The Secret to Web Pages - HTML

HTML is the standard language for creating and translating Web documents. It allows writers to separate information from document presentation.

HTML is a simple tool to learn, as there are less than ten commonly used statements. HTML documents are nothing more than files with formatting codes that contain information about layout (text styles, document titles, paragraphs, lists) and hyperlinks. Rather than duplicate what others have done, we suggest you read through one of the references below, try writing your own, and then look at the HTML of interesting pages you come across, using the "view s ource" command in your browser to add to your "bag of tricks".

HTML can be written with any text editor, with one of the HTML editors that are starting to become available (HoTMeTaL, or CyberLeaf for example), or can be created with Microsoft's Internet Assistant.

While writing HTML is not difficult, designing effective Web pages is an art - and then keeping pages up to date is a challenge.

To start, you can look at the source code for this page (using the View Source option of the browser). Take some time to see how the browser interprets the HTML.