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For a web page to be displayed by your browser instructions are needed. That serie of instructions will inform browser how to display, where to display, the size, the color, etc... These instructions are writen on plain .txt, doc, pads, notebook, etc...

These instructions are commands to be executed by an entity (not a ghost), the entity in the case of webpages is your browser and some software like frontpage that acts like a browser. Your browser understands HTML as language, like you understand english, so if this site was in german or chinese, you couldn't understand and do the things that this site is all about. In the same way your browser couldn't figure out what to do if I wrote this page in C++ or Pascal.
In a funny way, the whole window that you are looking at right now with buttons and everything was written in C++ but what you see inside in HTML.

In HTML these commands are called 'tags'. All tags are inside < >. Almost all sentences begins with an opening tag and needs its closing tag. like:

<html>
        <head>
        <title>Title of page</title>
        </head>
        <body>
        Anything in the body will be displayed
        on screen in the browser.
        </body>
        </html>

As you can see every opening tag "<tag>" needs its closing tag "</tag>". There are some exceptions in HTML but not in XHTML like I said earlier which is more strict than HTML.

In the frontpage interface you can switch between HTML view and friendly interface view. As you set up your first pages you should look in HTML view to compare the code with what you are doing in the friendly interface. That is a good way to learn the code.

What is the friendly interface in frontpage?
The friendly interface is, instead of having to code everything and know the language, an interface with menus to choose color, background color or image, text-format, font-size, font-color, etc... It is also click and drag table, borders, etc... So you dont have to code anything.
So why bother learning the code?
Actually, sometimes it's not doing exactly what you want, close but not perfect. To most of the stuff it is perfect, but some stuff are more acurate when coded. Also if you are good at typing on the keyboard, you'll save a lot more time typing the code then having to cycle through all the menus to find what you are looking for. Further more, when you'll be adding script and other type of coding, knowing the code is a time saver.

A few websites offer complete tutorials on how to code using HTML. Once you get the pages done, there is still a lot you can do to make your web pages more dynamic. Which means that you can change the plain book like display of a website to a more dynamic, interactive and enjoyable place to be. Inside a HTML document you can add scripts that will transform the whole look of a page to something way more attractive to viewers. Then again, a lot of website specialize in writing, getting from other users and storing them for you to use on your pages with a comment that states the author. But that can`t be seen in the browser.

If You want to write your pages using .asp or .php, you will need to get really good at writing in HTML because you will be stuck writing your pages on a plain text editor. So a in between step will be to learn XHTML and then .asp or .php. The bottom line is that if you give them a try you will find over time that no language is impossible to learn. As I remember, the only language I had it hard at the beginning was C++, but after a few programs and a few night with a warm mug of coffee it all came clear. By the way you won't need C++ to build a website besides if you are creating a software that you want to sell over the internet.

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