I’m just going to start simple HTML for my computer class; Is it hard to learn?
A little help?
It’s pretty easy. It’s basically word processing.
Extremely. Look around on the internet for guides.
However, basic HTML is slowly being phased out to be replaced by extensions and developments, like Stylesheets, XHTML, DHTML, Javascript, and probably loads more besides.
If all you want to do is make a few simple pages for a personal site, have a look around on Google for beginner guides like here:
Yeah, it’s easy. I created my website 99% from the “View Source” command on pages I found interesting. The rest was learned through simple tutorials.
That’s a really great site to learn from. It walks you through from the beginning, it has reference lists, CSS, javascript, etc. all very well explained. Good luck.
Basic HTML is incredibly easy. I could teach my freaking cats to do HTML, except then all they would do was pages on sleeping.
To simplify: basic HTML is primarily done by the use of tags around words and phrases, or tags which tell the web browser how to do a certain action. For example - to make the following text bold:
This is bold text.
You would write the following:
<B>This is bold text.</B>
The ‘<B>’ means ‘start bolding text here’, and the ‘</B>’ means ‘finish bolding text here’.
(Note that none of these things will work in this post, since the SDMB has turned off HTML.)
Italics would use <I> and </I>. Note too that many tags are additive. For example - if you want bold italic underlined text, you would do:
<B><I><U>This is bold, italic, underlined text.</U></I></B>
The next more advanced things are HTML Tables. These, however follow a logical way of construction, at their most basic. To make a basic 1-row, 2-column table with a border on it, one would do:
<TABLE border=1> - defines we are starting a table, with a border size of 1
<TR> - first table row starts
<TD> - first table cell starts
Text 1 - text inside the first cell
</TD> - close the first cell
<TD> - start the second cell on the first row
Text 2 - text inside the second cell
</TD> - close the second cell on the first row
</TR> - close the first row
</TABLE> - finish the table
and so forth, along those lines.
Anyhow - those are examples of basic HTML.