Hypertext Markup Language (html*) is the type of code used to create web pages.
Examples of this code are:
<b>bold </b> = bold
<i>italics</i> = italics
<a href="http://snhu.edu"> a link</a> = a link
html code for this sentence looks like this:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html">html code</a><b> </b>for this <i>sentence </i><b>looks </b>like <font size="4">this</font>:
More info about html at:
html can can be writen diectly with a text editor or can be generated by an html editor is provides a 'wysiwyg*' interface.
Some common html editors are:
Open Source* and/or free
Commercial
html files usually have an ( .htm or .html ) file extension* . These files can be uploaded from an author's computer to a web server using an FTP program or the publish function of some html editors.