HTML basics

While you don’t have to have a degree in computer science to create an effective website, having a basic knowledge where the internet came from, how it developed and how it works will help you to design better sites and have some idea of why your web pages may not look the way you intended them to look. As with most areas of life, the more you know, the better of you’ll be.

File management
Creating and linking HTML pages
Headings
Paragraphs
Links

Readings

‘Browser Statistics’, W3 Schools http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Lane, Jonathan, ‘How does the Internet work?’, Opera Web Standards Curriculum, 8 July, 2008.
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/3-how-does-the-internet-work/

Norman Francis, Mark, ‘The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards’, Opera Web Standards Curriculum, 8 July, 2008.
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/2-the-history-of-the-internet-and-the-w/

Norman Francis, Mark, ‘The basics of HTML’, Opera Web Standards Curriculum, 8 July, 2008.

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/12-the-basics-of-html/

Watch

Coyier, Chris, “#58: HTML & CSS – The VERY Basics”, CSS Tricks, 24 March, 2009: http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/58-html-css-the-very-basics/