All You Need To Know About Html In One Easy Lesson

Be honest now. If you are reading an article with this title, you probably don't know how to program in HTML, or even read it. If you haven't had the pleasure of seeing what HTML looks like, click on "view" in your menu, and then "page source" or something close to that. You will see a bunch of gibberish looking stuff. Rest easy, though, because here is all you will need to know about it to manage in the Internet marketing world, in one quick, simple lesson.

HTML is simply a set of syntax and rules for defining how a web page will look. Unless you are in the website development business, you can get by if you know these two things.

1. How to make a link. The most used bit of HTML is using it to make a link. The format is:

"a href="yourwebsite.com">your text a/" Note: There will be a "" at the end to tell it where to begin and end.

For example, then, if you have a web page named, "http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jack_Beddall" and you want a link that says, "Articles by Jack Beddall," you would use the following:

href="http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jack_Beddall">Articles by Jack Beddall a/. This would produce a link that said "Articles by Jack Beddall." Clicking on "Jack Beddall" will take you to the URL.

For ease, I keep an Word file (although it could be an Excel file as easily) with two columns. In the first column, I have the name of the text I want to display, and the second column is the link itself. I add one by copying the template syntax to the file, and then filling in the website name between the quote marks, and the text I want to show between the < and >. To make sure it works, I always copy and paste it into my browser before I actually use it. This is in a file called "html links." Whenever I need to place a link in an email or on a web page, I open the "html links" file, copy the link I want, and paste it to where it belongs. The whole process can be done in about 15 seconds.

2. Banners work exactly the same way, with exactly the same syntax. You most likely will never create a banner by yourself, but will get the code from whomever it is that is providing the banner. It will have two parts, an HREF, which is the website it will go to, and an IMG SRC, which is where the banner itself is located. Again, it is simply a matter of copy and paste.

So there you have it. All you need to know about HTML in one easy lesson, and you didn't have to buy a $49 ebook to explain it to you.

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Jack Beddall is an experienced Internet Marketer specializing in resources for the online business person. You can see two of his sites at Successville News and TheOnlineResourceSite.

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