HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is the main language used for the World Wide Web and Internet. If you do not know the difference between the two, or exactly what the WWW and Internet are, then this is an excellent course for you, because you will know that by the end of the course. A brief explanation is that the Internet is the collection of computer networks from all over the world. The World Wide Web is just a system of Hyper Text documents linked together, and is only a part of the Internet, like E-mail.

      HyperText lets people make and click on links that let others go to different Web pages, like the links used to get to this very page. HTML is also useful for its universality, which means that it can be accessed by all computers. Before HTML, most Hyper Text was specific to certain types of computers, so HTML was made. It makes things easier by being operable on all types. XHTML is very similar to HTML, and basically just lets HTML become even more universal. Certain browsers, like Netscape or Internet Explorer, read HTML slightly differently, so XHTML is more useful. By making all HTML tags (see below) lowercase, both XHTML and normal HTML can be seen, so it really isn't too difficult.

      HTML is a very important tool to learn, as the Internet is becoming increasingly useful and used. By knowing basic HTML, students will be able to share information with anyone around the world with their own Web pages.




Examples of HTML

      Hyper Text Markup Language is written with tags , which are words inside of less than (<) and greater than (>) signs. Each tag has its own use. Notepad and Wordpad are the best and most used programs to make an HTML document.
For example, if I wanted to make the word apple bolded, I would use < b > (without the spaces) right before the word, and < /b > (again without spaces inside) right after the word to stop it. The reason I had to use spaces is because this is an HTML document, so without spaces, it would actually use the tag and bold my words.
So it would end up looking like this,< b > apple < /b >, to make this. Apple

      But that alone isn't enough to make an HTML document. In order to figure out how to make one from scratch, I highly recommend taking this class.