What Is HTML Text?

Series Summary

Creating your own website with a professional program like Dreamweaver can be a daunting task. Even programs designed for the casual user such as Microsoft's FrontPage can be difficult to use without the proper training. Yet you still want to build your own home page, but without all of the time and frustration it takes to learn a program from scratch. The solution is to master FrontPage using the easy-to-follow steps in these free videos. All you have to do is select a few basic options and your site practically builds itself. Then you can customize it to get the exact look that you want. In this free video series of web design videos, our professional software developer takes you step-by-step through the creation of a website using FrontPage. He begins with the basics of HTML, suggests how to storyboard the site and explains such FrontPage basics as finding themes and adding keywords. Once the basics have been mastered, learn more advanced techniques like using frames and forms, as well as adding dynamic effects.

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Luis Estrada and I'm a software developer. In this video I'll show you what HTML text is. HTML is the language used to create web pages. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. Originally it was a language used to format text as headings, paragraphs, links, columns, etc. HTML quickly evolved to include the use of images and forms. Today HTML allows us to embed video, animations, audio, and even entire computer programs on a web page. HTML uses markup tags to form out the text. These tags come as a pair of start and ending tags. Inside the tags, we write the text that we want to format. Since HTML now supports multimedia content, it is better to specify element content as the information specified inside the tags. HTMl tags are interpreted by web browsers that format and present the text according to the values inside the tags. Let's write a simple example of a web page. Open any text editor like notepad, in windows. Type opening and closing HTML tags. These tags are used to tell the web browser that this is an HTML document. Inside these tags, add another pair of tags and type head. The head tag is used to specify information about the document. Inside this element, you can specify for example: the title of the page, and the style that refers to the graphical representation of the web page, like its' background, and foreground colors, font style and size, etc. The most important tag inside the HTMl element is the body tag, which holds all the content of a document, like text, images, animations, videos, etc. Write another pair of opening and closing tags, and write the word body inside. In between these tags, write the text that'll be shown in the web browser. Now, press file and save as, choose a location, and a file name. Specify the file name with an HTM, or HTML extension. Use double quotes around the file name, so that notepad maintains the extension. Finally, click save. Now, go to the folder where you store the file. Double click on it and you will see your first web page. I'm Luis Estrada, and I've just showed you how to create a multimedia website using front page."