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Word Count: 1788 HTML - A Website Language Explained - For Over 35's This is a very perfunctory look at the website code HTML, for those who never
did any kind of Computer Studies at school and have never had the need or
opportunity to look 'under the skirt' of your average website. There's nothing
that an experienced webmaster will find here that's not very basic, but for
those who have just begun to discover the 'website' and especially those
venturing into... maybe starting one of their own, here's a basic understanding
to pique the interest and possibly kick-start the learning process.
If you don't even know what I'm talking about when I say HTML, as a means to
follow what we're talking about as we go, then just go to this page - Home
Based Business & Affiliate Center and click on the 'View'
option at the top of your browser and select 'Source' or 'Page Source'
(depending on your browser type) from the drop-down menu. You will be confronted
by a Notepad document with silly looking symbols, letters and numbers on it.
Well, that is HTML code. It's the coded 'blueprint' for the web PAGE (not the
whole website) that you're looking at. Keep the Notepad document open to refer
to as we discuss each part.
P.S. I have had to add some spaces into the example codes that wouldn't
normally be there, otherwise the example codes would actually 'work' and
influence the way the article looked in those article websites that accept their
article submissions with html code ability. But you'll get the idea...
HTML is nothing more than a set of instructions for your browser
program (or any program used to read web pages) to interpret and present the web
page in a visual form for you to see. It's made up of individual symbols, with
each either have a meaning in itself or sometimes a set of them (often many
characters long) representing a simple instruction to place any part of the web
page, say... an image in a certain spot or to perform a function.
Firstly, at the top, you'll see the < html> tag, which is
identifying the language being used. Then you see a <head> tag.
That's comparable to the 'header' on a letter, where your company name, address
and phone number would go. It's there for the Search Engines, like Google and
Yahoo etc, so they can, at a glance, see what the web page is and what it's
about. Under the < head> tag there are < meta> tags,
each of which contains information about different aspects of the web page like,
the title, a short description, the program used to create it, copyright
information, keywords that relate to the subject matter on the web page and
other instructions that are meant solely for the Search Engine robots (spiders,
crawlers - they have different names) when they visit.
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