A Simple Introduction to HTML

Note: I use these pages in introductory HTML workshops that I occasionally teach. If they're useful to you, go ahead and use them.

--Michael E. Cohen
Webmaster - Center for Digital Humanities

The Introduction Proper

• Part One: Simple HTML Tags
  It may be an ugly page, but there's beauty in the source code, where you'll find comments explaining the essential HTML tags. With these tags you have all you really need to build simple and effective text-based Web pages.
• Part Two: Colors, Lists, Images, Links, and Tables
  Learn how color works on the Web, how to put pictures on a Web page, how to link to other pages, and how tables can help you control page layout.
  
• Bonus JavaScript section: Floating a second window
  I'm frequently asked how to make a second window appear above the main browser window (yes, I know what that says about the kind of life I lead). This trick can be easily pulled off with some very simple JavaScript. Popping a second window up is a useful technique for presenting annotations, illustrations, sidebars, and other things that belong with a page, but not necessarily on the page.
  

Other Information

Questions and Answers: some semi-randomly selected questions about HTML and the Web that I get asked all the time. The page includes my semi-random answers.