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HTML is the basic language of the World Wide Web. If you are interested in creating webpages, HTML is the first thing you should learn.
To create HTML documents as instructed by this tutorial, all you need is a basic text editing program such as Notepad (for Windows) or SimpleText (for Apple Macintosh). Save the documents you create as ABCD.html (or ABCD.htm), where the variable "ABCD" is whatever title you choose to give the document. The ".html" (or ".htm") extension is required to indicate to a web browser that it is an HTML document.
HTML is an acronym for HyperText Markup Language. It is a set of tags for marking up documents so that they may be read and displayed by web browsers. A tag is a character or set of characters inside two angle brackets: < and >. For example, if you want to indicate that a word should be displayed by a web browser as bold, then you would place a bold tag on either side of that word as follows: <b>bold</b>
The next page provides an overview of the basic tags necessary for creating HTML documents. The pages after that take you step-by-step through the creation of a webpage. This is not a comprehensive guide to HTML, but an introduction designed to teach you what you need to know to create webpages in a short amount of time.
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