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Authoring for the WWW

What is HTML?

The HyperText Mark-up Language, (HTML), is a coded text-formatting language. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is used to publish Web pages. It is a SGML-based markup langauge (SGML= Standard Generalized Markup Language. See ISO 8879). It allows a Web-browser to determine how to display text and multimedia images, and how to interact between the reader and the WWW server providing the document.

For the beginner, learning to author a web page may seem overwhelming. What tools do I use? Where do I get them? How do I write HTML code? Where do I publish it? True - the variables in accomplishing this task are many, and there are a great number of things to consider, but publishing on the WWW can be very simple with the right tools and resources.

As easy as ABC...   Select an editor. You can choose to learn the hypertext markup language or design from a graphical editor. Which ever type you choose, take some time to learn the necessary features in creating a web page.   Design and edit your page(s).   Publish it on the web by putting your files on a WWW server.