The purpose of this document is to be an aid in learning how to create HTML (hypertext markup language) documents. In addition to the basic fundamentals of HTML, you will find templates to help you get started on a personal home page, a resume home page, a corporate home page, and a local page to link to frequently visited sites.
Individual browsers may support specific tags in different ways. It is a good idea to view your page with different browsers to see how your tags are translated.
When you come across a page you like on the web, take a look at
their source code to see how it was created. To do this, click
View on your
toolbar and Document Source in the pulldown menu.
Play, have fun, and learn!
- HTML head and body (including title and meta tags)
- Font Size Control (and color)
- FONT, H1, H2, H3, H4
- Commonly used tags - more font control
- I, EM, B, STRONG, U, STRIKE, SUP, SUB, ADDRESS
- More Commonly used tags - still more font control (including "comments")
- PRE, TT, SAMP, HR
- Paragraph Control and Special Characters
- P, BR, &
- Lists (descriptive, unordered, ordered)
- DL, DT, DD, UL, OL, LI
- Hyperlinks and Anchors to items (text, graphics, other)
- on same page, other page on same site, or remote site
- URL types
- Graphics
- Tables
- Page examples
Further Reading
A number of good tutorials exist online. These offer much more detail and explanation than this document. Also note that HTML is an evolving language, and thus new capabilities are added with each version.
Some good sources of information are:
- S/W section of Pack 113's "link" file, particularly:
- HTML 3.2 Reference Specification - W3C Recommendation
- HTML Quick Reference (including Explorer and Netscape extensions)
- NCSA--A Beginner's Guide to HTML (and here)
- Complete List of HTML Tags
- The Web Developer's Virtual Library
- An Introduction to Writing HTML Forms
- HyperWeb Webmasters Cool Hack Pages
- The Bare Bones Guide to HTML (and here)
- NCSA HTTPd Tutorial: Server Side Includes (SSI)
- ADD SOME LIFE TO YOUR WEB PAGES - emap.com Site Guide
- NCSA HTTPd Tutorial: Server Side Includes (SSI)
- The NCSA HTTPd Home Page
- Tables in Netscape 1.1
- The Table Sampler
- Table Samples
- THE WEB DESIGNER
- What's New With NCSA Mosaic
- QuickStart Home Page
- Cool HTML
- The structure of an HTML 3.2 document
- Overview of all HTML elements
- Wilbur quick reference (Wilbur is the name for the HTML standard (3.2))
- HTML Quick Reference
- Otmar's List of HTML Tags
- Tim Berners-Lee Style Guide for online hypertext
- NCSA HTML Primer
and A Beginner's Guide to HTML
and if these two old (1998) links are broken then try http://www.put.com/HTMLPrimer.html and https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-test/ncsa/HTMLPrimer.html respectively
or if all those fails get help finding these legacy files by searching on google for NCSA HTML Primer... - Yahoo search for HTML guides and tutorials.
Even more sources of information can be found here:
Some Internet HTML books are available in the old processed dead tree medium (paper), on CD, or, online; some are free and some advertise books for sale. For instance,
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