Website Creation - Basics of How to Create HTML For Beginners
There is this great fear with this, people think that only technical geeks can possibly understand how to build a website.
So, what is it? HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
This form of coding is just some instructions to the various internet browsers of how you would like your website to look like.
It is done by the use tags which come in pairs, for examplebold .
Please note, don't leave a space like I have, I'm just illustrating a point.
Here we are instructing the browser to bold the text between the tags.
Any text that is not between these tags won't be in bold.
Also, notice that the opening tag is slightly different from the closing one with a forward slash.
It is possible to do away with learning about HTML and just use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editor.
This software is just like operating a word processor, you just type your content and it will create the HTML for you! However, there will be times when you will need to know some coding, hence the need to know some of the basics.
Here are some basic tags that every website will have.
oand- This is the opening and closing tag and lets the browser know the format of your website.
oand- The title and meta tags will be included here.
oand- This is obviously where the title of your website appears and it can be viewed on the tab of your browser.
oand- The content of your website will be within these tags.
Once you know a few of the basics of HTML, you would have done more than most people in understanding your web business.
Understanding the basics of how to build a website can only help you achieve your online goals.