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Question: What is html? |
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Answer: Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the language that runs the Web. |
HTML is a programming language that formats your web pages and makes the hypertext links interactive. There are many different ways to generate HTML - from typing the actual HTML codes into a text editor to using HTML editors that generate the codes for you.
Unfortunately things don't always look the same for all browsers on all computers when using HTML - this is especially evident when using some HTML editors. Establishing a set of generate standards takes time and HTML was no exception. Netscape and Internet Explorer (the two most popular web browsers) have tried to anticipate new standards and have developed some HTML codes of their own (hoping to influence the future of the web standards).
I've written a Basic HTML tutorial that has side by side examples of the codes and what the codes do. This site can be accessed here.
With the really old word processors - we use to type a command to start boldfacing and then enter a corresponding command to stop boldfacing. HTML is very similar in concept. HTML uses tags to start and stop certain formatting commands. These tags are inside of the less than and greater than sign <example>.
A few examples are below.
| HTML | what it looks like |
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| <b>example of bold</b> | example of bold |
| <i>example of italic</i> | example of italic |
| <h2>example of heading 2</h2> | example of heading 2 |
| <center>example of center</center> | |
| <big>example of big</big> | example of big |
| example of <hr> |
Question: What are some good HTML editors?
- Answer: There are many. Dream Weaver by Macromedia, Front Page by Microsoft, Page Mill
by Adobe, Netscape has a portion built in called Composer, are a few that come to mind. There are
others and this is no recommendation by any means.
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