HTML

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Web and HTML. With just a little
bit of knowledge, some practice, and something to say, you can either
build your own little piece of cyberspace or expand on work you’ve already
done. The best way to start working with HTML is to jump right into it.
HTML is Hypertext Markup Language, a notation developed in the late 1980s
and early 1990s for describing Web pages. HTML is now enshrined in numous standard descriptions (specifications) from the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C). The last HTML specification was finalized in 1999.
Special instructions in HTML permit text to point (link) to something else.
Such pointers are called hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are the glue that holds the
World Wide Web together. In your Web browser, hyperlinks usually appear in
blue and are underlined. When you click one, it takes you somewhere else.
Hypertext or not, a Web page is a text file. You can create and edit a Web page
in any application that creates plain text (such as Notepad). When you’re get-
ting started with HTML, a text editor is the best tool to use. Just break out
Notepad and you’re ready to go. Some software tools have fancy options and
applications to help you create Web pages, but they
generate the same text files that you create with plain-text editors.