HTML  

HyperText Markup Language, the basis of life on the Internet.

• Linking:
  <a href=http://startrek.com title="Official Site">Star Trek</a>
  href is the "hyperlink reference" - where you want the link to take you
  title is the text when you rollover the link (optional)
  The "a" means "anchor" and "href' means "Hyperlink REFerence"
• Link to a place on the same page:
  On <a href=#june>June</a> 16th...   Use a normal link tag, changing the URL to a pound reference
  <a name=june></a>June 16th:   goes where you want to link to.
• Insert an image:
  <img src=http://laser.edu/pictures/image.jpg title="A photo of a laser" width=50% align=center >
  src is the location of the image
  title is the text displayed when you rollover the image (optional)
  width adjusts the size (both width and height!) and can be a percentage of the image's original size or in pixels (optional)
  align is the image alignment and can also be left or right (optional)
  "src" means "source"
• Make an image a link:
  <a href=http://hellokitty.com> <img src=http://hellokitty.com/kitty.jpg> </a>
  Instead of a text in the basic link tag, just put an image tag.
• Lists:
  <ul>  </ul>   unordered (bulleted) list
  <ol>  </ol>   ordered (numbered) list
  Use <li> for each item in the list (breaks/paragraphs will not have a bullet/number)
• Special characters are found on this or this list. Use &# before the number and ; after. Do not use < >.
• If you hit spacebar four billion times, you'll only end up with one whitespace on your page. Use &nbsp; to create more than one consecutive space.
• <!-- note to self: finish Berry paper! -->   the code inside the < > will be hidden when anyone views your site. This is helpful to make personal notes about coding, write something you don't want visible until later, etc.
• <nobr>f(x)=sin(akx)cos(bks)</nobr>   no break keeps stuff on the same line, which is especially useful when writing equations.
• <title="Handy Dandy Shortcuts">   specifies the title of the browser for the page