HTML
Learn about HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language) for developing website easily. I am now telling about HTML:
It was
around 1992, when the World Wide Web was still something most people had never
heard about. A new browser called Netscape 1.0 had come out and I started
studying for a Ph.D. in Communications at a large university in Ohio. During
the first couple of weeks of the semester, everyone wanted to get hooked up to
the school's Internet server so they could send email around. I was the first
to successfully attach. It was more dumb luck than skill. Of
course, that also meant I was the first to be called when someone else couldn't
seem to make their connection. After helping three or four people, somehow I
was given the moniker of Computer Wizard. It was a totally groundless title,
but one I wasn't willing to give up by telling the truth. Word spread to the computer
science department of this great computer guru housed within the Communications
building. They needed someone to teach a section of basic computers. I
nervously accepted. Luckily it was getting to be Christmas break which meant a
month's free time. I had to teach myself the computer. I traded a guy the use
of his computer for a month in exchange for taking care of his cats. When I got
started, however, I found I did have a knack for these fancy thinkin' boxes. I
began to become consumed by what they could do. When school started again, the
Webmaster asked if I wanted some World Wide Web space on their server. At this
stage in my computer learning curve, he might as well have been speaking
Lebanese. But it was free. I took it. My home page was created that afternoon.
I began asking anyone that seemed to have any form of computer knowledge how to
go about making a Web page. Very few were willing to offer any help. It seemed
that if I was going to learn this HTML language that I was going to have to teach
myself.
My first and only home page to this
point existed only on a computer disc. It had clean lines and looked good.
Later in the same day the page was finished, I got into a conversation with the
head of the computer department who asked what I had been up to lately. I
showed her my page. She asked if I would be willing to teach the HTML summer
class.
Sure. Once again, I had accepted a
position I was completely unqualified to perform. I started looking at the
source codes of World Wide Web pages, collecting, categorizing, and
sub-categorizing the commands and what they did. There wasn't a chance on God's
green earth I was going to remember all this, so I wrote seven tutorials
covering seven basic HTML areas. The purpose was to help me remember the required
commands while lecturing.
I also collected a handful of
images that all looked like little pieces of candy, what my father use to call
"goodies." The name stuck. The first "HTML Goodies" page
went up in June of 1994. I figured it couldn't hurt to register the tutorials
with Webcrawler and Yahoo. I had a hard enough time learning this myself. If I
could make someone else's life a little easier, all the better. A month went by
and I received a letter from the Webmaster who had offered me the space in the
first place. He was yelling, as much as one can yell in an email letter, that
so many people were using my site that it was putting a strain on the server.
It seemed that I had built the better mousetrap. People were coming in droves.
The email poured in. People wrote
long, emotion-filled, thank you letters telling me they were happy to have
found a site that showed them HTML in a language they could understand. No one
had yet taken the time to explain the language in simple English, let alone
offer it on the World Wide Web. Others wrote with questions. I started
answering them. Within three months of posting the pages, I was answering 20
questions a day and servicing some 50,000 people a month. And they keep coming.
In November of 1996, the domain
name htmlgoodies.com was born. And in 2001, I sold the site to Jupitermedia's
internet.com, where it remains today.
HTML Goodies now sports over 700
tutorials and services over a million people a month. The first HTML Goodies
book was the culmination of four years of research, hard work, and an untold
number of questions from readers.
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