Web Design/Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is composed of many things called tags. An example of a tag is &lt;tag&gt;. Tags are used to tell a browser how to format text, mark different areas, and other thing. However, more recently many HTML formatting tags such as the &lt;font&gt; tag have been removed from HTML in favour of CSS. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. We will go over that later in this chapter.

Basic HTML
Now you have to close the head of you document. That's right you need to add a &lt;/head&gt; tag. Now you need to create a body. The body is where the content that the browser displays exists. To make it you need a &lt;body&gt; tag. Now we need to close our body and end the HTML Document and a &lt;/body&gt; then a &lt;/html&gt; tag to your document. Now between the &lt;body&gt; tags type some text and save your document. When you save you document save it as "index.html". Now that it is saved load up you HTML file in a browser.

There you have created a web page. Go pat yourself on the back. It may not be much yet but you will learn more in the next chapter.