How to Become Skilled at HTML

Learn “old-fashion” HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

About Web sites: This blog or Web log is a web site.

Web sites are "filing cabinets" connected to the Internet.
On Web sites, you can publish Web pages in a format called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).
Anyone with a computer connected to the Internet can view Web pages using programs called browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
You can also use Web sites to send and receive email over the Internet.

Creating and publishing Web pages

The easiest way to create a Web page is to use a Web-authoring tool, also called an HTML-authoring tool.
Some of the more common authoring tools are:
[v] Composer (http://wp.netscape.com/communicator/composer/v4.0/index.html) - fully integrated, web document-authoring tool, which is free and available from Netscape,
[v] FrontPage (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010858021033.aspx) - the Microsoft Office Web site creation and management program, which is available for purchase from Microsoft,
[v] Dreamweaver (http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/) - the industry-leading web development tool, enabling users to efficiently design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications, which is available for purchase from Macromedia.

These tools write the HTML code for you as you compose your page.
Using them is similar to using a word processor such as Microsoft Word.

As an alternative, you can create Web pages by writing the HTML code yourself in a text editor program such as Notepad.
Pointers to learning HTML for hand-coding Web technique include
[v] Writing HTML: A tutorial for creating Web pages (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/) - a project of the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI),
[v] Lycos Web Monkey (http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/) - the web developer's resource,
[v] CNET Networks Web Builder (http://builder.com.com/) - Builder.com - Beyond the code,
JupiterWeb networks HTML Goodies (http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com) - the ultimate html resource,
[v] Yale Web Style Guide by Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton, 2nd edition (http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html)
[v] World Wide Web Consortium W3C HTML Homepage (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/) - HyperText Markup Language (HTML) Home Page.


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