If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start

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HTML GOODIES TO GO NEWSLETTER

If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start

Joe Burns

The Basics
If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start

To the Reader...
These tutorials are set up so you can move through them over a week's time. One tutorial per day. However, if you can go faster, do it! Some have told me that they finished the primers in a day. Good luck.

Primer #1: Introduction This is a basic introduction to HTML and covers what you will need to know to begin writing. If you are reading this, you probably have what you need.

Primer #2: tags
This tutorial introduces you to the placing of HTML tags so you can begin to manipulate text.

Primer #3: Manipulating Text
Learn how to use tags to make text bigger, smaller, or act as a header for your WWW pages.

Primer #4: Linking Pages
This is the hallmark of HTML. Learn how to make a link from your page to any other page on the World Wide Web.

Primer #5: Images
Learn how to place images on your page, get text to wrap around them, and how to use them as links to other pages.

Primer #6: Manipulating Images
Here you'll be shown how to make images bigger or smaller using HTML commands.

Primer #7: You've Graduated!
Here you'll get your diploma, along with some hints on choosing an Internet Service Provider and choosing an HTML Assistant, if you care to use one.