How to learn HTML, CSS and web design on your Mac: Create a simple page Building web pages really couldn’t be easier. Web pages are (mostly) set up using HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).

With that in mind, in our first lesson on how to make a web site, we're covering the top-level basics of HTML—the predominant markup language of the web.

Before you begin building your page, you should brush up on some basic HTML rules. Here's some helpful information to get you started. The HTML markup language provides a backbone for web ...