For some reason, HTML seems to really frighten a lot of people. Some have seen complicated HMTL that’s been produced by an editor program, or they’ve clicked ‘View Source’ on a few pages and been scared by what they’ve seen.

What you have to realise, though, is that HTML was designed from the beginning to be a very simple language to learn and to use – just because automated systems for producing it have a tendency to make it over-complicated, it doesn’t mean that your code has to be that way. The best way to get started with HTML is to get over any fears you might have and just get started.

Note that you will need to save files as filename.html before you will be able to open them in a web browser. If you’re not sure how to do this with a text editor, use an HTML code editing program.
All About Tags.
NOTE: A space has been added after each < and before each > so the tags will show on an HTML page to make the tags work remove the spaces
There’s only one thing you really need to understand before you start writing pages in HTML, and that’s the tag system. Basically, tags are commands in angle brackets, with text between them. For example, here is some text in a bold tag:

< b >bold text< /b >

The first tag < b > is the opening tag.
The second tag < /b > has a slash before its name because it’s a closing tag. You can have as many tags inside other tags as you want, as long as you always remember to close the last one first. For example:

< b >< i >< u >bold, italic, underlined text< /u >< /i >< /b >
If the tags are closed in the wrong order, then the code is invalid and may not work. Read the rest of this entry