Starting HTML/XHTML: Beginners Learn the Basics

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HTML ( HyperText Markup Language), is a mark-up languages used to encode Web pages. It provides the web browser with information for laying out and presenting the web page.

Starting HTML/XHTML is a 5 part series for beginners wanting to learn html, and who have no HTML experience.

The Series is designed to cover enough HTML for Webmasters who will be creating their website using WYSIWYG web page editors like FrontPage, DreamWeaver, Trellian Webpage etc but would like to learn how to manually edit web pages to add scripts like Google Adsense or a web counter etc.

I would recommend that you follow through in order but the links to the individual sections are also given below.

• Part1-An Introduction to HTML-Your first  Web Page
• Part2-HTML TAGS Explained
• part3-Formatting Text - Fonts
• part4-Lists and Tables and Images
• part5-Anchors and Linking

Note: You may have noticed the term XHTML appearing. XHTML is the replacement for HTML.

The HTML standard maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been through many revisions the last one being is HTML 4.01. HTML is will in the future be superseded by XHTML which to all intents and purposes is an HTML revision.

In reality there is very little difference between HTML and XHTML and these are covered in HTML to XHTML in 10 steps and XHTML .

Web Page and HTML editors

Although it is possible to make a web page using simple text editors like Notepad or Word these tools are only suitable for very basic web pages.

 Anyone who wants to make a website requires a suitable page editor. For an explanation of web page and HTML editors see the web Page and HTML editors .

Once you are happy with HTML/XHTML you may want to see how to make web pages using a web page editor. This is a short course covering similar ground but without the need for HTML/XHTML.

HTML Books

Online Tutorials are fine for learning the basics, but I find that when you need to get down to some serious study then a book is usually better. I tend to use them as a quick reference when I need to do something. You will find a huge selection of books at Amazon:

• HTML Books Amazon USA
• HTML Books Amazon UK

Web www.build-your-website.co.uk

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