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