What Does HTML Do and What Does it Mean?
There are a lot people out there building thier own websites not understanding what it is they are actually doing.
It is important to have a general concept of what all that coding is and what it means. The coding used to build a website is known as HTML. This is how a browser reads a webpage and then interupts it into what people see in the window.
HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language.
Some Basic Things You Can Do with HTML
-change the fonts style, color, underline it, and Italic and bold it
-change the font color
-create a list
UL – for unordered list
OL – for ordered list
LI – for each line in the list
-create a table to organize your images or create a chart on your site
table – starts table
tr – starts table row
td – starts table cell
remember to end each cell and each row as well with a hash mark before the tag
-create a text link
text links are great
-add an image
img src
-create simple contact forms that include labels, radio buttons, and push buttons
-quote someone
blockquote – quoted text
-insert special characters and fractions into your text or blog post
these are just a small sampling;
&trade ™ trademark sign
&hearts ? heart
@ @ at sign
© © copyright
® ® registered trademark
¶ ¶ paragraph sign
¼ ¼ one-fourth
½ ½ one-half
¾ ¾ three-fourths
With HTML you can do a lot of different things with it within your website or even your blog. You can put images on your website and movies and video.
There is so much you can do with HTML to make your website more attractive and appealing to visitors.
But I must now caution you with this. Even tho many have found really cool things they can do with their websites using HTML coding, that it has made their sites way too wild and hard to find things.
Most people today will click away from these fancy sites, and instead be more willing to read a website that is simple and clean.
Keep this in mind while you are building your website, DO NOT get carried away with all the neat things you can do with HTML.
Keep it simple and clean.
To better understand HTML and how all this works, I highly recommend One Hour HTML
This little piece of software will save you hundreds of hours and money in learning HTML
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