HTML

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HTML

The Internet is a network of computers connected together. Because the Internet is a network of computers we can touch it because it is Hardware.

The World Wide Web is a collection of websites that we can access using the Internet. Each website contains Web Pages which are navigated to via hyperlinks. Web Pages contain different types of information including images, text and multimedia. The World Wide Web is a piece of Software therefore it cannot be touched.

A Web Page is saved as a HTML file. A website can have many Web Pages, linked together. In order to access these Web Pages, we have to save them on a Web Server. Websites are stored on Web Servers all over the world. There is no central storage of websites. A Web Server is a very powerful computer on which websites are stored.

When we open a Web Pages our computer requests the file from our ISP (Internet Service Provider). If the ISP hasn't got the HTML file, it will contact other Web Servers on the Internet to locate the Web Page. Once the file has been located, it is sent to our computer via the same route, only after receiving the file can our computer receive the

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Introduction and Tags

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language is the language of the web. It describes the content in the Web Pages.

HTML tags normally come in pairs. The opening tag and the closing tag. The opening tag is just the name of the tag between < > The closing tag is the name of the tag between </ >

Examples:

<openingtag>

</closingtag>