HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a computer language. Like other computer languages, it is used to create something. HTML has been designed to create one thing though, and that is web pages. HTML is relatively easy, compared to some other computer languages, and the basics of HTML can be learned in as little as ten or twenty minutes. Also, anybody is able to create web pages using HTML, as long as they have internet access.

The main purpose of HTML is to create web pages. Through a series of commands, known as HTML Tags, the writer creates their web site just by typing in text.

HTML is made up of a series of tags, which are simallar to commands, telling the web browser what to do. These tags can be typed into any normal text editor such as Notepad or Simpletext, and when in the right order, form a web page. Writing HTML then is simply, writing tags. Throughout this tutorial, you will be learning different tags in HTML.

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