HTML Guide

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At this point, I like to give a big shout out to Cody a student of Anna Jones, Learning technology and design, for supplying some of the links below


Introduction to HTML quote from explaining what HTML is

“HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the standard markup language used to create web pages. A web browser can read HTML files and compose them into

History of HTML

Tutorials you can use to learn HTML

HTML code validation service

Colour and Design


Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) quote from explaining what CSS is


Tutorials you can use to learn CSS and how to use it in HTML

HTML editors

HTML Editors Background to HTML editors

Editors that come with your computer

  • Mac = TextEdit
  • Windows = Notepad

These are free and a good place to start instructions for using notepad can be found below

HTML using notepad

Editors online

These can be used on windows and mac they can also be used on Android and ios devices such as phones and tablets, they are also good to use with notepad as it shows you what the code will look like as a web page, have a go at using all of them find the best one for you

Professional editors

These are very expensive and until you find out you like HTML these are not the best option to start off with

Once you built your website in whatever editor you choose, you will need somewhere to put it, HTML can run on a free web host, below link showing a comparison of free web hosts

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Other Web-design Methods


Introduction to XHTML quote from explaining what XHTML is



Tutorial you can use to learn XHTML


Introduction to XML quote from explaining what XML is

“Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-readable. It is defined by the W3C’s XML 1.0 Specification[2] and by several other related specifications,[3] all of which are free open standards.[4]”

Tutorials you can use to learn PHP


Introduction to PHP quote from explaining what PHP is



Tutorials you can use to learn PHP

PHP can be embedded into HTML, but unlike HTML, PHP is a server-driven language so you need a web server such as Apache and PHP engine to make it work you can either put these on your computer or get a web host, see CMS section which gives information on LAMP or WAMP

Content management system

Introduction to content management systems quote from explaining what content management systems are

“A content management system (CMS) is a computer application that allows publishing, editing and modifying content, organizing, deleting as well as maintenance from a central interface. Such systems of content management provide procedures to” manage workflow in a collaborative environment.[5] These procedures can be manual steps or an automated cascade. CMSs have been available since the late 1990s.

Examples of CMSs

Both of these are free and can be downloaded, but you need PHP, MYSQL and Apache web server on your web host or on your own computer/server

PHP (see PHP above), Mysql (database) and Apache are free and can also be downloaded, but hard to set up if you want to set up your own server, check out the information and links below

if you go the web host route these can be expensive because you can not use a free web host because they do not give to access to the server and are not WAMP or LAMP server compatible. there are lots of web hosts available just Google web hosting (check if they are a WAMP or LAMP compatible) and choose a web host in your budget range, you usually pay monthly or yearly


What is blogging

Examples of blogging sites

These are free services and you get everything you need to get started this is a good place to start, you can even use the blogging platforms web pages, you get a domain name such as in WordPress, in Tumblr and in blogger, however if you need a domain name such as etc you need to pay, in WordPress you also pay to have access to CSS to custom your page