As specified earlier, HTML is Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML provides way of displaying any Web pages along with text & images or multimedia content. HTML is not a programming language, however a markup language. An HTML file is a text file having small markup tags. The markup tags tell the Web browser, like Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, how to display the page. An HTML file should have an html or htm file extension. These files are stored onto the web server. thus if you want to view the web page of a company, you must enter the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), that is the web site address of the company in the address bar of the browser. It sends a request to the web server that in turn responds by returning the wished web page. The browser renders the web page then and you view it on your computer.
HTML lets Web page publishers to create complicated pages of text & images which can be viewed by anyone on the Web, regardless of what sort of computer or browser is being utilized. In spite of what you might have heard, you don't require any special software to create an HTML page; all you require is a word processor (such as Microsoft Word) and a working knowledge of HTML. Luckily, the fundamentals of HTML are easy to master. Though, you can relieve tedium and develop your productivity via a good tool. A simple tool is Microsoft FrontPage which decreases the need to remember and type in HTML tags. Still, there can be conditions where you are forced to hand code definte parts of the web page.
HTML is a series of tags only that are integrated into a document which can have text, images or multimedia content. Usually HTML tags are English words (such as block quote) or abbreviations (like p for paragraph), although they are distinguished from the regular text since they are placed in small angle brackets. Thus the paragraph tag is <p>, and the block quote tag is <blockquote>. Some of the tags dictate how the page will be formatted (for example, <p> begins a new paragraph), and others dictate how words appear (<b> makes text bold). Still others provide information like the title which doesn't appear on the page itself. The first thing to remember regarding tags is that they travel in pairs. Mostly time that you employ a tag - say <blockquote> - you have to also close it with another tag - in this case, </block quote>. Note the slash - / - before the word "block quote"; that is what distinguishes a closing tag from an opening tag.
The fundamental HTML page starts with the tag <html> and ends with </html>. In between, the file contains two sections - the header & the body.
The header - enclosed through the <head> & </head> tags - contains information regarding a page which will not appear on the page itself, like the title. The body enclosed through<body> & </body> - is where the action is. Everything which appears on the page is contained in these tags.
HTML pages are of two following types: