What HTML means?

HYPER
TEXT
MARKUP
LANGUAGE

To write a web page you have to use an editor of textual or graphic type.
It's better to use a textual editor in order to learn HTML code.
A very good textual editor is HTML-kit. It's free and you can download it here.
A good graphic editor is Dreamweaver. (But it isn't free!)
The simplest textual editor to write a file HTML (if you use Windows) is Note pad. (Open it with Start - Programs - Accessories - Note pad )

HTML tags are sintactic elements used to mark-up HTML elements, like

Code (what you write)	Output (what the browser shows)
<b> Hello </b> to everybody!!!	Hello to everybody!!!

The two characters "<" and ">" are called angle brackets.

The start tag is <b>

The end tag is </b>

The html file (or web page) is an object between <html> ….. </html> tags

In the web page there are 2 sub-objects: a head and a body.

The head is an object between <head> ….. </head> tags.

The head contents informations about the page.

The content of the page is between the tags: <body> ….. </body>

In the body object there are several objects: text, images, anchors, tables, forms, list ....

Every object has different tags.

We'll learn it!

Write this text:

<html>
<body>
 This is my first web page (or whatever you want to write)
</body>
</html>

Save the file as index.htm (Be sure to choose All files when you save it!)
Open the saved file with a double click on it and look. The browser will open automatically. To see the code HTML, click on the menu View - HTML
If ok, upload this file in your work area (Laboratories) in the Comenius site
(open the Personal pages Administration and Upload your file)
The file you have just created will take place of the Temporary Home Page.
Write a message in the forum "The web page" to inform that your page is done!