The Complete Beginners Guide to HTML

This tutorial is written from the ground up for complete beginners to the world of programming. Obviously if you are familiar with some programming languages this will be somewhat easier.

If you are new to programming do not get discouraged. I myself tried Python a couple of times but I could never get past  my first tutorial. If you already know a programming language then this can also be useful. This tutorial aims to teach you how to make a simple website. Expect more tutorials on setting up a server.

BTW This tutorial is written for Windows users, I don't own any Apple device, but hey, it might happen someday! Also, most of the stuff should work for Mac.

Step 1 Getting to know HTML

HTML (HyperTextMarkupLanguage) is a language used to make websites. Please remember that is a MARKUP Language it doesn't calculate anything, it only displays things. Markup languages format content. They change how the content looks.

Tags are ways to tell the computer what to display. You use tags to format the content that you want to display. I will explain...

Comments

[Zoidburger]

I figured it out, on a Mac all I have is Textedit. Just in case anyone else out there is trying to do this, I'll explain. You have to format Textedit for programming, real simple. Go to Preferences> New Documents, and click "Plain Text" instead of "Rich Text", then go to Preferences> Open and Save, and click the first two boxes, "Ignore Rich Text commands in HTML" and "Ignore Rich Text commands in RTF files". Voilå! It works! :)

[Zoidburger]

Didn't work for me :( But I am on a Mac, so thats probably why. After I open it as a .html, it just shows the code in Firefox...

[vishalapr]

Nice picture for the intro :)