Basic HTML Tags For Beginners

HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language is the markup language that is predominantly used in web pages. It is the one which tells the computer how information contained in the page is to be displayed in your web browser.

Learning how to write HTML codes is an important skill that any web designer should have. Below is a list of the most common HTML tags used to help beginners become familiar with this language.

1. <HTML></HTML>- are the opening and closing tags used at the beginning and end of each HTML file.

2. <HEAD></HEAD> – comes after the <HTML> tag and it is where information that is not displayed on the website can be found. It includes META tags, style sheets and Java Scripts.

3. <TITLE></TITLE> – is enclosed within the HEAD tags and it is where the title of the web page is placed.

4. <BODY></BODY> – it is within these tags that the things displayed on the website can be found.

5. <EM></EM> – the tag stands for emphasis. It replaced the <I></I> tags which were used to make the text inside the tags italicized.

6. <STRONG></STRONG> – are tags used to make the text within them bold.

7. <H1></H1> to <H6></H6> – are used for headers. Placing text within any of these tags makes the font larger or smaller than the normal text and bold. Search engines can sometimes place more weight on the text contained between the ‘H’ tags.

8. <P></P> – placing text within these tags turns them into a single paragraph. A single line break is automatically added below the last line of the displayed text.

These are just a few of the many HTML tags used today. Learning HTML is like learning a foreign language – and to the novice, you can not get much more foreign than HTML. In order for you to become proficient in any ‘foreign’ language, you must practice, practice, practice.

When I need to add a particular element to one of my web pages, and I can not recall which tags do what, I’ll head over to one of a couple web sites I refer to in my HTML emergencies.

One is http://www.htmldog.com/ and another is probably the best for learning anything about creating web sites properly. It is called W3 Schools http://www.w3schools.com/. You can not get a better price either – FREE!

While the afore mentioned resources are possibly the best in what they do, they are in text form and sometimes it is easier for some to look over someones shoulder in order to witness how things are done instead of just reading about them.

I offer a basic HTML video course (http://basichtmlvideotutorials.com/) that might be just what you need to help bridge what you read about in these web sites to seeing the actual application at work.

Thanks for stopping by and reading my post.

Steve D.

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