HTML: An Interactive Tutorial - Dave's HTML Code Guide - Learn to code HTML with our free HTML help guide!

Learn HTML code & tags interactively by example with the help of this free coding tutorial!
HTML: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners - Dave's HTML Code Guide - Learn to code HTML with our free HTML help guide!

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HTML stands for the HyperText Markup Language. HTML code is the major language of the Internet's World Wide Web. Web sites and web pages are written in HTML code. With HTML code and the world wide web, you have the ability to bring together text, pictures, sounds, and links... all in one place! HTML code files are plain text files, so they can be composed and edited on any type of computer... Windows, Mac, UNIX, whatever.

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Who is this Tutorial for?

This tutorial is for anyone who is serious about learning HTML code. Perhaps you want your own web page, or an entire web site. Perhaps you're setting up a web site for your business or organization. You've come to the right place. You do not need any prior experience in making web pages to take this course (although I will assume you know how to do some basic things with your computer, like use a word processor.)

What do you mean by Interactive Tutorial?

This tutorial is a "hands on" tutorial... you get to test your new HTML skills immediately after you learn the code, chapter by chapter ... all within your web browser! There is no need to go fiddle with other applications while you are learning HTML code with this tutorial.

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Basic Tutorial MiniChapters

HTML Code Introduction: How to start your Home Page [A Must Read! Very Important Stuff!]
HTML Code HostChapter 1: Learn how easy it is you get your own .com, .net, .org
HTML Code MiniChapter 1: The Basics [What a tag is, Document Structure]
HTML Code MiniChapter 2: The Common Tags [Headings and Horizontal Ruled Lines]
HTML Code MiniChapter 3: More Common Tags [Paragraphs, Text Formatting, ALIGN, and Line Break]
HTML Code MiniChapter 4: Links and Images
HTML Code MiniChapter 5: A Few More Tags [Centering, BODY, etc.]
HTML Code MiniChapter 6: Clean Code, Comments, and Escape Tags
HTML Code MiniChapter 7: Lists, Lists, Lists [Unordered, Ordered, and Definition Lists]
HTML Code MiniChapter 8: Extended Fonts and Text Colors
HTML Code MiniChapter 9: Navigation within a Document
HTML Code MiniChapter 10: Publishing your Page [Uploading, Structuring, and Copyright Concerns]
- MiniChapter 10.2: Short FTP Tutorial
HTML Code ColorChapter: Using Hexadecimal Color Codes with your HTML Files

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Advanced Tutorial MiniChapters

HTML Code MiniChapter 11: More About Graphics [transparent gifs, animation]
HTML Code MiniChapter 12: Tables Tutorial
HTML Code MiniChapter 13: Adding Sounds to Your Page
HTML Code MiniChapter 14: Frames Tutorial
- HTML Code MiniChapter 14.2: More About Using Frames
- HTML Code MiniChapter 14.3: Even More About Using Frames
HTML Code MiniChapter 15: Using Meta Tags [Improving Search Engine Results, auto-reload]
HTML Code MiniChapter 16: Adding Counters and Guestbooks
HTML Code MiniChapter 17: Adding Forms and the mailto form

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Putting It All Together: Creating a Multi-Page Web Site with HTML Code

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Web Site Design Tutorial : Dave's Website Design Guide: Tutorials and Tips

Making a great web site is much more than just coding HTML. You need to be successful at presenting your ideas in an interesting manner, whatever your topic may be. Ignorance may be bliss for the one who writes the web site, but that’s rarely the case for the one who visits it. If your site looks unprofessional, so will your reputation.

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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about HTML code
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CSS: An Interactive Tutorial for Beginners - Learn cascading style sheets interactively by example! Great place to learn CSS and the most fundamental CSS code! ^POPULAR
Dave's Web Design Tutorial & Guide: Tips and Tutorials - Great overview of web site design.
Dave's Web Site Design Tutorial Follow-up to this tutorial, with tons of tips on modern web site. (From back in 1997!)
Dave's JavaScript Guide Learn a little bit of JavaScript after you know HTML.
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