Welcome to Eazy HTML

Here, you will be writing a very basic lesson called Space Tours as an example on how to get you started on your way to building your own web site. However, this tutorial may be used by anyone who wants to create web pages of any sort and can use it for reference. The Eazy HTML beginners tutorial only covers HTML and some of the basic steps towards coding XHTML 1.0, it does not cover css in this part of the tutorial. We feel that any one just starting to learn Web Design needs a solid knowledge of basic HTML before they should move on to more technical methods of creating web pages.

How ever if you already know how to write and code HTML, you can learn about CSS and how to use it on your site by clicking the link on the left. Or if you know what you want to look up and just need to know how to code it, use our site map to locate what your specifically looking for.

By the time you have reached the end of this tutorial you will be able to construct a series of linked web pages for any subject that includes formatted text, pictures, and hypertext links to other web pages on the Internet. If you follow the steps for the Basic Level (lessons 1-13) you will develop a page about Space Tours and if you go on to the Advanced Level (lessons 14-22), you will create an slightly enhanced Space Tours web site.

THE WEB IS BECOMING AN INTEGRAL PART of our working (and playing) world. You cannot spit anymore these days without hitting a URL (if you do not know what a URL is, you will find out here). In a very short time span, the web has revolutionized the way we access information, education, business, entertainment. It has created industries where there were none before.

Being able to develop information on the web might be a job skill, a class requirement, a business necessity, or a personal interest. Unlike any other previous medium, the ability to "write" HTML allows you to potentially connect with millions of other people, as your own self-publisher.

IN THE FOLLOWING LESSONS YOU WILL:

• Identify and use different HTML formatting codes.
• Create and modify HTML documents using a simple text editor.
• Write a series of web pages that present information, graphics, and provide hypertext links to other documents on the World Wide Web.

PUT MOST SIMPLY, HTML, is a format that tells a computer how to display a web page. The documents themselves are plain text files (ASCII) with special "tags" or codes that a web browser knows how to interpret and display on your screen.

This Site teaches you how to create web pages the old-fashioned way -- by hand. There are plenty of software editing "tools" that allow you to whip up web pages without even touching any HTML. But if you are really serious about doing more than a page or two, then understanding HTML in the basics will improve what you can do.

YOU WILL ALSO NEED A TEXT EDITOR PROGRAM capable of creating plain text files e.g. Simple Text for the Macintosh or NotePad for Windows. I recommend that you use the most basic text editor while you learn HTML and then later you can explore HTML "editors". This way you have more of an understanding of what your editor is actually doing and how to manipulate the code it creates to your liking. :-)

If you are looking for some free/cheap alternative text editors, our recommendations are Edit Pad (for Windows & Linux) and BB Edit Lite (for Macintosh)