HTML Tutorial

Introduction

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. While this sounds complicated, don’t worry; learning HTML is much more simple than the name suggests. It differs from a programming language such as C++ or Basic in that the source code never needs to be compiled. Instead, it is simply interpreted by a web browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer.

The HTML 4.0 standard is quite old, yet much of the language is still widely supported. The new standard is XHTML 1.0. This standard attempts to unify the current differences in language and to increase compliance of written code by implementing a stricter standard of interpretation. Essentially, XHTML 1.0 is the correct way to design web pages and is what will be taught in this tutorial.