If you've read the basics about HTML (which you should) you've learned that if you want to make an italic phrase you've got to use the HTML-tag for italic. And the same goes for i.e. bold. If you want to make a phrase bold you use the HTML-tag for bold (<B>bold</B>).

This should probably raise a a new question:

Q: Where do I get all the different tags and do I have to remember all these different tags to make a webpage?

A: Well, if everyone had to know HTML to make a webpage, there would probably be alot fewer pages on the net. Cause it is in fact possible to make a webpage without any knowledge to HTML. If you've just read the basic-section, (which (I repeat) you should) you might be angry cause you think it was a waste of time, but it wasn't. Let me tell you why.

The ones who don't know HTML use something called a HTML-editor. This is a program that makes all the HTML-tags for you or helps you remember the tags, all depending on how advanced the program is. The really advanced ones make the making of a webpage as easy as making an ordinary text-page. But here's the dark-side:

The editor will often make more tags than necessary, which results in a webpage that uses more disk-space. Because you often are offered a certain amount of disk-space on the net to display your sites, you migth not be able to display all the information you want, because of the many tags. Unnecessary tags will also delay the loading of the page (people migth leave because of the long loading-time.)

The editor can often be complex and hard to understand and that's not something you need when you want to make your first webpage.

The editor may not know all HTML-tags (HTML is a language in development) and this leaves you with not being able to do what you want beacause you don't know the tags.

Some HTML-editors are relly expencive !

This I why I don't recommend a advanced HTML-editor for beginners. But when you get a a bit more experienced it's really nice to have it so you won't have to write i.e. all the table-tags.

A beginner who's just learned the secrets of HTML can also use a HTML-editor, but the editor should then have some special features. I recommend these:

It has to support the user writing his/her own tags paralell with the program inserting tags.

It should have the support for all the basic tags and display them so that the user can see which tags that do what and learn from this.

I should be easy to understand and don't have any unnecessary features that make the program more difficult to use.

And then there is the final option. Finding that tags youself and remembering them. I won't lie to you, there really exists alot of HTML-tags, but they really aren't all that hard to learn. Besides, most of the tags are written in almost plain english, or are otherwise logical. And you really should know the basic HTML-tags.

That's why I've created the HTML-library. Be sure to visit it. I'm sure you'll find it useful.