HTML is a simple language - although some native speakers would argue that so is Swahili - it is made up of characters from your keyboard. No fancy heiroglyphics.Browser software, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, reads the HTML and creates a screen display according to instructions conveyed within "tags" in the HTML. These tags tell the browser how to display text and colored areas, and how to import and display pictures in specified ways to create eye-pleasing web pages. You can view the HTML code of any web page by right-clicking on a blank area of the web page, then selecting "View Source" or "View Page Source". A new window will open and you will see the HTML code.

You can learn HTML by saving this code to your computer and experimenting with it. Pick a simple-looking page to start with, preferably a home page. Home pages are very often named "index.htm" or "index.html." With the source code visible on your screen, you can save the web page to your computer by clicking "File/Save As" or "File/Save Page As". When you do this, place it in a new folder. Thus will help keep your learning project organized.