I don't know HTML.So would you tell about the very basic HTML tags that one should know while building a website.
This is about as basic as it gets: <html> (starts a webpage) <head> (starts a webpage's information -- not seen in the browser window) <title>MY WEBPAGE</title> (displays a webpage's title "MY WEBPAGE" -- not seen in the browser window -- only on title bar) <meta name="description" content="Description goes here!!"> (describes what a webpage is about -- not seen in the browser window) <meta name="keywords" content="keywords go here!!"> (describes what a webpage is about in short words and phrases -- not seen in the browser window) </head> (ends a webpage's information) <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000"> (tells the browser to show a white background, black text, blue links, red active links, and purple visited links -- everything from this point is seen in the browser window) <h1>Something Important</h1> (Displays the words "Something Important" in really big letters) <p>... Type content here!</p> (Displays the words "... Type content here!" in a paragraph of normal sized letters) </body> (Ends the part of a webpage that can be seen in the browser window) </html> (Ends a webpage)
nicely explained basic tags @op for building a simple web site, you need to learn tables (<td><tr>) and forms too. just google it and you will get a millions of online help
Get to know CSS after you get the basics of HTML. It will save you time like you wouldn't believe when tweaking and adding more stuff.
NOT that ANY of that belongs in the markup anymore, the bgcolor, text, link, vlink, and alink attributes being something that anyone starting out nowadays should pretty much be told NEVER to use - alongside target, align, and tags like center and font. ZERO place in modern markup and NOTHING anyone should be taught apart from "Don't EVER use those!" completely glossing over what a heading is and what it should be used for - much less that it's bad practice to use H1 more than ONCE on a page, and the lower order headings (h2, h3, h4) should be SUBSECTIONS of the higher level heading preceeding it, and it's also improper to 'skip' over numbers going down the document (that's h2 to h4 with no H3, that's bad. Jumping back up to H2 FROM h4 is fine so long as the headings give your document structure) But that touches on a basic of modern semantic markup many people still fail to grasp. Saying "in really big letters" is something you should NEVER EVER say to a nube, as it implies that's what it's for. Like the majority of tags we should be using them for what they MEAN (semantics) not their default appearance (presentation). Presentation? That goes in the CSS. Basically, it's WAY too easy to oversimplify, leading people down the garden path to bad coding habits and outdated methodologies - which is how you end up with websites still using tables for layout and stuffed full of FONT tags like it was still 1997. A good complete reference to HTML4 (which alongside XHTML 1.0 is ALL you should be using for PRODUCTION websites. HTML5 isnt' even out of DRAFT!!!) that explains what the tags are, has decent examples of their PROPER use, and even lists which ones are deprecated in STRICT doctypes (If you are writing new pages, you should be working in strict, anyone tells you otherwise they've likely not updated their skills in a decade) can be found on the WDG website. http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/ I've never needed more than that for a HTML reference, it's clear, it's concise, it has an index of tags by type and by alpha - what more do you need? ... and if you are just learning, do yourself a favor and immediately click on the 'hide non-strict' elements so you don't try and use stuff that's there for legacy support and has NO **** BUSINESS being used in the development of new pages.
Best solution is W3 schools, they have great HTML tutorial with examples. I've learned all I know from them so it's a friendly advice
The basic tag including <Html> <Title> <Meta> <Body>. <Html> The tag is used to indicate that this is a Html document. most Html document should start & end with that tag. <Title> The title tag is important when it come to search engine ranking. many of search engines pay special attention to the text in the title tag. <meta> the meta tag information is not directly displayed when the page is rendered on the browser. <body> the body tag include the html body of the document. the body tag may contain several attributes.