Very Basic HTML for Webmasters
by Tony Sanderson on Jun.08, 2009, under Web Design
With all the web design tools out there, it’s pretty easy for just about anyone to create a basic website and call themselves a Webmaster. However, if you really want to be a good Webmaster you can’t rely on tools to do all the work for you. You should take the time to properly learn how to use the basic language of web pages, which is called HTML.
HTML stands for hypertext markup language. This may sound really complicated, but what it refers to is that HTML documents are basically just regular text documents that have certain notations that indicate how the computer should display them. That means, despite how complicated HTML files can look, all you need is a basic text editor to create and modify them. And if HTML is too complicated for you, you can always use a PSD to HTML service.
One of the driving forces of HTML scripting is the use of tags. Tags tell an Internet browser how to format the text that’s found in between the tags. For example, <head> is a tag that indicates to the browser that the text should be formatted as the title of the page, while <body> indicates that the text is part of the main body text. It’s important to remember to close out each tag so that the browser knows where each section ends. This is done with the forward slash, like this: </head> or </body>.
With just this basic knowledge, you can create a very rudimentary website, just using the head and body tags. Of course, if you really want to call yourself a Webmaster, you’ll have to learn a lot more than that.