What is HTML?
Simply put, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a formatting language that tells a computer how to display a web page. HTML documents, themselves, are plain text files (ASCII) with special tags that a web browser knows how to interpret and display on a computer screen.
The following lessons aim to teach you how to create web pages by hand. There are software applications available that allow you to create web pages without coding HTML. However, covering the basics of coding HTML will grant you a better understanding of how HTML works and expound upon what you are able to do with it within such applications (or by hand). With a knowledge of HTML, you will not be limited to a particular program's features.
The practice exercises in these lessons are designed to run from any desktop computer with an Internet browser; you will not need access to a web server.
