Html stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
You don’t have to know html to build your blog, but a little knowledge of html certainly helps and can make a real difference to the appearance of your blog.
Html is a standard markup language that uses abbreviations called “tags” to tell the web browsers how you want the sections of your blog to appear.
Html controls the layout of your content while Css (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to define the presentation and apperance of your pages.
A basic html document has three parts
- the Document type definition
- the head section
- the body section
With the head and body section being enclosed within the html tags
You do not need to understand this code or modify it. It is standard and when editing your html you can simply ignore it.
The following part is the start of your html document. In blogger it should look something like this
You should then come to the head section
The head section will include the document title,information about the template, designer etc. Followed by a list of Variable definitions
The information that follows the Variables is the Css code, unlike websites where it is usual to have a style sheet separate to the document, blogger templates have the css and html on one page.
If you scroll down the page you will find the end of the head section followed by the body section. This is where the content of the document is to appear.
In short the layout of your whole document will follow like this
Knowing these parts of your html document will help you later on to edit your code
For changes to the layout of your blog the editing is done in the head section and for altering the way your content is arranged you will edit the body section
There are many online tutorials to help you with editing your code but always download and save your full template before you make any modifications
