You can build your own Webpage with a WYSIWYG editor that works like a word processor. Webpage Creation Software includes such titles as includes such titles as Adobe Dreamweaver, CoffeeCup HTML Editor, Komodo Edit, and Microsoft Expression Web.
These editors make designing Webpages easy and some have powerful design tools. The disadvantage is that they often hide the actual HTML making direct control of your design more difficult.
For a detailed list, view a Comparison of HTML Editors at wikipedia.
Many serious Web designers use a simple text editor, like Windows Notepad , that gives you full access to the HTML tags. A text editor is different than a word processor. It uses only plain text but a word processor like MS Word contains the text plus formatting details such as fonts, tables, pictures and so on.
This tutorial will show you how you can create web pages with just a simple text editor like Notepad or Notepad++, that are equal to, if not better than the product of expensive software. The two things that you need to supply are a little bit of effort and a lot of imagination.
The letters HTML stand for Hyper Text Markup Language.
Hypertext: click for a definition.
Markup: Web pages are basically text documents. Special codes are embedded in the HTML file to give the document formats like bold or italics. These special codes are called tags.
Language: HTML is not a programming language like C++, Java or Turing. It is a scripting language. This means that the HTML codes that you put in your web page are instructions to another program (the browser) how to format the text.
Web Page CONTENT: Text, pictures, sounds, etc.
TAGS: Tags are formatting codes that tell the browser how to display the content.
A tag is always enclosed in angle brackets ( < > ) and is case-insensitive. This means that it does not matter whether you type the tags in UPPER CASE or lower case letters.
Tags tell the browser how to display the content.
Follow the HTML tutorials at w3schools.com and begin to make experimental Webpages to learn the basic HTML tags.
Here are some Websites that have useful references or interesting information for building Webpages.
Another useful collection of references is sitepoint an online presence for the Australian publisher that specializes in web developer books and online magazines.