HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language or HTML for short is primarily a standard markup language for documents on the World Wide Web. HTML is the language of the web, many webpages are written in HTML. HTML is a set of tags using angle brackets that together create a structure for a web browser such as Internet Explorer to follow. It is important to point out that Hyper Text Markup Language is not a programming language which it is often referred to as. HTML is a markup language, which uses a set of markup tags to describe webpages.

HTML Tags
HTML tags, also referred to as Markup Tags are keywords surrounded by angled brackets to create the structure of a webpage. Tags appear in pairs - One to open a statement and one to close the statement. See below for example of tag describing an action to make the text within a webpage appear in a bold format:

<p><b>Hello World</b> How are you today</p>

In this example <b> is the opening tag for a format "bold" action, it appears just before the statement that is intended to appear bold. </b> A closing tag will always begin with the back slash symbol, it basically rephrases the opening tag statement although it is closing the request. Within Hyper Text Markup language it is important to remember that for every opening tag markup tag statement, there must be a closing tag, otherwise in this example if the bold tag wasn\'t closed then the rest of the text within the website would appear bold.

The example above is written within the two sets of tags <p> </p> These refer to the "Paragraph" request whereby when fully displayed on a webpage the "Hello World How are you today" statement will appear on a new paragraph line, separate from the other content within the webpage.

There are a wide range of tags that are used to structure a webpage in anyway the creator requires, for example you can center a chunk of content on a page, change it to the italic format, underline, insert images and much more. The HTML language is a flexible and straight forward language for designing webpages, it is also easily read by all web browsers, it is literally the language of the web. The best thing is you dont need to buy expensive programming platforms or programs with HTML all you need to write a webpage is a simple text editor such as Notepad, which is available on your computer.