HTML Introduction: How to Code a Simple Web Page 

21 minutes later and HTML is no longer (to me) a language native to another star system. Your presentations are excellent.

Two geniuses at work: Sir Tim Berners-Lee who invented it, and Chris the best explainer on the planet.

Yesterday I was making webapplication in php, and yet, I'm watching Christopher talking about HTML. I'm such a fan!

A few years ago I took a two-day class on HTML. I just learned a lot more in this video than in that class. Thank you Professor!

It’s like watching a time machine back to the 90s! I started building sites back then before web editors were available.

At least this proves Christopher is human after all and not the super AI android we have suspected for many years :-) Or is he, and this a ruse to throw us off the scent? Hmmm :-) Thanks for re-uploading....

This was a pleasant surprise(nostalgic for many of us) Christopher! I thought I need not see this video. But when I saw it from a beginner's perspective, I was amazed by the simplicity of your explanations. Good going Professor!

Memories :-) In the beginning of the 90ies being an assistant to the professor the whole thing evolved. I remeber those times when I started with notepad to create my first web pages. Thank you for this video!

Kind of knew about this basic stuff nearly 20 years back, but it went half-forgotten. It was nice to freshen it up, and it was an entertaining, uncomplicated although informative kind of content I really enjoyed, especially these hard times we are going through. Thanks once again!

These videos are soothing like asmr, a joy to watch even though I know html stuff. It is exciting!!

I practiced web coding in Codecademy 3 years ago which is a significant website, but your tutorial makes HTML look easier with the demonstrations. Thank you.

Thumps up if you remember making web pages with Netscape Composer or MS FrontPage Express.

So I watched this yesterday and when it came to end it was no more, and my face was 😶 where did it go . Nice to see it's back. I decided about 15 years ago to give HTML a try and started making my own very basic web pages / sites as weekend hobby, knowing the basics kept me working when my usual job with as estate sales administrator started to go pear shaped. I went on to using Dreamweaver and pulled through. But if I hadn't had the basics I would not have convinced I was a member worth keeping, albeit 6 months more but time to find my feet and then go self-employed. How a little can go far. So this brings a mixed good memory of surviving a difficult time. Thanks as always.

A fantastic straight forward, no nonsense info tutorial Chris. Thanks for taking the time. 👍🏻

I took a semester-long class, and this guy explained it better in 20 minutes

I learned HTML when I was very young, but I left it at that and didn't really write any more code for many years. Now I'm learning JavaScript, and this video was very useful as a refresher on HTML. Thank you!

In my fourth quarter of computer, they said i will have to make a website myself. I was dumbfound at first, but when i first clicked on this video, its like as if i already know how to make a good web page! this video is one of the best web page tutorials u can find, easy to understand, and i really love the way you made things easy to learn! Thanks from the Philippines!

Perfect timing, was looking for a simple HTML tutorial for my class this week!

I studied HTML in high school back around 2001, and while my memory of it is really rusty, this was a nice refresher. Thanks for that!

Very well explained. I didn't had any knowledge of html but after 21 minutes of watching this video I am able to make a simple website

Hi Chris. I learned this about 25 years ago. Been paid to do it for over 20. Still, you had my full attention for 20 minutes and 55 seconds. I find that a bit odd but very funny :D

Genius man you are. Honestly I have learned more in 20 minutes watching this video then weeks reading or watching other videos. Thank you so much and I look forward to a video about CSS.

Took me back 20 years and made me grin! I love your videos Chris, Linux, HTML (event BSD UNIX recently) your videos show how much and how little has changed. Time to make an introductory video on C perhaps? Could use OS's inbuilt compiler.

Takes me back to the early 1980's and using WordStar word processor on an 40 column non WYSIWYG screen. If you forgot to use the end tag on any action like bold, italics or underline it would run through the final document print out. Happened many times through the average day. Amazing how far we've come.

