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Introduction
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Quick access to information is vitally important. Each day, you
make decisions in all areas of your life. Today, computers and
networks have become the tools people use to gather, analyze,
and use information to make informed decisions and to communicate
with others around the world. The world's largest network
is the Internet -- a worldwide network of computers that houses
the information on a multitude of subjects.
What is the Internet?
The Internet is a worldwide collection of networks that links
together millions of businesses, the government, educational
institutions, and individuals using modems, telephone lines,
and other communiction devices and media. More than 125 Million
people in more than 150 countries are connected to the Internet
in their homes, offices, or schools. Users with computers connected
to the Internet have access to a variety of services including
e-mail, newsgroups, and the World Wide Web.
What is HTML?
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...
Start Learning HTML now!
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