Starting HTML

Beginners Course Covering the Basics of HTML

This course is for beginners starting to learn HTML and who have never written any HTML before and want to learn the basics of HTML.

This course consists of 5 short lessons containing exercises which I recommend that you do on your own computer. Is is designed to teach you all the HTML you need for making basic web pages and more even more importantly for editing and other HTML web pages.

Learning HTML isn't strictly necessary in order to make web pages or indeed a website. There are many tools (web page editors) which make leaning HTML unnecessary for making web pages.

In fact today very few people make web pages by hand coding HTML and many web masters probably couldn't.

However, if you understand basic HTML then you will find it much easier to make and edit web pages, and more importantly, to insert scripts like Google Adsense and website counters etc into your web pages.

Course features and what you will Need:

Access to The Internet
Done on Your home Computer in your own time.
Lessons are Mixture of Video and text
No software to purchase uses Notepad and any web browser.

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

Lesson1-An Introduction to HTML
Lesson2-Common HTML TAGS -Headings, paragraphs, comments
Lesson3-Formatting Text Using Fonts
Lesson4-Lists and Tables and Images
Lesson5-Anchors and Linking

Note: You may have noticed the term XHTML appearing. The HTML standard maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been through many revisions the last one being is HTML 4.01 and XHTML was meant as replacement for HTML. However HTML version 4 will now be superseded by HTML version 5.

In reality there is very little difference between HTML and XHTML and as a beginner you shouldn't worry about these differences but they 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 web 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 create web pages using a web page editor.

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:

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