Requirements for programming HTML:
1: Time and patience
2: A text editing program such as Notepad, Notepad++ or Dreamweaver.

First and foremost to understand what HTML is you must first know what HTML stands for. HTML is the abbreviataion of Hypetext Markup Language, It is one of the two must needed languages for programming a website from scratch, the other being CSS or Casscading Style Sheet.

So to begin, the starting layout for an HTML file is this:


Now you should also declare what kind of HTML you will be using. More info about this can be found [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

A few more of the tags that will be used in HTML are; <p>, <div>, <table>, <ol>, <ul>, and <li>. Please note that almost all of the tags in HTML must be closed by the following tag(s) </(tag)> however some like the image tag which is <img> may be closed by adding in an "/" at the end.


Another tag which is very important to know is the <a> tag. This is what allows you to link to pages on your site or to another website. An example of this using TheTechGame's home button is the following:

Now you may be asking what does the href="/" for? The answer is that, it is used for telling the site where to go so since it is going to the root directory it will take you to the site's homepage on a website however on a computer it will take you to your C: Drive or which ever drive you are currently using.

Now to add in an image you would use a code like this:

The src part in the above code stands for Source, this is used to tell the website where your image is located.

On a final note I would like to wish you luck in programming and a few places which have helped me to learn all that i know about HTML and CSS coding.

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