HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a computer language. Like other computer languages, it is used to create something. HTML has been designed to create one thing though, and that is web pages. HTML is relatively easy, compared to some other computer languages, and the basics of HTML can be learned in as little as ten or twenty minutes. Also, anybody is able to create web pages using HTML, as long as they have Internet access.

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. Hyper Text is the organization of information units into connected associations that a user can choose to make. Markup Language is how to display the objects. Therefor, HTML is the organization of data displayed onto a web page.

The main purpose of HTML is to create web pages. Through a series of commands, known as HTML Tags, the writer creates their web site just by typing in text.

If you have a computer with Internet access, you will be able to write HTML.

HTML, like all languages, takes time and patience to learn, but, compared to most other computer languages, HTML is rather easy and doesn't take nearly as long to learn.

Starting from scratch, a user can learn and understand the basics of HTML in as little as ten to twenty minutes. However, it may take years at perfecting their HTML code, and learning all the tags in HTML. To have a good understanding of HTML, it would probably take around ten hours to learn.

Two things make up all HTML documents. Tags and text. Tags are similar to commands, they tell the web browser to find a picture, make a table, define the format for text, and many other things, depending on what tag is used. The text part is just the writing you see on web pages. Throughout this tutorial, you will be learning new tags, and exactly how to use them, and how to type them in.