Welcome to the Red Pepr HTML Tutorial.

This is going to be a little different from many tutorials on the subject that you’ve probably seen out there in the wild. What I’m going to do with this tutorial is cut through the fluff and just present the information you need. Sometimes clarification will be necessary, but the intent here will be to give you the finer points that really make you productive, and keep you in compliance with standards, but that do not dwell on the mundane.

So realistically, I expect you’re here looking for a reference, of sorts. You already understand, for instance, the difference between a plain text file and a word processing document file, and you’ve probably kicked around in several applications on your computer. You’ve surfed the web, and are comfortable with all the richness the web has to offer. You know how to download programs and install them, or how to pop a CD/DVD into a drive and run an install from it. You get the basics. Now you’re interested in working on some web properties, and despite the preponderance of “visual” editors, you would really like to understand, at a meaningful level, the nuts and bolts of this thing we call HTML – the HyperText Markup Language.

There are no stupid questions – I think we all understand that. Each question benefits the everyone in some way, and i do realize that there will be some arriving here that may be looking for a complete cold start. That’s what the comments section of each lesson is for. Jump in and ask questions.