Online Auction Help

Basic HTML - Intro

As I am unsure of your level of knowledge with computers and coding I shall assume that you, like me, are pretty new to HTML. Please forgive me if I appear too "basic" in some of my explanations. It is not my intention to treat you as a fool. It is my intention however to prove to you that HTML is very easy to use for anyone.

In the next couple of pages I have provided some practical tests that you may like to follow. If you would like to follow the tests please open up Notepad so that you can copy and paste as you go along. Notepad can be found easily by clicking on "Start" - "Run" and typing in notepad. Otherwise you shall find it under "Accessories" in your program menu.

Alternatively, you can use this HTML editor as mentioned in the "Getting Started" section.

Copy and Paste

This is the key to creating a website or eBay listing using HTML. If you know how to copy and paste the short way please move on to step 2.

Copy and paste provides a quick method to copy text or a picture and paste it, or "put it" if you prefer, into another document. You can think of it as copying something and then putting it somewhere else.

Firstly, double click, quite fast, on this word - "HTML"

Now HTML should be highlighted.

Press and hold the Ctrl button (bottom left of your keyboard) and at the same time press "c" on you keyboard.

This should now have copied the word HTML.

Now open up a word document or notepad and press and hold the Ctrl button again and this time press "v".

If you have done it right it should have copied the word HTML.

HTML

HTML uses tags. Let me first explain what a "tag" is.

Technical definition - These are formatting codes used in HTML documents. Tags indicate how parts of a document will appear when displayed by browsing software.

My definition - A tag can be thought of as a start and stop command. It instructs the document what to do, when to do it and when not to.

Tags are always found in these "<>"

It may not look like anything much but below is in fact a webpage. Granted it is an empty webpage but it is a webpage non the less.

A webpage is made up of a header section and a body

<html>	This informs the browser that HTML is being used
<head>	This informs the browser that the header starts here
</head>	This informs the browser that the header ends here
<body>	This informs the browser that the body starts here
</body>	This informs the browser that the body ends here
</html>	This informs the browser that HTML is no longer being used

Observe how the tags that begin a command do not have a "/" at the begining. This is important to remember. Closing tags are defined by a "/".

Tags always travel in pairs so if you see a <body> tag you shall know that his buddy </body> shall not be far away.

So now you have the basic structure of a webpage, what should you do now? Click next to find out.

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