Web Hosting User Guide - HTML and CGI Script - What is HTML
HostSG assumes that Web site authors are proficient at writing HTML code and, therefore, we do not provide technical support for HTML coding. The following information is offered as a courtesy only.
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. It is a nonproprietary format based upon SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language), and can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from simple plain text editors to sophisticated WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) authoring tools.
HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes. The correct structure for an HTML document is as follows:
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
All the information you would like to include in your Web page fits in between the <body> and </body> tags.
There are hundreds of other tags used to format and layout the information in a Web page. For instance, <p></p> is used to make paragraphs and <i></i> is used to italicize fonts. Tags are also used to specify hypertext links. These allow Web developers to direct users to other Web pages with only a click of the mouse.
There are several different Web browsers available for viewing Web pages. As a Web designer, you should verify that your Web page looks the same in every browser.
A great source for additional information on HTML is the Web authority W3C. For information about writing your own Web pages, go to Getting Started with HTML.
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Hyperlinks and Anchors
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