Introduction
HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language is responsible for the popularity of the web today. It is an easy language to program and does not need any fancy programming applications to get it done. HTML is based on simple text (ASCII) documents that contain certain code readable to the browser. This code tells the internet browser what to do with specified images, text, or other embeded multimedia objects. By interpreting the text file, the browser knows for example where in the screen an image will be, or in what size and font a string of text will apear, etc. HTML documents are all based on tag pairs, a starting tag and an ending tag; for example: <b>Bold</b>. This example shows how text can be made bold by putting it inside the two bolding tags, this is how it looks in the browser window: Bold. Just like this pair of tags there are many more that you will be learning as you go along this tutorial. You just have to be ready with a simple text editor like note pad or simple text, and of course your browser so that you can view your progress.
Coming up next: Lesson 1, Creating a document.