HTML, DHTML, XML

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is the language of the Worldwide Web, one of the more prominent parts of today's Internet. HTML is the language all web pages are written in, in one form or another. Even pages that contain animation's such as Flash or other multimedia, have to contain some HTML language so your browser can interpret the commands correctly.

HTML is a series of tags and commands written in a text format, that a web browser processes, and then displays the resulted output onto your monitor. HTML can be written via a text editor such as Windows notepad, or a UNIX editor such as Pico or vi. Anyway you write it, it boils down to simple text. Embedded in the text is calls to images, tables, forms, just about anything. HTML has been around for quite some time now, and new HTML 'versions' are coming out all the time that include newer commands, and revised older commands. Newer versions of web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are released all the time to support newer HTML standards.

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