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What is HTML?HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the basis for everything a webmaster does. HTML is basically a series of commands and tags that tell an internet browser what to display. If you're sitting there scratching your chin, let me help you. If I was to type <b>, all of the text after that becomes bold. How do I make it stop? </b> Ends it. "<b>" is one of many HTML tags. A tag is what you type to signal text or an object to do something. We'll get to that more later.Where do I write HTML?You can write HTML in any word processor, such as notepad, wordpad, word, or SimpleText for Mac Users. Most anything is ok though. When you write your document, full of tags and commands, you now need to save it. Name it anything you like, but you must end the filename in ".html" or ".htm". So if I want my document called "jakespage" to work as an HTML document, I must save it as "jakespage.html". So now you wanna look at it like a webpage? Open up your browser (such as Internet Explorer) and go to "file". Click "open" and click "browse" in the "open" window. Find where you saved your file, and open it! Ta da! There's your first document. You will write your own in the next tutorial. For now to make sure you understand, copy and paste the code below to a document and save and open it.<html> <title>Look! a webpage!</title> <body> You did it! </body> </html>
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