HTML (hypertext markup language) is a set of instructions that explain the structure of your content to a web browser. HTML files are just text files that rely on the web browser to create the "look" of the content, whether it be styling text, displaying background colors, or importing images. See our list of HTML learning resources below.
HTML instructions are typically called "tags," which, in turn, contain "attributes." Tags and attributes appear inside of greater-than and less-than characters.
To import an image into an HTML page, the tag used is <img> (highlighted in green in the example to the right). Attributes for the <img> tag include src, width, and height, in addition to many more. The attributes are highlighted in yellow in the example to the right. In this case, the attributes are specifying the JPEG file to import (dining_room.jpg) and the dimensions of that JPEG file (140x100).
Most of your HTML will focus on text. There are some basic tags available for basic text formatting — settings like bold <b>, italic <i>, emphasis <em>, etc. In addition to these "begin" tags, there are also "end" tags. They surround the text you want to format. The "end" tag for <em> is </em>. So any text inside the beginning and ending tags will be affected when the browser renders your page. You can acheive even greater control by redefining tags entirely using cascading style sheets (CSS).
HTML Learning Resources
The following is a list of resources available on the web to help you get up to speed with HTML. While you are learning HTML and using GoLive®, we encourage you to switch to source mode often, so you can see the HTML code that GoLive generates while you are working in its visually rich environment. You will start to pick it up a lot faster than you think.
NSCA — A Beginner's Guide to HTML
This is a primer for producing documents in HTML, the hypertext markup language used on the World Wide Web
archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu...
W3Schools Introduction to HTML
Free HTML tutorial and web-building primer from W3Schools
WebReference
HTML resources and information
W3C
Getting started with HTML
Arachnoid.com
HTML for the conceptually challenged
Maricopa Center for Learning
Writing HTML: a tutorial for creating web pages
Iowa State University Extension
Learning HTML
Webmonkey.com
HTML cheat sheet
Werbach.com
Bare bones guide to HTML
