HTML

A simple language is HTML: and here are the basics. I won't give any background info, as its all boring stuff that you don't need to know. Get a book for that. Or type HTML in any search engine and prepare to be bored. The current version is 4.0.1.

A quick word on colour. There are several ways you can set colour using three versions.
rgb: Stands for red green blue. Another name is hex, and is set so:#rrggbb. You get the # by pressing option-3. So #0000FF is blue, #00FF00 is green, and #0F0F0F is brown.
English: Well, yellow is yellow. Hard to see, huh? No further input required I feel.

Most tags have to be enclosed, per example:

<html>

Rest of tags

</html>

All tags that are enclosed have a /slash before the actual tag. See above. You do need a text editor that can save as text, and a browser. You don't need to set-up any server, just load the text file into a browser. Anyway, the basics:

<HTML>:This starts the whole page off. You don't have this tag you dont have a web page. Simple as that.

<HEAD>: The 'head' is mainly for JavaScript functions (don't think about it) and can't have any attributes added to it, but you must have this.

<TITLE>: This tag sets the title you see on the grey bit at the top. All you need to do is so:

<BODY> After the head and title are out the way you need to set the actual main part of the page, and this tag can have some attributes, which set parts of the body, mostly colour layouts.

background: Set the background to be repeated all the way through the page. This can either be a URL or a local file, and must be enclosed in quotation marks. So you can have either:

<body background = "boo.gif"> or

Follow are all the colour options you can have:
bgcolor = "rgb/english." Set the colour of the background.
text = "rgb/english" Set the colour of the text. This is only normal text, and is overridden by the color in the font tag. You'll understand soon.
link = "rgb/english". Set the link colour. Unless your background colour clashes with the default leave this.
vlink = "rgb/english". Visited link. Ditto.
alink = "rgb/english". Active link. Same again.

So <body background = "planet.jpg" bgcolor = "#000000" text = "#FFFFFF"> would result in this.

The HTML for that last page is:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" background="planet.jpg" text="#FFFFFF">
Annoying, isn't it?
</body>
</html>

You can check this 'source' by going to view-source, at least on most browsers.

Table

Tag:	What it's used for:	Attributes:
HTML	Start the page off, and finsh it.	None
Head	Start and finish the head of the page.	None.
Title	Put a title on the page.	None.
Body	Start and finish the body.	background, bgcolor, text, link, alink, vlink