Learn Basic HTML Complete Course part 1

 Introduction of HTML

HTML – HyperText Markup Language – The Language of Web Pages on the World Wide Web. 

🔹HTML is a text formatting language.

URL – Uniform Resource Locator.

Browser – A software program which is used to show web pages.

W W W – World Wide Web

Brief History of HTML

HTML was created by Berners-Lee in late 1991.

Tim Berners-Lee is known as father of HTML. The first available description of HTML was a document called "HTML Tags" proposed by Tim in late 1991. The latest version of HTML is HTML5, which we will learn later in this tutorial.

"HTML 2.0" was the first standard HTML specification which was published in 1995. HTML 4.01 was a major version of HTML and it was published in late 1999. Though HTML 4.01 version is widely used but currently we are having HTML-5 version which is an extension to HTML 4.01, and this version was published in 2012.

Choosing Text Editor

There are many different programs that you can use to create web documents. 🔹HTML Editors enable users to create documents quickly and easily by pushing a few buttons. Instead of entering all of the HTML codes by hand. These programs will generate the HTML Source Code for you.

🔹NotePad is the standard text editor that comes with the microsoft windows operating system. To start NotePad in windows 9x or XP follow the steps bellow: Click on the “Start” button located on your Windows task bar. Click on “Programs” and then click on the directory menu labeled “Accessories”. Locate the shortcut “NotePad” and click the shortcut once.

Upon completing this section, you should be able to 

   1. Choose a Text Editor.

   2. Create a Basic Starting Document.

   3. Understand and set Document Properties.

   4. View Your Results in a Browser.

Features of HTML

🔹It is a very easy and simple language. It can be easily understood and modified.
🔹It is very easy to make effective presentation with HTML because it has a lot of formatting tags.
🔹It is a markup language so it provides a flexible way to design web pages along with the text.
🔹It facilitates programmers to add link on the web pages (by html anchor tag) , so it enhances the interest of browsing of the user.
🔹It is platform-independent because it can be displayed on any platform like Windows, Linux and Macintosh etc.
🔹It facilitates the programmer to add Graphics, Videos, and Sound to the web pages which makes it more attractive and interactive.
🔹HTML is case-insensitive language, which means we can use tags either in lower-case