Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours, Seventh Edition

Hour 1Understanding HTML and XHTML

Before you begin creating your own web pages with HTML, you need a little background knowledge about what web pages are, how to view and edit them, and what you can expect to achieve with them. It might also help to have a basic understanding of how HTML differs from XHTML, and why there are two different languages designed to do the same thing—create web pages. This hour provides a quick summary of HTML and XHTML basics, and gives some practical tips to make the most of your time as a web page author and publisher. It’s not all theory, however; you do get to see a real web page and the HTML code behind it.

Try It Yourself

Here’s a review of what you need to do before you’re ready to use the rest of this ...