What is HTML?
Hypertext Markup Language, or HTML, is the base platform code for website design. This is the language that is used to design pages on the internet, and transform them from a blank white page to pages full of colorful text, background images, decorated links and more.HTML is the code you should start out with, and although it can seem a little confusing at first, the same basic properties apply in all HTML codes, and you'll soon become very familiar with it.
First things first, tags. What are tags? Tags are the beginning and ending of a code, and if you'll take a look at your keyboard, you'll notice the angled brackets above the comma and period. These are your tags. < is your starting tag, and > is your closing tag. The commands you put inside these tags are what the computer will recognize and use to decorate your page.
A webpage is seperated into two sections, the head and the body. When you start your page, you start by defining the head section. This is where your page title will go, the name that appears on the taskbar when someone visits your page. Many other codes, especially javascripts, require you to add certain codes to the head section, so it's very important to always know where a certain code is supposed to be placed. To start your page, use this code:
<head>
<title>YOUR PAGE TITLE</title>
</head>
<body>
You'll notice in the above code the use of the / key. This is used to define the end of a code. In the above, you have defined the head section of the page, then started the title and ended the title. Then you've defined the end of the head section, and the start of the body of the page. All caught up? Good, now we can move on to the actual codes. Head to the rest of the HTML menu.