What's HTML?
Hyperlink Markup Language

The World Wide Web is the fastest growing part of the Internet, and thousands of new sites are added daily. As business and commerce begin to embrace the Web more fully, HTML skills are a wonderful enhancement to your resume. HTML is the public standard markup language most commonly used for writing Web pages. It is a higher-level mark-up language which describes formatting and hypertext links, and defines different components of a document.

Tags, Tags, Everywhere!

In a HTML document, tags are used to mark up the document. An HTML document has two parts - head and body. The head is where to enter the title of the page, which tells the Web browser what information is about in this HTML document. Title is not part of the text. It shows on the title bar of the browser window. Tags used in this part are:

   
   <HTML>       </HTML>      --Indicate to Browser this is a HTML document

   <HEAD>       </HEAD>      --Indicate to Browser this is the HEAD portion

   <TITLE>      </TITLE>     --Enter the title here

   <P>          </P>         --Indicate a paragraph

   <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE>--Indent a paragraph of te
xt.
   <PRE>        </PRE>       --A useful tag to display the message on the
  
                                                browser screen exactly the same as you did.

   <B>          </B>         --Boldface the text.

   <I>          </I>         --Italic fontfact.

   <FONT>       </FONT>      --Specify font features.

   <UL>         </UL>        --Itemize the text with bullets.

   <OL>         </OL>        --Itemize the text with numbers.

   <LI>         </LI>        --List items along with <UL>or<OL>tags.

   
   <TABLE>      </TABLE>     --Create tables.

   <CAPTION>    </CAPTION>   --Create table header.

   <TH>         </TH>        --Create table headings.

   <BR>                                 --Force line break.

   <TR>              </TR>        --Specify table rows

   <TD>              </TD>        --Specify table cells for entering data.

   
   <A>               </A>         --Set link to local or external source.

   <IMG>                                --Insert images 

   <FRAMESET>        </FRAMESET>  --Indicate to Browser this is a frameset

   <FRAME>           </FRAME>     --Create frames.

   <NOFRAME>         </NOFRAME>   --Offer another choice if Browser can't 

                                                handle frames.

   <FORM>            </FORM>      --Indicate to Browser this is a form.

   
   <INPUT>                              --Used with FORM to create a text box for 

                                                entering data.

   <TEXTAREA>        </TEXTAREA>   --Used to create a larger text box.

   <SELECT>          </SELECT>     --Used to create drop-down box.

   <HR>                                 --Create a horizontal ruler.

   <H1>              </H1>        --From H1-H6, create different size 

                                                headings.

   <EM>              </EM>        --Boldface and italic the text.
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