HTML Tutorial by Sam Slee

The purpose of HTML is to allow you to display content on the internet. Specifically, HTML allows you to label the pieces of content to say what type of content each piece is.

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It uses markup tags to identify pieces of content that you'd like to display. These identifications help programs like web browsers know what types of content you're trying to present.

This tutorial is designed to introduce you to HTML, let you know the basic parts, and then get you started on making your own web pages. Throughout the tutorial there will be small examples of HTML code to demonstrate various things you can do. Try playing with each example on your own to better understand which parts of the code create which parts of the example webpage. Also, this tutorial is designed to be skinny so that you can resize your browser window and put this beside a text editor for your own HTML coding.

When learning something new, it's always nice to have a goal in mind to see what you're trying to achieve. So, here's a little example webpage. By the end of this tutorial you'll be able to understand all of the HTML code that made it. Then, you'll be able to go on to making webpages of your own.

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If you're curious, you take a peek at the code for this webpage. Otherwise, click the link below to take the first step towards learning HTML.


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