How can I create a simple text-based website with tables and links?

A beginner-friendly HTML tutorial should be enough. Learn the basic document structure along with elements such as headings, paragraphs, anchor links, and table rows and cells. Browser-based HTML editors can also give you a visual preview, but a regular text editor is perfectly adequate for learning.

Start by creating a file named something like index.html in a text editor, then open it in your browser. You can add HTML elements, save the file, and refresh the browser to see the changes. For a page like this, you can use plain HTML without adding CSS or JavaScript.

The terms are easy to mix up: HTML is the markup language used for headings, paragraphs, links, and tables. HTTP is the communication protocol browsers and web servers use to exchange pages. You only need basic HTML to create the page itself; HTTP becomes relevant later when you publish it on a server.