Basic HTML Tags

When you are running your own blog or website, it is important to familiarize yourself with the basics of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) as well as other traditional coding languages generally used with HTML, including CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). When you have a website of your own, building HTML tags allows you to share your images and text with ease on any of your website's pages.

Basic HTML image tag

To insert a basic HTML image tag into any of your web pages, simply use:

Replace "myimage.jpg" with the link directly to your own image with a proper web image extension (including .jpg, .gif and .png files). Insert the image tag code into any of your website pages inside the "body" tag to ensure the image loads properly for your website visitors.

HTML link tag

Create a basic HTML link tag by typing:

Place the tag into any portion of your HTML document (inside the "body" of the HTML portion of the page). Replace "linktomywebsite.com" with the actual link to the page you want your visitors to view upon clicking the link. Replace "Title of My Website" with the text you want to appear when clicking on the link rather than the entire link's full URL.

Whether you are interested in sharing content for your visitors to download or you are tying to spread news and information to those involved with your website, building HTML tags allows you to keep a competitive edge over competitive sites both visually and by improving your social networking and marketing abilities.