What do in need to crate HTML?
No special software or equipment is needed. What you all need is:
- Text Editor, Notepad (for windows), Pico (for Linux), or Simpletext (for Mac).
- Web browser. For e.g.: Internet explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Netscape, etc…
Do I need Internet Connection?
The answer is no. You need internet only to read this blog. But you don’t need a connection to create web pages. You can do it on your local machine. You need to be connected to the internet only when you need your web pages to go online. This part of making web site online can be seen later.
Why HTML is Simple?
HTML is very simple besides interesting. What makes HTML different from other conventional programming software?
- First of all HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
- HTML is static and has little programming capabilities.
- It does not show any debugging errors or warnings even if there is any syntax error.
- HTML tags are easy to remember. For e.g.: the tag used for paragraph is <p> to draw an horizontal line is <hr> and to give a line break between text is <br>
- Moreover it is not case sensitive.
Now let us understand the basic structure of html. Just relax and sit back comfortably in your chair because you are going to learn a very simple language that has very good purpose of creating great web sites. You can also have a cup of coffee if you prefer.
Words to Know:
Before we step in to learning basic html structure, let us know 3 words that could be used more frequently in the upcoming tutorials. They are:
- Tag – is a pre-defined general English term that is used to specify markup regions for the browsers. (For E.g. in our previous example)
- Element – When the tag is complete with both opening and closing tag. (For e.g. when our opening tag have its closing tag , then this set of tags is known as Element.)
- Attribute – Attribute is also pre-defined which have meaning only when combined with the html element. It is used to customize or modify the html elements. It doesn’t have any meaning when stand alone. (For e.g. Let us take body elements: <body> and its closing tag </p> Now let us think of adding some background color to our paragraph. This can be done using attribute: bgcolor=”some color name”. But it should be combined with our paragraph element like this: <body>.
To make it simple:
- Tags are single without closing tag.
- Elements are paired which have both opening and closing tags.
- Attributes are given inside the element to customize or modify it.
