Introduction

All websites that you visit on the internet today are written using some type of HTML. Although there exist many WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) web page editor out there, it is still a good idea to have at least some knowledge of the HTML that is being used to create a web page. Knowing how to make web pages using HTML will allow you to be independent of fancy web site creation software and you'll also have more direct control over how you want something on your site to be displayed.

But before we get down to the nitty gritty details of how to code in HTML, there are some things that you might like to know about first.

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