Chapter 1
HyperText Markup Language
IN THIS CHAPTER
Defining a web page
Putting in graphics
Defining your background
Creating hyperlinks with anchor points
Setting your tables
The language used to create every web page in the world is HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Although you can create web pages with specialized web page editing programs, such as Adobe Dreamweaver, it’s still nice to know how HTML works so you can modify web pages manually or create unique effects that may be difficult or impossible to accomplish with a web page editing program.
Similar to the way a traditional programming language relies on keywords, HTML relies on tags (keywords) that follow a rigidly defined syntax. Instead of creating a working program like a traditional programming language, HTML creates web pages that browsers can view.
In a traditional programming language, an error or bug can keep the entire program from running or make it calculate incorrectly. In HTML, an error can keep a web page ...
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