What is HTML?

Lesson briefly present your new friend, HTML.

What is HTML?

HTML is the "language" of your browser.

To shorten a long history, HTML was invented in 1990 by a scientist Tim Berners-Lee. The aim was to facilitate the scientists at different universities to gain access to other's research documents. The project became a bigger success than ever imagined Tim Berners-Lee. By inventing HTML he laid the foundations of the Internet as we know it today.

HTML is a language that allows the presentation of information (eg scientific research) on the Internet. What you see when you browse a page of HTML code interpretation by the browser. To see the HTML code on the Internet, simply click the "View" in the top menu of your browser and select "Source".

View source For the untrained eye, HTML code looks very complicated but this course will help in its understanding.

What can I use HTML?


If you want to do web pages, there is no other way than HTML. Even if you have to take sides, such as Dreamweaver, basic knew about HTML your life easier and improve your website. The good news is that HTML is easy to learn and use. Within two lessons from now you will learn how to make your first website.

HTML is used to create web pages. It is as simple as that!

Okay, but what is H-T-M-L? 

HTML stands for "HyperText Mark-up Language" - now you know more than you need at this stage. However, for the good order, explain exactly what that means.

• Hyper is the opposite of linear. In the good old days - when the mouse was something the cat chased - computer programs linearly: when the program launched per share went to the next line, just after the next and so on. But HTML is different - you can go wherever and whenever you want. For example, you do not have to visit MSN.com before HTML.net.
• Text - text. 
• Mark-up (raise) is what you do with the text. Up the text as you do with text editors with headings, bullets and bold text and so on.
• Language (language) is what HTML is. It uses many English words. 

In this tutorial you will learn the so-called XHTML (Extensible HyperText Mark-up Language) which, in short, is a new and more structured version of HTML.

Now you know what is HTML (and XHTML), so get started is what we really all about: creating websites.