While many guides on the internet attempt to teach HTML using a lot of mind-blowing theory, this tutorial will instead focus on giving you the practical skills to build your firs site.

The aim is to show you how to create your first web page without spending the entire tutorial focusing too much on the why.

By the end of this tutorial, you'll have the know how to create a basic website and we hope that this will inspire you to delve further into the world of HTML using our follow on guides.

What is HTML?

HTML stands for HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE and HTML also known as markup language that is different from a programming language. Now, What is markup language?, What is Hypertext? How is it different from programming language? Let's explain each term and start our HTML tutorial:

Hypertext: Hypertext means, text with a link embedded in it. if you click on that link, it will open a new webpage. Apart from text, hypertext may contain HTML tables, HTML lists, HTML forms, HTML images etc.
Markup language: Markup language uses tags to define elements within a document. It contains familiar words that are human-readable like form, table, links, title etc. Every tag in a markup language has a special meaning of its own and perform a particular operation.

Short History Of HTML

Let's quickly see the historical facts about HTML-

Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed HTML in late 1989, and he is considered as the Father of HTML.
In 1996, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) become the authority to maintain the HTML specifications.
It became as international standard (ISO) in 2000.

Some Features Of HTML

Before diving deep into this complete HTML guide, it is necessary to get some fundamentals right. As a beginner, you should be aware of features and functionalities of HTML. Only then you will be able to take interest in HTML coding. Let's discuss the most important features of HTML:

It developes the structure of webpage. All the blocks and elements present in website, exist because of HTML.
Simple human-readable tags represent elements in webpage. Hence, they are easy to remember.
It is universally supported by all browsers. It is a standard markup language for website development.
HTML 5 can give support in enhancing the experience in gaming arena.
It is easy to learn and implement.
It is platform independent, i.e. , it works on all the operating systems.

Advantages Of Learning HTML

Originally, HTML was developed to define the structure of webpages. It had some basic tags just for structural changes like heading tag, paragraph tag, list tag. However, continuous research and advancement in technology helped it develop over the years. Let us see some Advantages of HTML:

It has tags that optimize the website for search engine and boost performance. These tags are <meta> tags, <heading> tags, <title> tag, etc.
It is base of designing and developing web pages. Once you get its basics right, other related technologies like Javascript, CSS, etc become easier to understand.