------------
Here is what it should look like on your browser
(Click on the image to get a better view of it)
So, now that you know the basic
commands of HTML, let's proceed to lesson # 2
End of Lesson No. 1
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