Can someone explain HTML to me?

Can some one help me? I want to put this video into my new group The real gilligans island over at myspace and I dont evan know what html is! Its a great video isnt it?

Oh wait should this be in computer help?
Well either way, please help!

It's sort of like the BB code that you use in the fourm but instead of using brackets you use greater than and less than symbols. I can give you a rundown of a few basic ones, but you'll have to pick up a book or find a good on-line site to get really good at it.

Making a link
<A href="http://www.mysite.com">Click here to go to mysite</A>

The "A" is an anchor and the "href" is one of many possible attributes to the anchor.; Notice how we finished with a "</A>" this is the end of the anchor. Everything in between is a link. It could be text or an image.

Images
<Img "http://www.mysite.com/background.gif">

More later...

Ill send you to the same sites that I learned HTML form:

HTML Goodies
W3C HTML/XHTML
Intro to HTML (mind you, its a little outdated, but its good for the basics)

And dbates...your image code is wrong...its:

< img src="http://www.mysite.com/background.gif">

But of course this board makes it hard to post HTML. So there is no space in the first img tag.

[edit on 5-28-2005 by dreamlandmafia]

So how would I make an html code for the video?

Give this a shot.

Oh cool it worked thanks dreamlandmafia

Originally posted by dreamlandmafia
And dbates...your image code is wrong...its:

< img "http://www.mysite.com/background.gif">

You're right, I forgot to put in the "src = " . I could have sworn I did when I posted it. Just because I have my own website doesn't mean I know what I'm doing. I just do this in my spare time. My real job is C++.


EDIT: "src" keeps disappearing. When I quoted you I noticed it was gone.


[edit on 28-5-2005 by dbates]

[edit on 28-5-2005 by dbates]

Thanks for the help guys.

Dreamland I tried using that code for another video
atomfilms.shockwave.com...
But it didnt work. Would I have to change the code?

Croat, that is a flash movie, what I sent you was for a WMV specific movie. When I get home from school Ill have to give you the code for a flash file, if nobody has yet.

I cant post the code directly cuz it screws up..or uplaod a txt file to my server...so ill upload it when I get home.

Okay...give this a shot now.

[edit on 6-2-2005 by dreamlandmafia]

Webmonkey is another good place to learn how to write html of course later on your going to need to get books on html code if you want to learn Javascript.
webmonkey.wired.com...

This is the basic structure of an HTML template (w/o any CSS or other languages)

**Note do not include any spaces within the Tags**

< HTML>

< HEAD>
< /HEAD>

< BODY>
< /BODY>

< /HTML>

Try this one:

< HTML>
< HEAD>
< TITLE> Hello World < /TITLE>
< /HEAD>

< BODY BG COLOR="black">

< CENTER>
< FONT COLOR="red"> Hello World! < /FONT>
< /CENTER>

< /BODY>
< /HTML>

Throw that in notepad and save as "helloworld.html" (include the "")
Double click that *.html file and it should open it up in a browser and display "Hello World!" in red text.


[edit on 043030p://6u21 by Lucid Lunacy]

i'm so tired of the hello world come on man you could have come up with something more jazzy like YO THIS MY HOMEPAGE BEAACH

I can reccomend HTML, XHTML & CSS if you really want to learn the ins and outs of HTML.

I think the 6th edition of this book is out now.