What is HTML?

H-T-M-L stands for HyperText Markup Language; computer people love initials and acronyms!

HTML is a very simple, very logical, set of codes.   HTML is written with text and it reads like you do: top to bottom and left to right.   HTML is a series of tags that you can use to set certain sections apart by enlarging text, by making the text smaller or by bolding or underlining the text.

Tags are a set of commands. If you want a part of your text to be bold, you would put a tag at the exact point you want the bold lettering to start and another tag where you want the bold lettering to stop. If you want just a word to be italic, you will place a start italic tag at the beginning of the word and an end italic tag at the end of the word.

Here are some simple examples of HTML codes:

To Create Paragraphs

<p>A paragraph can go here.</p>

<p>Another paragraph can go here.</p>

<br> will give you a space.

To Format Text

<b>bold</b>

<i>italics</i>

<i><b>bold and italic</b></i>

You can also use the preset heading formats like so:

<h1>Heading 1</h1>

<h2>Heading 2</h2>

<h3>Heading 3</h3>

<h4>Heading 4</h4>

To Create Bulleted Lists:

<ul> is the code you would write just before where you want to start a bulleted list

• <li>This would be your first bullet point
• <li>Second bullet point
• <li>Third bullet point....you get the idea

</ul> indicates where you want your list format to end.

<ol> is the code you would write just before where you want to start a numbered list

1. <li>This would be your first point
2. <li>Second point
3. <li>Third point....you get the idea

</ol> indicates where you want your numbered list format to end.

To Control Alignment:

<P ALIGN="left">Text in here is pushed to the left</P>

<CENTER>All text in here will be centered</CENTER>

<P ALIGN="right">Text in here is pushed to the right</P>

To Create a Horizontal Line:

<HR>This command gives you a line across the page. (HR stands for Horizontal Reference.) The line below was made using an <HR> tag.

To Create Links:

<a href="ENTER FULL LINK HERE">This is the text that we appear as the link</a>

For example:

To link to our homepage like this, homepage, you could put:

<a href="http://www.relocalize.net">homepage</a>

To have your link open in a new page you need to add the following code (in bold):

<a href="http://www.relocalize.net" target="_blank" >homepage</a>