Do it yourself website tips: basic html

Do it yourself website: Basic html

As you are creating your own website, you may need to know some basic html. It’s a simple language, and stands for “hypertext markup language.”

Don’t panic! It’s very simple, and you don’t even really need to know all of it – just a few basics.

Most likely, you’ll be using an html editor, which will allow you to create your pages with a “what you see is what you get” interface...which basically means it does the html coding for you.

But to make it easier for troubleshooting, you should know some...

HTML Basics

HTML for Images

Here’s the html tag to insert a picture into your website page:

Pretty simple, right? Basically all the formatting tags have a beginning tag and an ending /tag, surrounded by <>.

By knowing a few html basics, it’ll make it easier for you to fix any broken pages that you or your html editor may have caused. With an html editor doing all the coding for you, you will just need to know some basic html to troubleshoot your website pages.

Sometimes you can use basic html in your articles before you submit them to article sites. Other practical uses of basic html -- posting an item for sale on eBay or in a classified ad on Craigslist.

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