Introduction Of HTML

This is my 1st post and I would like to write more posts related to HTML. After reading this post, you can get little idea about "what is HTML". Ok ! Lets start,

In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents the Web with HTML as its publishing language.

   

H-T-M-L are initials that stand for Hypertext Markup Language (computer people love initials and acronyms -- you'll be talking acronyms ASAP). It is the language for describing structured documents as well as the language used to create web pages in the Internet. The language is based on an existing, international formatting standard SGML, Standard Generalized Mark-Up Language, which is used for text processing It is authoring language used to create documents on the web. It  is used to define the structure and layout of a web page, how a page looks and any special functions. The primary thing to keep in mind, the super magic key, is that HTML is used for meaning and CSS is used for presentation. HTML is nothing more than fancy structured content and the visual formatting of that content will come later when we tackle CSS. You might find different approaches elsewhere on the web but HTML focuses on best practice from the outset and getting into the frame of mind of doing things the right way from the start will lead to much better results in the end.

Contents Getting Started: What you need to do to get going and make your first HTML page.

• Tags, Attributes and Elements: The stuff that makes up HTML.
• Page Titles: Titles. For Pages. A difficult concept, we know…
• Paragraphs: Structuring your content with paragraphs.
• Headings: The six levels of headings.
• Lists: How to define ordered and unordered lists.
• Links: How to makes links to other pages, and elsewhere.
• Images: Adding something a bit more than text.
• Tables: How to use tabular data.
• Forms: Text boxes and other user-input thingamajigs. 
• Putting It All Together: Taking all of the above stuff and shoving it together. Sort of in a recap groove.

Q & A regarding basic HTML :

Q. I have a MAC (or PC) -- will this work on my computer?

A. Yes. HTML does not use any specific platform. It works with simple text. More on that in a moment...

Q. Must I be logged onto the Internet to do this? More specifically, will learning this throw my cost for on-line way up?

A. Neither. You can write off-line.

Q. Do I need some sort of expensive program to help me write this?

A. No. You will need notepad. You can buy those programs if you'd like, but they're not needed

Q. Is this going to require I learn a whole new computer language ?

A. No. HTML is not a computer language.