Part 1: Introduction

Before I start the whole tutorial thing, I’d like you to try something out, just to get a feel.
Below, is a link, and if you have an email client setup, it should open an email which will be addressed to me.

Hello, click me!

What was that, you wonder? That was HTML doing it’s job, a very simple function using the anchor tags. But more on that later. HTML is a language. It is a language that Internet browsers (like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) read and turn it into websites that you see all the time. When a web page is loading, it is receiving HTML and changing it into what you see on your screen. This process is called parsing.

Anyway, enough about that. Now, the link above is a simple example of HTML, if you really want a taste of what makes a website, go to any website that you visit alot, click “View”, then click “View Source.” Out will pop a window of boggling code. That is what makes a website. That is the language of the web.

Nowadays, most people make websites, blogs, etc. through “Website Builders”. They allow you to make a website with no knowledge of HTML. So, what’s so good about learning HTML, then? Why should you bother learning it, when you can just go to http://www.webs.com/ and make your own website, free of charge and free of coding? (By the way, I encourage readers to try out http://www.webs.com/, it is a great site for building your first website, but more on that later.) Because- wait, I can’t answer that for you. Why HTML rather than website builders?

Why?

And how do you start learning HTML if you get dizzy from looking at the source code you viewed earlier. Don’t worry, if you are feeling like you don’t understand any of this. There are HTML basics we will go over in the following weeks, and hopefully, you’ll be able to look HTML in the eye, and say “Hyper-Text Markup Language”-

-and really know what your saying.

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Excerpt from www.nateeo.blogspot.com