HTML5 Beginner Basics #1 - Intro to HTML5

Hi everybody, I've decided to start a new tutorial series today on HTML5. HTML5 is the newest version of HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language) which is the basis of all web development and you can't develop for the web without at least some basic knowledge of HTML. This series is going to be for people who have never touched HTML before and have little to no background in web development. This first video is just an introduction, where I'll explain what HTML is and how it works. If you'd like to get right into developing you can skip to the second video where we will be making our first web page with some very basic HTML, but you'll want a text editor before you start. Let me know what you think about the new series in the comments down below! LINKS: http://www.w3schools.com/ http://www.sublimetext.com/ If you have any other questions just leave a comment in the description below and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. For more information on my work check out my portfolio website: http://brendangamer.com/ Outline: 1 - intro to HTML5 (text editors and browser) Text Editors / Browsers (could use dreamweaver or some more heavy duty editor but not for this and I prefer basic for professional development anyway) Notepad/Notepad++/ Macs TextEdit/ Sublime Text What is HTML - HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language 2012 general page structure (nesting inside each other) HTML tags are keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets: Example Html The DOCTYPE declaration defines the document type to be HTML html and /html describes an HTML document head and /head provides information about the document title and /title provides a title for the document body and /body describes the visible page content h1 and /h1 describes a heading p and /p describes paragraph HTML tags normally come in pairs like p and /p The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag The end tag is written like the start tag, but with a slash before the tag name browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to determine how to display the document Remember for the next video you'll want to have access to a browser and basic text editor