Understanding Basic HTML Tools
	Starting An HTML Document
	The Body Element
	Using Horizontal Rulers
	The STYLE Element
	The SCRIPT Element

The Overall HTML document development process starts with planning and ends with maintenance. Hence, most of the time is spent on creating HTML documents and checking it. All you will need is a plain text editor, such as Notepad, Simple Text or Vi (it depends on the platform you are working on), and a Web Browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Every HTML document, you need the two basic tools:

	An HTML editor - is the program used to create and save your HTML documents.
	A Web Browser - is the program you use to view and test your HTML documents.

In general, HTML editors fall into two categories:

	Text - or code-based, which allow you to see the HTML code as you're creating documents.
	WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), which show the results of code, similar to the way it will appear in a browser, as you're formatting your document.

Even though a number of WYSIWYG editors are available, it is always good to code HTML using a standard text editor. Windows Notepad is an ideal tool, which is all you need in order to produce HTML. Hand-coding helps you to learn HTML tags and structure and the mistakes you make. By working directly with the HTML, you really learn what the tags and attributes are doing, and you can also troubleshoot even if any problem arises. HTML always requires only plain text and with no formatting at all.

Simple WYSIWYG editors, like Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver, ColdFusion, etc, are good for quickly generating HTML documents. However, they do not give as much control over the final appearance as a code based editor do. Also they lag behind HTML specifications and do not support newer enhancements.

When surfing the web, you use web browsers to view HTML documents. How your documents appear in browsers varies from browser to browser. Most browsers of today are graphical browsers i.e., they display elements other than text also. A text only browser can display only text. Even the computer's resolution and specific browser setting will alter a document appearance.

To make things even trickier, some browsers support frames, and other do not. All those different browsers and different version of browsers mean that building a Web site that can work perfectly with all of them is virtually impossible. That means making decisions up front about what browsers you want your site to support, and than designing and building the site to accomplish that goal.

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