Building websites is certainly easy today with WordPress and similar web building platforms. However, there are times in which you still need to know at least the fundamental aspects of how HTML works and what some of the tags (lines of code) do.

As you build out your websites, you will come across occasions where the only way to correct something on your website is through the use of HTML. There will be times in which what you are trying to do on your specific theme in WordPress is not possible, but it mostly likely is possible with HTML.

In this quick and easy tutorial on the basics of HTML, I am going to show you the fundamental structure of HTML so you can get a grasp of what you are looking at when you view the code. For this tutorial, you do not need WordPress or similar program. All you need is a program which is on almost every computer and is most likely on your computer - Notepad.