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The Hypertext Markup Language

This chapter introduces HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the system that the Web uses for marking up documents. Later chapters look at the more advanced features such as including images in documents and setting up fill-out forms.

• Overview of HTML
• Getting started quickly
• Structure of documents
• Naming schemes on the Web
  • Syntax of URLs
    • URL-encoding
  • URLs for different information systems
    • HTTP
    • Gopher
    • File Transfer Protocol
    • File
    • News
• Basic HTML elements in detail
  • Comments
  • The DOCTYPE directive
  • The document head
  • The document body
    • Headings
    • Paragraphs and line breaks
    • Special characters
    • List elements
    • Highlighting
    • Block formatting elements
• Hypertext links

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.