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If you're a little slow, and you still haven't learned HTML, you've come to the right place! Above all the different programming languages to learn, HTML should be the first one on your list. Anyway, lets get started...
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. To understand this, you basically only need to focus on the Markup Language part. What HTML does to internet pages, is it makes the page more interactive and pleasing to the eye, marking it up from its normal text. How does it do it? Well, it tells the computer reading it how to process the text between the "tags" marking where the change will occur. It then hides the HTML so that only the result can be viewed by the surfer. To truly get a good understanding at what we're looking at, lets take a look at a basic HTML document...

 <--Please Ingnore BR Tags--> <!HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Whatever</TITLE> </HEAD> <!BODY>Helllo World<!/BODY> <!/HTML> 

Each HTML document, like the example above, starts and ends with the HTML tag. This is like a notice to the processor that its writtin and HTML.
Then these two what I like to call "subtags" (HEAD, BODY).
Between the HEAD and /HEAD tags is information that will not be displayed on the page itself. Most people prefer to use the TITLE tag between the HEAD to give the page a name.
The second part I mentioned, the BODY tag, is used to mark the area which will be displayed on the page. This is where HTML gets a little more difficult, because there are so many new tags that can be used in the BODY to do different things like Hyperlinks, Images, and so on. But now that you have a basic idea of how to use HTML, why don't you go straight to the

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