What is website and the use of HTML?

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Before talking about websites, we should first understand what a browser is.  A browser is a software used to open websites and surf the internet. Some popular browsers are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Safari.

When we use a browser, we see different web pages such as Home, About Us, Contact Us, Feedback, Inbox, Outbox, Sent Items, etc. A web page can contain different types of content like text, images, tables, charts, maps, sound, and video.

A website is a collection (group) of related web pages. Here, related means we can move from one web page to another using links.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is used to create web pages. It is the minimum requirement for web development.

HTML uses tags.
Tags are written inside angle brackets < >.

Example:
To make text bold, we use the <b> tag.

<b>some text</b>

This will display the text in bold in the browser.

To format anything on a web page, we use HTML tags.

Simple example of web page is :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=”en”>
<head>
<meta charset=”UTF-8″>
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0″>
<title>Title goes here</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Simple web page</h1>
<p>
Some text goes here
</p>
</body>
</html>

The file must be saved with .html extension (example: index.html).

To see the output, open the file in any web browser.