HTML Help For Beginners
Learn Correct HTML Coding For Website Content
Are you just starting out to build a website to help market your services or products? Are you going to do so without hiring a professional web designer to create and upload your content pages?
If so, you're truly not alone. I handle almost all aspects of my websites. It can become quite frustrating, especially in the early stages. You want your website's content to look a certain way, but you don't have the knowledge (yet) to make it happen. You're not an HTML wiz-kid. Well, neither was I.
Many of us rely upon our hosting company's "page builders" or a WYSIWYG editor to build our websites, especially in the early stages. It didn't take me long to realize that there were many instances where I wanted to go beyond the options I had in the page builder I was using. I needed to add special HTML codes to get colors, or symbols for instance, into my Meta tags or content.
In my trials and tribulations to educate myself in HyperText Markup Language codes, I found all the following resources to come to my aid more than just a few times. I do believe those of you who are new to HTML will find all these resources quite helpful, too. These are some great reference pages. I suggest you bookmark them for future use.
HTML Coding Tutorial
Simple Explanations for the Most Common Tags
HTML can seem very confusing, but it is really very simple and logical (once you get the hang of it). This website's tutorials are quite helpful for the beginner and they gave me my jump-start into learning how to hand code HTML. Click here to go to: Annabella's HTML Help
Custom Colors for Your Fonts, Backgrounds, Etc.
HTML Hexidecimal Color Code Charts
These two pages show the actual colors and the HTML codes you'll need to use. Handy for bringing special visual emphasis to headers or sub-headers, for example. Or if you're desiring a color for the background of your website that isn't offered in the page builder's options.
These charts are great and will assist you in designing a more customized appearance to your total website's "Look & Feel".
Go to: Color Chart #1
And here for: Color Chart #2
Special Symbols
Alpha and Numerical HTML Codes
Sometimes you'll need a special symbol, but the only way it will "show up" live on your website's page is to hand code it. For instance, to produce a dollar sign -- $ -- you can use either the Alpha code that is & d o l l a r ; or the Numerical code & # 3 6 ;
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**NOTE: Both codes need to be used WITHOUT the spaces I've inserted. I've done this so that my own page editor doesn't keep changing these codes into the $$ signs.)
Refer to Sections 2 & 3 of the following webpage for an extensive list of HTML codes. Go to: HTML Symbol Codes Cheat Sheet
Good luck with your HTML coding. I an sure these reference guides will prove to be very helpful for you now and in the future.
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