The information and concepts presented in this video are things, which I would have considered in the past, to be too cumbersome or time consuming to learn. Yet, ignoring introductions and conclusions, in under 20 minutes I have learned something which I never thought I would have learned in this lifetime. I don't know if I will ever create a web page, but what I do know is that if I ever decide to undertake such a task, it will not be as time consuming or as daunting as I would have believed in the past. Thank you for this. I am sure the University of Nottingham very much misses your guidance and expertise with students of all ages. On a completely unrelated note, as part of Easter dinner, I baked a Strawberry/Rhubarb Pie with a butter flavoured lard crust -- something I am presently experimenting with. My socially isolated family and myself really seemed to enjoy this. I look forward to you baking Raspberry Pie during the mid summer. Stay safe. Stay healthy.

I am a senior software engineer and a university lecturer still watch your videos and enjoy your delivery.

This was actually my first time doing any sort of coding and I managed to make a little random website about sharks. Thanks for the help!

HELPED ME IN CREATING MY OWN WEBPAGE FOR MY SCHOOL HW. REALLY GOOD VIDEO

Chris, not to put any pressure on you my friend, but this weekly dose of very interesting tech knowledge is a very big part of my life mate. Even throughout the week my mind often asks itself "have you seen this weeks EC?" The reason i'm saying this brother is to let you know how appreciated you are. You're making the world a better place and if everyone was like you it would be perfect. A massive THANK YOU Chris - from all of us.

yes, this was very useful. I remember when html was all the rage and i taught myself by trial & error, looking at a few books and experimenting. it was quite fun when useful results were produced. then came along Dreamweaver and many other fast track web design programs that made things easier but in the process created some dissociation with the original structure and intent of html. it is nice to be reminded of the underlying structure and realize that the essence of the design can be created in such a simple manner. please continue with this topic as it leads into CSS and other later developments. thanks for lessons.

I used to teach HTML back in the day, a nice blast from the past, but still completely relevant today, thanks 💻📀🖨🖥

I learned this back in 2005 when I was around 14, and also learned CSS. There was this website called W3Schools and was pretty good for learning web languages the practical way. Knowing this has been very useful. Even if the web has changed a lot since then and no longer you need to know this, it is always useful one way or another. I don't know what the problem was in the previous video, just I hope you can recover from that. As always, thanks for teaching us all so diligently. Knowledge is power.

I am very impressed. Very professional, informative, direct and to the point. Before this video, I never gave much attention to HTML at all. I will now. Thank you.

Starting from scratch is always better than using those websites on how to make a website..they are so limited! Geez now I have to find my folder on my old XP machine I saved it on when I made webpages. Thanks Chris for giving me an extra project lol.

I just in morning searching for the courses to become a web developer actually i have completed a certification course in web designing and really you have explained every single bit of a beginning of html and i just wanted to learn to create a dynamic website designing with mysql and java,html,css from you sir please post a full course video series for that. Thank you sir @ExplaningComputers.

Very nicely explained! Takes me back to 1995 when I taught myself basic html and wrote my first very crude webpage in Notepad!

Back in the 90s, I created webpages using html for myself and others, but then the technology seemed to change and I felt like my pages were going to be left behind. Life happened too and so I stopped creating webpages. But I have recently wanted to restart my own website again and thought I would have to pay someone else to do it. This video gives me confidence to again create my website with html, since I already know it... after some knowledge refreshing. Thanks!

Thanks for the update Chris. Have a safe and relaxing weekend and we will see you next Sunday.

i really like how you explain things. You're a fun teacher, i like the style. Please do, not only a more in depth explanation oh html, but also i'd love a CSS tutorial

I just feel like an HTML pro spending 20 minutes to watch this. Thank you, sir, this video is VERY!!! informative

Here i am restoring my comment 😁 "I made few robots and i controlled them using HTML/javascript webpage" And now watching video 👍

I feel like I understand a new language after 20 min. Thank you

Another fantastic, clear and concise video. The 23 thumbs down are (I presume) from those on-line tutors charging silly money to teach this same information but less well......

