HTML Tutorial

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is used in conjunction HTTP —Hypertext Transfer Protocol as the foundation coding language for web design and development. With HTML and other languages, web designers and developers create all of the web pages and websites seen on the web today. An HTML Beginner's Guide will help with understanding enough to start basic websites. 

Fonts

Size: W3Schools offers information on sizing fonts with HTML .

Kinds: Only certain fonts are safe to use in HTML to ensure that the font is the same for all viewers.

Color: HTML Code Tutorial offers information on font and color in HTML. 

Links

W3Schools offers extensive information on HTML links and their attributes .

W3.org offers even more information on links in HTML.  

Images

Bright Hub's Web Development Channel provides an excellent tutorial on creating image maps with HTML. Bright Hub also shares an overview of image tags and attributes to help designers who are just learning HTML understand how to include images in their code. 

Borders

FAQ's offers information on the border attribute of the image tag and shows photos for example results.

Wrapping text

Wrapping text with HTML is a simple process. This Wrapping Text with HTML tutorial from Bright Hub will help designers understand how to get it done. 

Comment tags

Web Developers Notes offers important information on HTML comments

Mailtos

HTML can send email too. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln shares information on the HTML Mailto syntax

Teletype

HTML Help and the Web Designers Group provide information on HTML Teletype

Line Breaks

Line breaks in HTML leave a blank line on the page. Xavier University at Louisiana has a tutorial on line breaks.  

View Source

iWebTool provides a nice HTML view source tool. It is also possible to view source code of a page by right clicking and choosing, “view source.” 

Blink

Web Design from Scratch provides useful information on the HTML Blink tag , how to use it and when to avoid it.  

Background image and color

W3Schools offers information on how to use an image as a background in HTML. They also offer HTML color names to assist with using colors in the background. 

Lists

W3 provides usefully information on lists in HTML documents .  

With all of these tools, web designers will be able to do just about anything that a website requires using HTML. More extensive web designs will require the use of different coding languages.

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