Introduction to HTML

Welcome to introduction to web designing. This blog post will take you through the basic of web designing in HTML and by the end of this lessons you should be able to make a simple website using HTML.

HTML is an acronym to HyperText Markup Language. This is a language used to display web content to clients. It is a client side language. Other client side languages are CSS and javascript. There are also server side languages such as PHP, ASP e.t.c.

Before you proceed there basic requirement for this tutorial. You need:

• A window operating system
• A text editor. You can use your system's notepad for the time being but you can install specialized editors like Dreamweaver from Adobe.
• A web browser e.g. Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari etc.

With all that we can start off.

The first thing we need to talk about is the HTML tag. An HTML tag is the special text that allow us show our content to the client. All tags are made up of and . is referred to as an opening tag and the referred to closing tag. For example if you want to display text as underlined this is what you will write as the code:

<u>Underlined Text here</u> 

And it will be shown as:

 Underlined Text here