Another Basic HTML Tutorial
Written on October 18, 2007 by admin
Hyper Text Markup Language, in short ‘HTML’ is one of the most common and basic language available in the World Wide Web and is very easy to learn by any beginner who has to learn from scratch. However it is necessary to have a basic knowledge of browsing the web. The important lessons to be learnt are the meaning of HTML, authoring the HTML documents, HTML elements, Global structure of HTML document, Heading and Paragraph elements. For example, even for this article, we should let the computer know that there is a heading and a paragraph. Hence, we should introduce markup for the computer. A document may be made more meaningful and valuable by supplying more information by linking the words and phrases with hypertext. For example when there is a mention of product catalogue, the reader can instantly be supplied when he is interested in the catalogue by clicking the hyperlink.
Series of characters through special syntax is known as HTML document and can be stored in single file, though not necessary. Though HTML has many uses it is basically meant for Web. To publish a web page, a Web server program running on a computer with internet connection, serving web pages is essentially required. To begin with, an HTML document is to be created, before publishing it, using text editor. One should not confuse text editor with a word processor, which creates documents for printing, stored in a specific format, whereas, many programs like SimpleText for Macintosh or Windows Notepad or text editors on UNIX systems can be used for editing text files.
When the file is created in Windows, an extension of .htm or .html should be annexed just to indicate the HTML document. The HTML file can be viewed by HTML User Agent, like Web Browser. After creation an HTML document should be opened with browser and viewed. Thus an HTML document can be created easily with clear understanding of the concepts.
