Chapter 1: Creating a Basic Page with HTML
In This Chapter
Getting the 411 on HTML and web pages
Putting HTML tags into the correct section
Integrating images and links into your page
Ensuring that your HTML is valid
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the language of the web. When you go to a web page in your web browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari, the browser downloads and displays HTML.
At its heart, HTML is just a document, much the same as a document you’d make in a word processor. A program like Microsoft Word is used to view word processor documents because it knows how to read and display them. Likewise, when it comes to the web, the web browser is the program that knows how to read and display documents created with HTML.
Word processor documents can be created and read with a single program. On the other hand, HTML documents need different programs for creation and reading; you can’t create HTML documents with a browser. You create HTML documents using a program called an editor. This editor can be as simple as the Notepad program that comes with Microsoft ...
