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LESSON 1-01: Introduction To HTML

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In this lesson of our free online web design course, we are going to discover what constitutes a web page.

A web page like the one you are reading right now is not actually what it appears to be. What you are seeing is merely an interpretation of a series of codes known as "HTML codes".

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language): The coded format language used for creating hypertext documents on the World Wide Web and controlling how web pages appear.

Hypertext is plain text that can be formatted and that can contain hyperlinks (or simply "links") to other hypertext documents. The special markup that is used to create hypertext documents is called the "hypertext markup language" or in short, HTML.

To give you some idea of what I'm talking about, we're going to have a look at the HTML code that constitutes this page. Every modern web browser has an option to view the "source code" of the web pages that you visit. If you right click on any spot on this text, you will notice a menu item named "view source." If you click on it, you will be able to view the HTML code that this page is made up of.

Now, don't let what you see scare you. As we go along in our free online web design course, you are going to learn what that incomprehensible garbage of letters, numbers and special characters mean. HTML is not a very complicated language to learn, but of course takes quite a bit of time to master. If you do not want to go through the hassle of learning it, you may want to check out a software called SiteBuildIt, which enables you to build any kind of website with the click of a few buttons. Not only that, but it actually registers a domain name for you and provides premium web hosting for free. The software also teaches you how to profit from your website, does the market research on the supply and demand of your keywords, allowing you to devote your valuable time to the production of the content of your website.

Anyway... If you choose not to go & grab SBI, you are still going to accomplish much by devoting your time to this free website design course. It'll take time, but if you persevere you'll definitely benefit from what you learn here.

In the next lesson of our free web design course, we are going to learn some HTML tags.

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Nearby Lessons:

• Lesson 1-00 A Little Bit of History
• Lesson 1-01 Introduction To HTML
• Lesson 1-02 Fundamental HTML Tags
• Lesson 1-03 Basic Text Formatting

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