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The majority of Content Management System users never take the time to learn the HTML basics. Technology has changed the way the internet is used and Content Management Systems have made it possible for anyone to build a website, blog, or start an internet based work from home business. Their ease of use tends to make us lazy webmasters. Wouldn't you like to learn some of the HTML basics?
Have you ever found a great looking website and asked yourself: "Wow, that's cool how did they do that? Learning the HTML basics is not rocket science. Its actually a fairly simple and logical format.
HTML is written in plain text, it reads left to right, and top to bottom. What makes HTML come to life is what is known as tags. Tags are simple commands that we give words or phrases to create an affect such as bold, italics, and underline.
Lets suppose you are creating a new page for a website and you want to a certain word or phrase to stand out from the rest of the text. All you have to do is put a beginning tag in front of the word or phrase and an ending take after the word or phrase. You see that's not so hard. Now all we need to learn about the HTML basics is what the tag commands are and how to format the tag.
Formatting A Tag
The formats for all tags or commands are the same. There are no exceptions to the rule. They start with a less-than sign: . You remember these symbols from algebra class don't you? What goes between the is the tag. What affect do we want to put on the word? Do we want it to be bold, or maybe italicized. So formats are those algebra signs and tags are what we want the word or phrase to look like. I told you this wasn't rocket science.
For instance: The tag for bold is "strong"
James RouseJames Rouse
You see this HTML basics stuff really works once you get the hang of it.
Lets Break it Down
strong wrapped between is the start strong tag.
"James Rouse" is the affected word by the "strong" tag.
/strong wrapped between with a backslash is the end strong tag. It's the same as the beginning tag with a backslash in front of the tag command.
And the final product, Drum roll please: James Rouse
Its An Open And Closed Case - The Tags
In this article the term begin and end has been used for the tags. They are commonly known as open tags (beginning) and closed tags (end). Since this is the HTML basics it was easier to describe their location using the begin and end terms. Most times tags will require to be opened and closed although there are some cases when an open tag is all that is needed. Below are some examples of typical tags and their effect.
strong wrapped between followed by the close tag - results in bold
p wrapped between followed by the close tag at the end of text results in new paragraph
em wrapped between followed by the close tag results in italics
There may be occasions when you want to use two tags on the same word or phrase. This may be getting a little advances for HTML basics but lets explore this a bit.
Lets say want to make a word bold and italic. Set your first tag as strong immediately followed by the em tag. Then what word you want affected by the tag followed by the end tag em and strong in this order.
Be careful doing this because the tags have to be in the same order. If you mix up the order the formatting will be wrong. The best method for keeping the order correct is to add your open and close tags simultaneously.
Stand Alone Tags
The HTML basics isn't so hard once you get it figured out. So far we've talked about the open and close tags but there are some instances when a single tag is used without a need for the close tag. The most common ones are as follows:
HR wrapped between will produce a solid line going across the page. This is useful when you want to break a page up. BR wrapped in forces a line break.
Well, you made it through the introduction to HTML basics. The next time you get ready to write another page with the Content Management System of choice you'll have a better understanding of how all this stuff works.
I still use a CMS for my websites using HTML basics from SBI (Site Build It) because these guys really know search engine optimization. I actually became interested in HTML by reading their members only forums. That's where I got my HTML basics education.
Creating web pages that look good and read well is fun. Building a business with all the necessary tools for one low price and getting found on the search results page is priceless!
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