Topic Overview and Actualization

Hi there! Today, we embark on your web development journey with HTML — HyperText Markup Language, the cornerstone of any webpage. Just as bones provide structure to the human body, HTML structures web pages. By the end of this lesson, you should understand how webpages are structured and create your first HTML webpage.

Introduction to the Internet and Web Pages

The Internet is a colossus of interconnected computers. When you type a website address, or URL, into your web browser, the browser requests the webpage from a computer known as a server. The server, in turn, sends back the requested webpage to your browser. Webpages are written in HTML, which your browser reads and translates into structured pages that you see when browsing the web, complete with text, images, and other type of content.

HTML Basics

HTML organizes and structures web content using tags, which are denoted by <tagname>. For instance, to create a paragraph of text, we surround the text between an opening <p> tag and a closing </p> tag. Like so:

The opening and closing tags, along with the content together are called an HTML element.

There are many other tags in HTML used for different purposes. Here are a few:

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