Simple HTML

HTML stands for hypertext markup language. You cannot create a site without it, so here's a small tutorial on the basics of html....

Starting Out:
Every page on your site should have the following html code:

What is all that you're asking? Well it's really simple, just follow along.

*HTML*:: As you can see, you'll begin and end your page with this code. Core Computer defines HTML the following way:

Hyper: Computer programs used to move in a linear fashion. You worked one step at a time. This before this, this before this, and so on. Hyper is the opposite of linear. This language does not work in a linear fashion it is linked information.

This means that it allows a person viewing the World Wide Web page to hop about and go anywhere, anytime they want.

Text: Text in other words English letters, is what use to write it.

Mark-up: Mark-up is like the verb it is what you do. You write in English and then mark-up what you wrote.

Language: Language for the simple reason it's a language

*META*: You want your site be found via search engines right? Well the META tags help search engines crawl your site. It's VERY important to include these into EVERY page of your site. Here's a brief description of what each META tag does:

*meta name="description" content="DESCRIPTION OF YOUR SITE"*: This is a small description of your site. Keep it short and to the point. 
*meta name="keywords" content="KEYWORDS*: Any word that's relevant to your site goes here. Make sure to separate each word by a comma.
*meta name="author" content="YOUR NAME HERE."*: Just as it says, put your name here. :)
*meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"*: This allows the html to be rendered properly.
*meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"*: Language that your site is using. En-US: English/US. Simple enough? :)

Internet Tips suggests the following when using META tags:

• Limit keywords to under 1,000 characters.
• Do not repeat keywords more than 3 times.
• Use plural keywords.
• Don't repeat keywords hundreds of times in the Metatags, alt tags, description and text.
• Include misspellings and different cases. 
• Use only the Metatags that make sense for your document.

*TITLE*: This is the title tag. Basically, you put the name of your site in between them. 

*BODY*: This is the body tag. This is where you'll put how you want your site to look, such as background color or image, font size and color, link color, etc.  If you're using CSS, do not add information to the tag. Just leave it blank. This does neat mean to erase the tag, just leave it as *BODY*..

*/BODY*: This closes the body tag and everything between it.

*/HTML*: This closes the html tag.

Now wasn't all of that VERY simple? I hope that I haven't thoroughly confused you with this tutorial. I'm providing a few links below to sites that contain FAR better html tutorials. 

HTML Tags

HTML Tutorial: A VERY GOOD html tutorial. One of the best. 

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