A quick guide to basic HTML

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is what web pages are created from. It is good to have a basic understanding of HTML weather it is for creating your own webpage or if you get a error on the page you are trying to view. If you can understand the basics of writing HTML then you can easily construct a webpage and in this tutorial we will show you how to do just that.

HTML HEADING:

All webpage’s should have a heading. Headings usually consist of anything from H1 to H6. H1 is seen as the most important and relevant to search  engines.

<h1>This is where your heading goes</h1>

-For every heading you must redo this HTML code hower changing the number to H2 and H3

HTML PARAGRAPHS:

When writing paragraphs in HTML you must make sure that use use the correct HTML.

<p>This is where paragraph goes.</p>

For every new paragraph you must redo this HTML code.

HTML LINKS:

If you want to add a link in HTML code then you should use ‘href’ . The second part of this HTML is where the name of the image goes.

<a href=”http://www.yourlinkhere.co.uk”>This is a link</a>

HTML IMAGES:

To add an image in HTML you should use ‘img src’ then you should include the name of the image you are inserting, followed by the dimensions of the image.

<img src=”yourimage.jpg” width=”80″ height=”165″ />

You can customize the dimensions of the height and width to suite your image.

One you have learnt all of the basic elements of a HTML webpage then you can start to put them together and create your first webpage. If you do not have any web development programs on your computer then if you are using windows you can create this in Notepad as long as it is saved as.HTML