What is HTML

HTML means HyperText Markup Language. It was developed in the 1990 by Mr. Timothy Berners-Lee. It is the code that allows us to make web pages to share with others on the World Wide Web (WWW)

Example of a HTML document

As you can see the HTML consists of "tags" around certain parts of the text to tell the computer browser how to display it
The <html> element can be thought of as a container that holds everything together The <head> tag contains the title for your web page enclosed in <title> </title> tags. The text in between these tags will be displayed in the title bar on the top of the viewers browser. This area is also used for information that is not normally viewable within your browser such as meta tags, JavaScript and CSS. The <body> tag is the main area for your content. This is where most of your text code will go. The tag declares a paragraph. This contains the body text. The tag is used for making bold text Note most tags have a closing tag with an added “/” (<html></html> ) When your page does not look as you expected it to, make sure you check your tags. If you forget to put the tag to stop bold the rest of the document will be bold. Some tags like <hr /> and do not require any closing tag. HTML SandBox http://htmlsandbox.com/ This is a great place to test your HTML code to make sure it displays as you wanted it to. Get your code working here first or try new things.

Listed below are a lot of different tags to make your pages with. Experiment with them in the HTML Sandbox

Body Attributes

Text Tags

Formatting

Tables

Table Attributes

HTML Colors

You can make any color to use on your web page such as red, blue green, yellow, black and even white!
The standard colors are aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow.
Colors are usually made up of Hex numbers like #000000 for black and #ffffff for white and #ffd700 for gold.
We will use the color names to keep it simple and make it eaiser for your to remember

If you want to see even more colors to chose from go here:
http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_colornames.asp