This brought back many memories from high school. I use google's blogger because I don't need a site but due to the nature of my work, I should have a page for namesake. This video made me invest a little bit of time and money on making my own website. Thanks Chris for another great video.

I recognise some of these HTML tags from all the times I've inspected a website and changed text and images.

Your knowledge of things blows my mind. Excellent video. I would love to see more videos like this one. Thanks.

Why didn't you publish this excellent tutorial 24 years ago, when I needed it most! HaHa! You're amazing, Christopher. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

You are one of the best professional presentrs. Your presentations are neat and easy to understand by viewers

Wonderful, Chris. This is a bright ray of intelligence on RU-vid on coding and it is appreciated. I have most of your books and will now scour Amazon for anything I may have missed Please be SAFE!

Super useful for starters, very good explained and structured. This video is so underrated, i feel like more people should start watching and sharing these videos. Edit: Grammar

I first learned some HTML from a guide on Neopets when I was just about a teenager and went on to code a little fanpage for a TV show character I was brainrotting hard over at the time. Alas, I'm still on training wheels about a decade later and have since attempted to write a full-blown website, failed, forgot about it, and then recently remembered that I had one, and decided to give HTML another go. This really helped a lot and I've had a good afternoon of writing HTML and going nuts with the

even thought i already made my own webpage (its about to get on web) i will still watch this video cuz i like this guys videos and maybe i missed something when making webpage

This video reminds me of when I wrote simple web pages back in the day before CSS... Thanks, Christopher :)

HTML is indeed a very straightforward programming language, but quite a few people aren't aware of that. Your explanations take the 'voodoo' out of it, which is a very good thing. :-D Please do carry this into CSS. I can't think of a better way for the inexperienced to get a broader sense of how web pages work, and your illustrations are a great help for it. Thanks for another great video Chris.

Thanks after this video HTML it's like I have learned all cod in I video This guy thought me my 12th std celebs in 21 mint big thanks to you❤

This explanation helped me out a lot in learning the HTML language and now I make cool web pages. Thanks a lot CHRIS.

Thanks so much for the video. You really are the best channel around. I trust all your reviews and teachings!

What a quality video. So clear and precise. Thank you so much!

Great introductory video on HTML. Like how you demo in Notepad, which really shows the simplicity to get started. After that you can build on your own creativity.

This video has peeked my interest, I will in the futrue learn HTML for personal use, but may (hopefully) use it in my professional life. Thank you for another eye opening video! I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge!

Kudos! You took a very intimidating subject and empowered me in less than 1/2 an hour👏🏼

Fantastic video i literally know nothing about coding until this, so i designed a webpage for fun since im interested in learning the skill. This info goes the distance!

This video makes me interested in html. Thanks for your generosity for teaching us such a good thing even though it's kinda outdated. But as a newbie, this channel helps me to learn most of the knowledge of computers. Glad I found your channel, Sir. You're the best!

Came back to see this and enjoyed every minute. Thanks.

I have written any HTML for 20+ years. It's amazing how much this video jogged my memory. It's really inspired me to get back into it and have a tinker. Thank you very much sir!

Been teaching my grandsons this very same basic notepad html web page creation. Kids today are unbelievably quick to pick this stuff and run...once you get use to the code it just comes natural. LOL... When I first started in the early 90's it was Egyptian hieroglyphs...😎

Much better than a “for dummies” book guide. Always explained and delivered clearly and in a way thats easy to understand. This is exactly the kind of thing i needed when i first got an internet connection (freeserve dial up, remember that!?). The other thing i didn’t understand back then was what FTP was or how to make a webpage publicly available online. Not that i need to know now but it could make a nice follow up video?

You sir have saved my life in my college classes. I'm greatly appreciative.

