If you'd been digging up deeper into blog creation, you've probably come across the term HTML. You keep reading about it but probably don't understand what it's all about. I didn't, too, when I was first trying out blogging and website creation and management. But the experts all said you have to have a working basic knowledge of it. So, on my own, I studied about it.
That's the wonder of the internet. You don't have to enroll in webinars or classes just to learn things. If you are resourceful enough and spend time to seriously learn things, you'd learn everything you need to know about blogging on Youtube and other places on the Net. And that goes for other topics as well, not just blogging. You save money. But there's nothing wrong with seeking help if you don't have time to research and you want to get to the bottom of things pronto. Like HTML.
Actually, it's among powerful web and blog tools not just for professional website creators but for blogging beginners as well, if they wanted to get more creative with their blog sites, even if they're free blogs. For starters, HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, a cyberspace "language" understandable to website internal systems used for site creation, specifically for making stuff come live on a website or blog site.
It's what you use to start websites from scratch, but it's also for developing your site or adding elements to it that basic templates do not make readily available. It's not a programming language--it's merely used as a markup language for markup tags. Markup tags are what designers use to define websites. They instruct web browsers details about displaying texts, for instance, how they should look, how big, in what type and what color. The same with images, videos and other multimedia. It's a bit easy because HTML is text-based.
If you look inside the system of a website (see picture above) and look at the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) of a web page you'd see definitions of that webpage in HTML. Mostly you'd see something like these:
<html> <body> <p> </p>
These are the HTML tags. Web designers use them to build websites. Combined with other tags a website slowly takes form and becomes attractive when released or published live on the Net even becoming a potential marketing tool. You don't have to know them all if you're not into website building, and if you wish to build your own website there are templates with easy-to-use admin and cpanel boards. Bloggers don't have to be an HTML expert, unless you want to do an entire business on it.
If you're just a simple blogger like me, all you need to do is learn some basic HTML usage. HTML is used for getting a graphic to work on your site. That graphic can be a widget, app, or image--often an ad image. If you want your site to look more interesting with colorful images and flashing graphics, get their HTML and copy-paste on an HTML window provided on your site back office.
Here’s a basic example of an HTML content:
<a href=
Then, it may be followed by this:
"http://www.slogbhop.com/gp/product/0470537558/ref=
It may also contain this:
width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
Looks dauntingly complicated. But don't let it bother you. It describes a webpage where you'd be directed once you activate it or "click here." As aforementioned, the HTML above also describes the features, size, font, color, etc. of the image or graphic that your blog face will convert from HTML, giving you a readable content. To make it simpler, it's like telling a website system how you want the website to appear. Something like this:
"I want a header with this size and color and with these elements--a graphic picture, the title, and a description of the title below. For the tab, I want 5 buttons with this size and color and font, and the first button is the 'Home.' Then I want 2 columns for the body," and so on. You're like instructing the web system how you want your website to appear, but you use HTML language because it's what the system understands.
Once you copy-paste that HTML on the HTML mode of your blog and switch it back to your normal readable mode, what you'd get is something like what you see now on this blog article. See? Now I have website or blog site that is easily recognizable and readable to my readers, compared to when it was yet in its raw HTML form above. If you click on a button or banner or link on the blog it will instantly bring you to another world--to another website--which has a relevant content to what I'm discussing here. How is that possible? Because the HTML used has a hyperlink or link included in the HTML.
The same operation happens when you click on a banner link or a link with an image. That link has an unseen HTML inside or embedded in it, seen only if you open its HTML mode. That link, like a link that says--SEE MORE-- or a more defined link like this: HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies,
Thus, for a more captivating selling on your site, learn more basic usages of the HTML language. Better yet, practice installing them on your websites and blogs. So, start your own business blog now!
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