What is HTML?
To publish information for global distribution, one needs a universally understood language, a kind of publishing mother tongue that all computers may potentially understand. The publishing language used by the World Wide Web is HTML (from Hypertext Markup Language).
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) has two essential features: hyper text and universality.
Hypertext means you can create a link in a web page that leads the visitor to any other web page or to practically anything else on the Internet. It means that information on the web can be accessed from many different directions.
Universality means that because HTML documents are saved as text only files, virtually any computer can read a web page.
You can create an HTML document with any word processor or text editor like note pad, word pad. You can also use a web page editor like Dreamweaver.
HTML Tags: are commands written between less than < and greater than > signs (angle brackets) that indicate how the browser should display the text.