The beautiful thing about HTML is - it requires very little to begin. All you need to begin writing in simple HTML text files is a simple text editor. You can download free text editors for both PC's and Mac's.

Here is a step by step guide for those new to HTML coding that I complied through my endeavors to try and learn/teach myself coding:

  1. Open a text editing software
  2. Add the document heading
  3. Save the document with the .html extension
  4. Add a title ('title') tag
  5. Add heading ('h1') and paragraph ('p') tags - make sure to close them!
  6. Add content to the paragraphs
  7. Add images to the page using the ('img') tag
  8. Add lists to the page using the ('li') tag
  9. Add links to outside websites using the ('a') link tag
  10. Link a CSS file to add design elements to your HTML page
  11. Save your document and upload it to your host website