Html INTRODUCTION

[gilbertsavier]

Hi,
Webpages are written in HTML - a simple scripting language.

HTML is short for HyperText Markup Language.

* Hypertext is simply a piece of text that works as a link.


* Markup Language is a way of writing layout information within documents.


Basically an HTML document is a plain text file that contains text and nothing else.

When a browser opens an HTML file, the browser will look for HTML codes in the text and use them to change the layout, insert images, or create links to other pages.

Since HTML documents are just text files they can be written in even the simplest text editor.

A more popular choice is to use a special HTML editor - maybe even one that puts focus on the visual result rather than the codes - a so-called WYSIWYG editor ("What You See Is What You Get").

Some of the most popular HTML editors, such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver will let you create pages more or less as you write documents in Word or whatever text editor you're using.

However, there are some very good reasons to create your own pages - or parts of them - by hand...

[Alan]

Hi,
Some of the most popular HTML editors, such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver will let you create pages more or less as you write documents in Word or whatever text editor you're using.

However, there are some very good reasons to create your own pages - or parts of them - by hand...

Why would you write them "by hand" when there are exemplary tools like Dreamweaer about. Anyone who writes web pages for publication using Word needs to consider giving up any serious thought of web design and development, the code is full of rubbish. USe the rght tool for the right job.

[oztech1]

Please explain why these reasons as I can't see why you would want to do that. As Alan said you can use Dreamweaver. Type the code on one part of its view pane and see how it would look like on the browser on the other part of the view.

[killermike215]

I would rather write the code "by hand" as it gives you complete and full control of your code.

It's like using C++ to write code. ASM (assembly language) gives you complete control; however, you are sacrificing the ease of use given by C++.

In this case, however, HTML is extremely simple to code by hand, so I would suggest that anyone that wants to create websites to learn how to code one by hand.

[ankur0412]

ya ... even i agree... html codes written by hands give u full control of the html... bt it would be better if you code it in softwares like dreamweaver..
this would give u an edge over the others who just drag and drop in dreamweaver, etc..

[davehivelocity]

html is coded better when in dreamweaver because if you make a typo notepad will not know but dreamweaver will.

[unigogo]

It just saves time to edit the code in a HTML WYSISWYG editor. However, it's not difficult to grasp HTML. There are CSS, Javascript, PHP behind.

[alibaba-clone]

for learners, the best practice is to learn and practice on notepad for html code.. when u will get an expert and will come into professional development, then to save the time dreamweaver is very nice..

[zoomactive.com]

Word can work however tools like dreamweaver assist the designer and speeds up the progress so you can charge less and earn more.