HTML, or hyper text markup language, is one of the earliest ways sites were put online. Though now HTML is automated into many website building platforms, it still helps to know the basics of the language if you need to make any major changes to your site’s design.
Starter Tags
Website building basically takes a language, HTML in this case, and converts it into the types of pages you see online. The basic header tags in HTML are what “tell” a computer how to display the coding it sees. All tags are enclosed in brackets. Each tag must have a place where it begins and ends, and the ending tags is showing with a bracket and slashes, like this:
The first tag required is the html tag. is the very first line in any document, and is the last line. This tag tells the computer what language to use when deciphering the code between the tags. If these tags are missing, everything just appears as basic text on a page. The next tag to include is the header tag. When you have a page opened and read what is in the blue bar at the very top of the screen you are looking at the header. Most header tags in website building include the name of the website. The header is simple: . Put whatever you want to appear in that blue bar within the header tag.
Next you will need to have body tags. The opening body tag – -- goes after the HTML tag, and the ending tag goes just before the ending HTML tag. Your site will begin like this:
All of your website building design will go here.
Text Tags
All text will be in Times New Roman as a default, but you can change the text by using a font tag: . You would type font, leave a space, and then put the type of font you would like, such as this example: . You also can use “Color” and “Size” within a font tag to make the font different sizes and colors. Just be careful when you are working on website building that you check the view of any fonts you use in both Internet Explorer and Firefox and also on different screen resolutions.
Special Formatting Tags
There are four basic formatting tags that will be helpful: headline, bold, italic, and underline. The tags are easy to learn. The bold tag is <b>. The italic tag is simply <i> , and the underline is <u> .
Headlines are the sub-headings within articles. Search engines value these headings more than regular font. The sub-heading tags use . You can use any number to make the heading smaller or larger.
While these tags are just the basics needed for website building, they will help you make more sense of your site development code.
