Understanding the HTML Basic

Why We Need To Learn HTML

Whether you want to be a website designer, developer, internet marketer, SEO expert or want to start an online business, at first you need to know all about basic terms of HTML. Every website whether it is amazon.com or facebook.com has been structured by HTML. You can tell that if a website were a building, then, HTML would be used to make its skeleton. There are many programming language used in designing and developing a website, but we always use these language within HTML codes. You can say HTML is a container of all these type of languages used to design a dynamic and attractive websites.

What is HTML?

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is interpreted by software called web browser. There are so many web browsers in the internet world such as, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and many others. These web browsers are made to read, translate codes given in HTML document and display the web pages to users according to the commands given in this document. So this language help to display, text, images, links, flash files to users by different website browsers being used by the users.

Basic structure of HTML

Basic structure of HTML consists of HTML Tags and attribute. A Tag contains name of an element and angle brackets like this <p>. These Tags represent different part of the document. An attribute is used to format the content of an element. We will learn all about Tags, Elements and attributes in next article in detail.

What skills require learning HTML?

It is very simple and easy language as you will see in a moment. You just need general knowledge of computer and other common software such as, Microsoft Word, Notepad etc. for writing  HTML  codes, you need to have notepad or notepad plus. You can find notepad in "all programs" in you window. If you want to write your code in Notepad plus, you will have to search it on google.com and download it in your local hard drive. 

Web Standards, Technologies and Specifications 

The “World Wide Web Consortium” (w3c.org) is an international organization that develops web standards, technologies and also defines the HTML specifications. 

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