HTML or HyperText Markup Language is a simple computer programming language. Unlike Java or BASIC, HTML is used to display text and images in a certain pattern for the viewer. Essentially, when you publish webpages on your own website or other online websites, you hyperlink texts, give images to describe the texts, and connect the text with other landing pages; the links you use for this are HTML tags. It acts as a connective link to hold images and text together at the right place. In an HTML file, you first have to develop the text for display and underline the areas where you want to insert the HTML tags.
Placing the Links
- To link a picture, use <img> between <a> and </a>. You can bold the link to make it easily identifiable by the user. To follow the link, users have to click on the picture.
- To link an email, use href code. For instance, you can use the code – <a href=”mailto:email-address” >”text” </a>.
- To create a link between pages or to some other site, you can use the code – <a href=”web address” >HTML list/a>.
Tips for Making Better HTML Pages
- After you have created the page with HTML tags, check the page in a variety of windows to make sure the page is displayed wholly in all of them.
- Don’t use formats like “colors” on web browsers that does not support them. Alternatively, you can ask friends or colleagues to check out the HTML pages and see whether all the links are working.
- If you have a website with a lot of related pages, then you have to allow intuitive navigation among them.
- Use HTML codes that can be easily understood and edited, if the need arises. Difficult codes are hard to understand and will require a lot of time to correct them.
- Include the width, height and all attributes when using the <img> tag in web pages.