Not surprising; in fact, the prospect that you've waited this long to do it is more surprising. A personal web page is a great tool to keep friends and relatives up-to-date on your life, post an online copy of a resume, or just post information about your personal habits and hobbies.
Perhaps the reason you haven't constructed a Web page before now is that you've been intimidated by learning a "programming language", or that you thought it would take too much time or cost too much money. Well as you'll see, HTML is only as complex as you want to make it, you can learn enough basics in one hour to build a fairly good Web page, and if you've got a text editor, you've got everything you need; HTML can be coded in plain text, and there are several ways to post Web content for FREE.
If you are experienced with HTML content, you may want to pick and choose the content you are interested in; I'm providing a link below for the supported tags in HTML 4.0. This includes the name of the tag, a brief description, and parameters / arguments for the tag. If you are new, I am providing links for a step-by-step tutorial below so you'll be able to understand what a tag
is and how to create links
.
Occasionally throughout this document you will see the word deprecated
used in combination with a tag. What this means is that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, because there are 3 W's) has decided they don't want people to use these bits of HTML anymore. Don't worry too much about it, though; all modern browsers still recognize the older tags, and although W3C would like to have people rewrite Web pages to newer standards, there's no way to get all the content on the internet updated. Since they have to support the older stuff anyway, and since it's sometimes easier to use, I'll show you the older, deprecated stuff along with the new.