HTML is a language that defines the internal structure of web documents, or put more simply it tells the webrowser software how to display the page.
HTML is comprised of a number of tags that are placed around text to tell the web browser what to do with it.
The <html> tag tells the browser that this page is in html, a bit like a person saying to you "Hi I speak English!"
Almost all tags in html are followed by a closing tag to tell the browser that it has finished using that tag. A closing tag always has a / and looks like this: </html>
A few HTML tags do not a closing tag and they are listed below:
<br> - Line break
<hr> - Horizontal rule
<vr> - Vertical rule
Why do you think these tags don't need a closing tag?
2. Save your file - YES even though it is still blank
- create a folder to keep all of your website files in. This is very important you will understand why later on.
- the first page in a website should always be called index.html
- make sure that you choose the file type: All files
3. Now that you have saved your webpage, you can:
- find the file through my computer
- double click to open it in explorer
- everytime you make a change in notepad, save in notepad
- press F5 in explorer to see if your change has worked
4. Use Alt and Tab to switch between application, it is quicker.
<html>
<head><title>This allows you to put text in the blue bar at the top of the web browser </title></head>
<body>
</body>
</html>