Conclusion

One important topic not covered in the tutorial is HTML Forms. HTML Form elements include textfields, check boxes, buttons, etc -- ones you are probably familiar with. Since they are often used in conjunction with JavaScript, we will save the discussion for later.

Now that you have gone through the entire HTML tutorial, you should be comfortable with the HTML environment. Although creating web sites with Notepad is fun, you'd probably realize by now how tedious and unproductive it can be. Nowadays most people use visual HTML editors that lets you create web pages easily without the hassel of typing in every tags. Here is a brief list of popular HTML editors:

Microsoft FrontPage -- This comes with Microsoft Office. FrontPage provides many functions and is easy to use. The downside is that FrontPage automatically inserts many unnecessary tags which makes the raw HTML code very hard to read.

Netscape Composer -- Composer comes free with the Netscape Communicator package.

Macromedia Dreamweaver -- Another powerful HTML editor, one used to write the tutorial. Since it has so many features, it may be difficult to pick up in the beginning. But once you learn how to use it, it's much better than FrontPage. The downside is that the software is expensive. You can download the free trial-version here.

You can create web pages using these editors without knowing anything about HTML, but most likely they will look simple. Since you've learned the basics of HTML, you can use these editors to help you become more productive. There will be times when you want to enter in HTML codes into the document by hand to control the details. These programs let you alternate between the visual side and the raw code side, which is very convenient.

If you are interested in learning HTML further, there are many books and online tutorials/documentations about HTML. Feel free to use them!


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Last updated September 9, 2000 by Grace Pok