How Do They Work

When you surf the net you look at websites and web pages through a special window known as a browser, usually Internet Explorer (IE). Through a browser websites (usually) look pretty, with pictures graphics and animations alongside neatly arranged text on nicely laid out pages. But behind all of this lurks Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), which is the raw code that makes up the website. Browsers are programs that translate the HTML into finished pages.

You can take a look at what the HTML code of any website really looks like by going to the View menu of your browser and choosing Source. Each line of text is a label that refers to how a certain part of the web page should look, it's like a list of instructions or a blueprint of its layout. Don't be put off by how complicated it all looks, as our system automatically takes care of this for you.