Lesson 2: Structure and Method

I'll bet you're thinking "Structure and Method? What is this... some kinda textbook???" Well, no, in this lesson you'll be learning about the Structure of HTML and the Method that is used to make them.

HTML is not coded with some special "HTML tool", and you do'nt even need some special program to make HTML pages, like Microsoft FrontPage (In fact, I discourage their use until you know the ins and outs of HTML code). All that you DO need is a simple text editing program like Notepad.

You're probably thinking "Wait just one second, you're telling me I can code up another Yahoo! with my puny little Notepad? Yes! That's part of the beauty of HTML! How do we do this? Keep reading!

When you make a Web page the first thing you need to do is gather your content. For our first page ever, we'll be making a informative page about ourselves. For example, here is mine:


Welcome to Justin's Web Page!

Hi, My name is Justin. I built this web page because I love coding in HTML! I could do it all day long!

I am a lover of programming languages, and love to design and produce web content.

Thanks for visiting my page!

Yours Truly,
-Justin

Go ahead and think up a few paragraph's like this, and meet me at the next lesson.

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