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Learning Guide
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By Troy Porter
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Learning HTML is like learning another language, but it can beattained fairly quickly right from your computer. There are manytutorial programs that will teach you everything. HTML standsfor HyperText Markup Language and it is all about making yourletter, list, or document readable, and positioned in a certainmanner, by the computer. HTML created little "tags" that areattached to the written text, and is necessary if you want todesign your own web page because the markup tags tell the Webbrowser how to display the page. It positions the text where youwant it on the page. Without this markup language to "explain"the locations of text, it would simply appear in wrap style. AnHTML file must have an htm. Extension on the file when it iscreated, to identify it and a file can be created by using asimple text editor. HTML is the universal markup language forthe web, and it allows you to format text, add graphics, createlinks, input forms, frames and tables, etc., and save it so thatany browser can read and display. The key is learning the tagswhich are used and this is what the tutorials will teach you -all the tags and their applications.
The tags are important and are used to markup the HTML elementswhich are surrounded by two characters which direct it. Thesurrounding characters are called angle brackets, and would looklike, < and >. These usually come in pairs, one at the beginningof the "element content" or the text, and one at the end, like the house is on a hill < /b > This is a small glimpse intoHTML. But the funny thing is, just like every other part of thecomputer world, there is now a "new" HTML called XHTML. So, justwhen you think you've got it - they come up with a better one!Doesn't it figure? Not to worry, there are tutorials for bothtypes now on the web, so you can take your choice. Thenoticeable difference is that XHTML is somewhat cleaner andstricter than the HTML, but still very similar.
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