Ron's Guide

What is HTML? What do you need to learn it? What are the advantages of knowing it? This tutorial will answer these questions and more.

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What is HTML?

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is the building blocks for web documents.

How does it work?

HTML is made up of special tags that determine the way the page is going to be displayed. The browser reads HTML documents that contain these tags, interprets them, then outputs the result.

What do I need to learn it?

That's one good thing about HTML, you don't need much at all. A simple text editor, such as notepad, and a browser, such as Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer, is all you need to begin making webpages.

What are the advantages of knowing it?

The fact that you are in complete control of your webpages when using HTML as opposed to HTML editors such as Microsoft FrontPage is one advantage. You will know your website like the back of your hand, which will allow you to update, modify, and add to it more easily.

What can HTML do?

HTML can only be used to create static web documents. This means that the information you put on a webpage using HTML cannot be changed dynamically, you must make changes manually.

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