1 00:00:02,093 --> 00:00:02,926 Now that we have 2 00:00:02,926 --> 00:00:04,867 our super text editor installed, 3 00:00:04,867 --> 00:00:06,700 let's talk about HTML. 4 00:00:07,586 --> 00:00:12,207 Now, this HTML section together with the CSS section 5 00:00:12,207 --> 00:00:15,992 is designed to get you started for our big web page project 6 00:00:15,992 --> 00:00:18,430 that we will be working on later. 7 00:00:18,430 --> 00:00:21,657 Here, we will just cover some very basic things, 8 00:00:21,657 --> 00:00:23,910 like the structure of any web page, 9 00:00:23,910 --> 00:00:27,904 how to use headings, paragraphs, images, and links 10 00:00:27,904 --> 00:00:29,904 just to get you started. 11 00:00:31,688 --> 00:00:34,103 But let me first show you what we'll build 12 00:00:34,103 --> 00:00:38,270 in this section and in the next one using HTML and CSS. 13 00:00:39,490 --> 00:00:43,657 It's a very, very simple, fake blog post web page. 14 00:00:44,574 --> 00:00:48,741 But it looks pretty cool for a first web page, right? 15 00:00:50,044 --> 00:00:52,761 So, starting with HTML. 16 00:00:52,761 --> 00:00:55,344 But first of all, what is HTML? 17 00:00:56,267 --> 00:01:00,447 HTML stands for hyper text markup language. 18 00:01:00,447 --> 00:01:02,119 So it's a markup language and 19 00:01:02,119 --> 00:01:05,119 not actually a programming language. 20 00:01:07,297 --> 00:01:11,523 HTML documents are described by HTML tags 21 00:01:11,523 --> 00:01:14,147 like these three you see here. 22 00:01:14,147 --> 00:01:18,163 Each HTML tag describes a different type of content 23 00:01:18,163 --> 00:01:21,413 such as headings, paragraphs, or links. 24 00:01:22,297 --> 00:01:26,464 We use tags to markup the beginning and end of an element. 25 00:01:27,702 --> 00:01:30,906 Each element is written with an opening tag 26 00:01:30,906 --> 00:01:35,272 and a closing tag, with the content in between. 27 00:01:35,272 --> 00:01:37,570 So the closing tag is just the same as 28 00:01:37,570 --> 00:01:40,320 the opening tag but with a slash. 29 00:01:41,471 --> 00:01:45,638 We will see all of that when we start real coding. 30 00:01:46,858 --> 00:01:50,040 And web browsers such as Google Chrome 31 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,849 can read HTML files we code 32 00:01:52,849 --> 00:01:56,349 and translate them into visible web pages. 33 00:01:57,637 --> 00:02:00,841 All right, now that we know what HTML is, 34 00:02:00,841 --> 00:02:05,008 we can move on to some real coding in the next lecture.