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Create tables is one of the more difficult HTML code to master when making your own website. It is well worth the effort to learn it as it can help you to align each section of your website. You need to think a little bit more abstractly and imagine how the table will look like after you have done the HTML coding.

Some instructional text books said the tables were one of the most misuse codes for HTML. Hey, whatever works to tame your text, graphics and various sections in proper alignment! Read more »

You may want to make a list for easier presentation of information on your website. There are two types of list, unordered bulleted list and ordered numbered list.

To create the unordered list, you will use the “UL” tag together with the list item “LI” tag. There is no need to close the “LI”, as mentioned previously, not every tag will require a closing tag. However, you may still want to close the tag by using “/LI” for the sake of XML convention which requires a closing tag.

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The default text alignment for content in a paragraph is left side. Sometimes you may want to make the text align to the right or in the center. To make the text align to the left or right you include the align attribute to the paragraph tag.

Example, align to left: Read more »

When writing your content for your website, you may want to format your text to emphasize a point and make it stand out from the rest of the content. This is easily done by using the bold tag, italics tag and underline tag. Read more »

The HTML web page is separated into two sections: the head section and body section. Both these section is nested within the HTML tag which identifies the file as HTML code for browsers to recognize it as such.

The HEAD section is where you will provide the TITLE of your web page as well as where you will code the meta tags for search engine robots to determine how they should classify and categorize your web page. The HEAD section is also where you will insert your CSS and JavaScript code to further enhance the webpage. Read more »

You can create a HTML document using any text editor like Notepad, Wordpad for Windows, or Simple Text on the Mac. There is no need to buy any sophisticated HTML software like Microsoft Frontpage or CoffeeCup HTML editor. However, as your needs progress you may want to consider getting one. But meanwhile, any simple text editor will do just fine. Read more »

Let’s face it, even if you are planning to use the provided installation script to make a CMS website, blogging website or use the provided web builder from the web hosting provider, you still have to learn some HTML. There is no escape from getting your hands dirty into coding a web page. Programming a web site is a tedious affair. A page may not look the way you want it to, and you have to spend some time searching through the code to look for the source of error. Read more »