What Can You Do with HTML

All right, so HTML isn't the Hideous, Terrible, Mega-Leviathan that its name might suggest, but rather a Harmless, Tame, and Meek Lapdog. What can you do with such a creature? Well, lots of things, actually. After all, people aren't flocking to the World Wide Web because it's good for their health. Just the opposite in fact. They're surfing 'til they drop because the Web presents them with an attractive and easily navigated source of info and entertainment (or infotainment, as the wags like to call it). It's HTML that adds the attractiveness and ease of navigation.

To see what I mean here's some examples of the basic HTML elements.

You Can Format Text

A high Jolts Per Minute (JPM) count is what turns the crank of your average Web-surfing dude and dudette. However, nothing generates fewer jolts (and is harder on the eyes to boot) than plain, unadorned text. To liven things up, you need to use different sizes and styles for your Web page text. Happily, HTML is no slouch when it comes to dressing up text for the prom:

You get six different built-in font sizes that you can use for titles, headings, and such.

You can display your Web prose as bold.

You can emphasize text with italics.

You can make text look like it was produced by a typewriter.

You can even use different font sizes for characters.

You Con Create Lists of Things

If you're presenting information on your Web page, it'll help if you can display your data in a way that makes sense and is easy to read. In some cases, this means arranging the data in lists, such as a numbered list or a bulleted list.

You Can Set Up Links to Other Pages

Web sessions aren't true surfin' safaris unless you take a flying leap or two. I'm speaking, of course, of selecting hypertext links that take you to the far-flung corners of the Web world.

You can give the readers of your Web pages the same kicks by using HTML to create links anywhere on a page. You can set up three kinds of links:

To another of your Web pages.

To a different location in the same Web page. This is useful for pages that contain several sections; you could, for example, put a "table of contents" at the top of the page that consists of links to the various sections in the document.

To any page anywhere on the Web or on your company's intranet.

You Can Insert Images

Fancy text effects, lists, and lots of links go a long way toward making a Web page a hit. But for a real crowd-pleasing page, you'll want to throw in an image or two. It could be a picture of yourself, a drawing the kids made, some clip art, or any kind of electronic image for that matter. As long as you have the image in a graphics file, you can use HTML to position the image appropriately on your page.

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