Web Page Creation Geology and Geophysics Department Guide to Web Page Creation Introduction to HTML HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is not a programming language and creating HTML documents does not require any kind of advanced programming skill. In fact, one only needs to remember a few markup tags to create a nice looking web page. These documents can be created in a text editor such as emacs or vi, or with an HTML editor like HotMetal or the Netscape editor . In this seminar we will discuss how to use both a text editor and the Netscape editor .
Most people find it much easier to use an HTML editor to create HTML documents than a text editor .
It saves some time and makes remembering the tags unnecessary, but as with anything it is important to understand the fundamentals before jumping into the subject. Also your HTML editor might not always allow you to do everything you want to do and knowing the actual commands might be useful in that case. Thus we will cover the basics of HTML tags first. Then we will cover linking to other pages and images followed by a look at the Netscape editor . Some of the tags are required or strongly recommended for each document.