Before starting to learn HTML, one must know what is Web designing. Web designing is nothing but the skill of creating presentations of contents, that you tend to inform your readers through world wide web by means of a browser.Various techniques are used to enhance the readabilty of the documemt and attract the reader's view by using different languages. One such basic language is HTML. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. HTML provides a means to create structured document by denoting sematics for text such as heading, paragraphs, links, etc,. Even images and object could be embedded to create interactive forms using HTML tags. I recommend the following links to get more informations on basic HTML tags and its descriptions.