<h3 align="center">HTML</h3>

For the longest time now I've been hearing about this HTML business. It has always really baffled me. If you have a blank piece of paper and a pen then you write your heading nice and big and then you write the rest smaller. If you are working in Microsoft word and you want your writing to be in italics then you just click the button. But if you working on a webpage it is not so straightforward. This is where HTML comes in.

So today I wanted to post something on my webpage. But how could I have it so that the title would be bigger, would stand out more than the rest of the piece? There was no button to press, no font size selector. It was while trying to figure this out that I came across HTML. The basic idea as I understand it is that HTML is a language that a computer understands and unless you speak to it in HTML then it won't understand you. So instead of just hitting a button you have to type in something which tells the computer that you want this word to be in italics, or bold or three times bigger than the rest of the words.

So instead of being some baffling techno goobledegook HTML starts to look a lot more interesting. A language. It is actually a way of talking to a computer, giving it direct instructions. So many of us depend on our computers and they can really serve us well. Yet I've always been the sort of person that takes his computer for granted. Cursing it when something goes wrong and not really noticing it the rest of the time. It makes you wonder what else you are failing to appreciate.

So far I've learned how to do the basic functions in HTML that you would get in Word, stuff like moving something to the centre, italicising, underlining. An hour ago I was a bit frustrated thinking that I would never be able to figure it out, that my blog would be this constant source of irritation. Now I'm starting to get excited thinking about all the possibilities.

Here is a link that I got from Lulu about HTML

HTML School