Fri, 10/24/2008 - 00:21 — David Wei
HTML is one of the most fundamental and important elements for a website. Although it is easier for us to build a website nowadays, you do need to master basic HTML knowledge to edit your website templates, if you don’t want your website to stay the same as other websites. You don't need to know all of the tags, what you need to know is how to revise the code if necessary. Here is a short introduction for HTML.
What is HTML?
HTML, HyperText Markup Language, is a computer language devised to create websites. It is relatively easy to learn, with the basics being accessible to most people in one sitting; and quite powerful in what it allows you to create.
HTML consists of a series of short codes typed into a text-file by the site author — these are the tags. The text is then saved as a HTML file, and viewed through a browser, like Internet Explorer or Firefox. This browser reads the file and translates the text into a visible form, hopefully rendering the page as the author had intended. Writing your own HTML entails using tags correctly to create your vision.
Below is a simple example for the structure of a HTML files:
<html>
<head><title>simple example</title></head>
<body>This is a very simple example for HTML</body>
</html>
Open a text editor like notepad and type in above codes. Then save it as test.html and open it with your browser, and you will find the simplest web page.
The test.html file begins with a start tag and ends with the matching end tag . Normally, the tags are used as a container with a start tag and an end tag: The acts like a container for the document. The contains the title, and information on style sheets and scripts, while the contains the markup with the visible content.
You can also easily edit HTML files by using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. For example, Frontpage and Dreamweaver. But in some cases, it is more convenient to use a text editor, especially when you want to edit the files from a remote console directly.
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