Have you ever wondered how web pages are written? Html is basically the building blocks of the internet as we know it. It is not a programming language, but more of a markup language, which means it changes the way how information is displayed on the screen. Be Your Own IT walks you through just the basics of how html works and how you can use it.

For this tutorial, we recommend using html in a program called Notepad++. It’s considered to be a little more advanced than regular Notepad.

The first rule in html is that everything must have an opening tag and a closing tag. As you will see in the video, if you are writing a paragraph, it is opened with a <p> and closed with a </p>. The heading tags are used with an h, for example <h1>, <h2>, <h3>.

If you would like to embed a YouTube video into your site, all you need to do is go to the YouTube Video, click on embed, and it will give you the embedding code where you can directly paste that into your html.

For image hosting, we recommend using Tinypic.com. Here all you need to do is put in your picture, and click upload now. TinyPic will give you the html code where you can select and paste into your html.
Now you will see the object you just pasted into Notepad has a link in it. This format with <a href is essentially how you open a link and </a> is how you close it.