{} Html'ing & Basic Codes {} Basic coding HTML for beginners

** I was looking through the tutorials page and I saw one tutorial on beginning HTML, I thought I would expand a little on it and show ya some basic codes you can use for your website if your beginning HTML! **

Beginning HTML

HTML isnt all that hard. Once you get the hang of it, its quite a breeze, but sense your starting out new and would like some basic help on how to do simple things regarding HTML heres a little help for you! First off, lets start out with what HTML means and what you need to write it.

* HTML - Hypertext Markup Language which is a software language used to create websites. HTML can be written in something as simple as WORDPAD or in any webdesigning program such as dreamweaver, front page or any other web based program used to create HTML.

* HTML uses a thing called 'tags'. A tag will always begin with a less than sign, like this: <. The tags will end with a greater than sign, like this: >. There will always be something put between those tags to give a certian effect. For example if you wanted to BOLD somthing the tag would look like this:

This will -bold- your desired text!<b> BOLD </b>

Simple see! Now, NOTE there is always a closing tag. For this you need to have a closing tag especially with the below codes, otherwise all your text on your webpage will appear bold. Below is a small list of codes you can use giving you certian effects

Simple Codes That REQUIRE End tags

<b> BOLD</b> <i>Italic </i><u> Underline</u> Simple Codes That DONT require End tags<br> - adds a space between text<hr> - adds a line/break between text<p> - makes a paragraph