About HTML
HTML is a subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and is specified by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
You don't need any special equipment or software to create HTML. In fact, you probably already have everything you need. Here is what you need:
- Computer
- Text editor. For example, Notepad (for Windows), Pico (for Linux), or Simpletext (Mac). You could use a HTML editor if you like but it's not needed.
- Web Browser. For example, Internet Explorer or Firefox.
No, you do not need to be online to create web pages. You can create web pages on your local machine. You only need to go online when you want to publish your web page to the web - this bit comes later.
When you create a web page you will usually do something like this:
- Create an HTML file
- Type some HTML code
- View the result in your browser
- Repeat the last 2 steps (if necessary)
An HTML file is simply a text file saved with an .html or .htm extension (i.e. as opposed to a .txt extension).
- Open up your computer's normal plain text editor (this will probably be "Notepad" if you're using Windows or "SimpleText" if you're using Macs). You could use a specialized HTML editor such as DreamWeaver or FrontPage if you prefer.
- Create a new file (if one wasn't already created)
- Save the file as html_tutorial_example.html
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