I know this is a super late comment but just wanted to say this has helped me tremendously thank you!

Simple and Precise. Thanks, Mr. Chris

Nice video Chris. Like some of the other commenters i knew all the HTML info but i did not know you can upload the whole lot to Amazon and get them to serve it. That is awesome information thank you. Dropbox used to do it using a Public Folder but they stopped it for some reason and i think that's what discouragedme from making anymore websites and pages. I hope Amazon keep it going. Thanks again Chris - stay safe mate.

That was a hell of a lot of fun. Something to mess around with until they let us roam free again. Thanks.

So easy explanation sir, thanks. I am no related to computer knowledge but after saw this video, I am sure to make my own webpage till next Sunday.

Back to the past! I still remember that time!

I'm from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳 and HTML is my tommoro practical and you're really explain clearly thanks a lot sir 🙏

Been years since I last made a web page with HTML. Perfect time for a refresher. **Like riding a bicycle, I guess. Hadn't forgot as much as I thought :)

Thanks for all videos full of concise and distilled information which are very helpful to develop understanding on computers I have watched most of your videos and seen that likes around ten thousands. But frankly İ say yours are the most useful videos ever i have seen on this platform. Please go. As an examplar i resolved html with this video in couple of mins. Thank you

Nice content. It's a good video to kickoff someone's html learning journey.

This is the best method of making web pages, I have used it for years. I do not recommend the lazy wysiwyg editors. They throw up all sorts of errors in the real world.

The best html lesson! I can't even describe what I feel now. Why don't you make any more of coding lessons?

Great job! This is refreshing video, that make you understand easily the introduction of HTML, thank you.

Remember when we could use HTML and CSS to create dynamic overlays to boring social media pages? Fun times... Great primer on HTML.

This had precisely everything I needed! How to show links and open them in a new tab.

Thanks Chris! Please continue the HTML series!

thank a lot! It is my first video about html language and your explanation is super easy

Great tutorial! It was very easy to follow and it gets right to the point.

Excellent explanation from an excellent educator. Reminds me of my days in the academy.

Thank you so much this is amazing. If you're thinking of making this a web series please go for it. If not thank you for helping me to achieve a childhood dream of being able to code/markup a webpage.

I liked the presentation. I was surprised when it began with the html tag. But there's nothing wrong with that. I commend your choosing to do a video on this topic. Simple HTML files should run in any browser on a decent operating system - today and tomorrow. Like comma-separated-values files. One can do a lot, and easily share, with only - HTML, CSV, PNG, and PDF. (I don't know about video.) Thank you for choosing to do a video on this topic.

Fantastic. Meticulously explained as usual, so much so that the only mistake I made was to spell correctly. 😉

Wow - while you weren't looking I liked your video. You have inspired me to and learn html - thank you.

dude you are a whole decade late on it but still appreciate it. Please make CSS and JS tutorials with html web page designing as they are more used today instead of only html tags. :D

Thanks Christopher 👍 clear and consistent as always!

I wrote tons of html back in the 90s. Before that I used to write documents using troff on a Unix time share system. Markup languages got cool.

LOT'S OF LOVE FROM INDIA THIS HELPED ME A LOT AND I UNDERSTOOD THE HTML AS I AM IN CLASS 7 IT HELPED ME

Broke this down nicely I appreciate you!!! Thank you

This really does highlight how HTML has changed and evolved in the last 20 years. In the early days, you had to specify styling every single time where you wanted it to occur, imagine the time it would take to maintain dozens of pages. Fancy doing a lesson on CSS, Chris? I think people will get a good kick in simplifying their code with the code-once-apply-many principle! ;)

Great intro thanks, A printable reference page of commands used would be very helpful. I hope to see a further videos with more simple demos.

Thankyou so much this vid was really helpful.I cant believe that this vid got only 82k views .It should have gotten at least a million

Again, let me thank you for the knowledge!! I'm already applying it as I started buiding my own web page!