HTML has been in use by the World-Wide Web (WWW) global information initiative since 1990. Once you understand the syntax of HTML and know how to write it, it's quite simply for you to create a HTML file. All you need is a simply text editor like Notepad on Windows, then you write your html code and save it with a (.html, .htm) extension.

There is even simplier ways to create HTML files, such as using a software package like Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage. These packages automatically write the code for you and you can create a web page in a totally graphical interface with very little knowledge of HTML syntax and how to write it.

• TITLE- <TITLE> </TITLE> - this element provides the title of the html document
• ISINDEX - <ISINDEX> - allow the user to enter keywords which are then sent to the server
• META - META tags are used to convey meta-information about the document such as keywords and description
• LINK - <LINK REL=string HREF=URL> - link is used to indicate relationships between documents
• BASE - <BASE HREF=URL> - base tags are used to indicate the correct location of the document
• SCRIPT - <SCRIPT> </SCRIPT> - script tags specifies client-side JavaScript code
• STYLE - <STYLE> </STYLE> - include document level styles in your Web page

Headings

• H1 - Level 1 header
  H2 - Level 2 header
  H3 - Level 3 header
  H4 - Level 4 header
  h3 - Level 5 header
  H6 - Level 6 header

Physical markup

• TT - Teletype
  I - Italics
  B - Bold
  U - Underline
  STRIKE - Strikeout
  BIG - Larger text
  SMALL - Smaller text
  SUB - Subscript
  SUP - Superscript

Special markup

• A - Anchor
  BASEFONT - Default font size
  IMG - Image
  APPLET - Java applet
  PARAM - Parameters for Java applet
  FONT - Font modification
  BR - Line break
  MAP - Client-side imagemap
  AREA - Hotzone in imagemap

Forms

• INPUT - Input field, button, etc.
  SELECT - Selection list
  OPTION - Selection list option
  TEXTAREA - Input area

Tables

• CAPTION - Table caption
  TR - Table row
  TH - Header cell
  TD - Table cell

Glossary of HTML terms

• anchor - one of two ends of a hyperlink
• character - letter or a digit, known as an atom of information
• character repertoire - finite set of characters
• element - usually a start-tag and end-tag
• hyperlink - text or image that points to another URL
• markup - syntactically delimited characters added to the data of a document to represent its structure
• tag - a tag includes a name which refers to an element declaration
• URI - URIs in common practice include Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and serves as an identifier for a resource, typically on the Internet.
• user agent - interface for Internet for example, a www browser or a mail user agent
• www - World-Wide Web is a hypertext-based, distributed information system created by researchers at CERN in Switzerland.