hi Sid.

Well I'm no expert. I know a litle bit of formatting and how to add things like links, lists and images to pages so that I can update the database entries, but I would probably have to go off and do some research if I wanted to write my own site, certainly there are people on this forum like Cx2 dand ductail who know a good bit more than me.

For general info though you can check this page on wikipedia which has a list of some common tags.

I'll try and explain what I know though.

Basically, all html tags take the form of some lower case letters betwene a less than and greater than sign (shift comma and shift full stop on your keyboard). You write that code at the start of what your doing, then when you've finished, you write the same again witha slash to show that it's finished.

So to take a simple example, you can't just bang enter for a line break. If you want to write a paragraph, you use less than p greater than, then when you've finished less than slash p greater than.

eg: <p> This is the text wich makes up the paragraph </p>
The same goes for riting headers, ---- eg <h1> this is a big fat header </h1> or colours, bold or italic text and even lists and links.

You write a link in a very similar way to using bb code. less than a which starts the link, h ref equals the web address, which tells the program that the next thing is a web address, greater than after the address, the text of your link such as click here, and then less than slash a greater than to finish it.

For instance <a href=www.audiogames.net> click here to go to audiogames.net </a>

The important bit is to always remember to close your tags with the slash command, sinse leaving them open can make things go very screwy indeed, this is particularly necessary when you've got multiple tags used together, such as a list of links, sinse you need to remember to open the over all list tag less than ul greater than, write each list item, less than li greater than write each link and close it, close the individual list item with less than slash li greater than, then finally when your all finished close the list with less than slash ul greater than.

Hth.

thank you dark,
well they are the commonly used tags, though.
but, like in the websight, designing of a spaciffic tags like tables,lists, forms, sounds, and a database seems rather difficult.
and i've also looked through several examples on the net and each one is different from the others in either way...
regards,
sid.

databasing is extremely hard in html!
that's why i switched to wordpress.

With forms, it depends largely on what you want to do with them.
Databases are better handled with a cgi or php resource, and going from html/javascript to those hasn't worked out for me yet. ^^

The thing with forms is that you can label each element and attach a bit of code to them.
So, You'd start with something like:

<ul>
<form name="myform" action='handleForm()'>
<li/>Name: &nbsp; <input type="namebox" type="text" size=15 />
<li/>Month: &nbsp; <select name="monthselect">
   <option value="jan">January</option>
  <option value="feb">February</option>
<!-- And so on... -->
</select>
<li/>  <input type="submit" value="submit" onclick='handleForm()' />
</form>
</ul>

You'd need to define a javascript for handling the form, though.

it's worth saying that If you want to include sounds on sites it may effect loading times. And also not all browsers work with the built in sound tag of html. IE will work fine, but firefox will ignore those.