HTML Basics
by Andy Rush

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the programming language used to create web pages. The language consists of different commands called tags. These tags are used to display text, graphics, links and movies in web pages. This document is designed to introduce you to the basic tags, and the structure of HTML documents. These days, you don't have to know HTML to make web pages. However, it's not a bad idea to have a basic understanding of it.

We will use a building block approach to creating a web page. The program that we use to create this document is Notepad. To start Notepad go to:

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We will start with the minimum "code" that is needed to produce an HTML document. The page will actually start out blank, but we will add components to develop it into a "multi-element" HTML document.