HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the language which is used by web browsers to generate web pages. Universal Resource Locator (URL) is the address which your web site is accessed by e.g. www.600host.net.

HTML when written is wrote in plain ASCII files (text) which are then read by the users browser to display the code corectly.

HTML offers you many features such as:

hypertext links
These are used to create links to documents across your site or to create external links:

Elements and tags:
A HTML document is made up of many elements and tags these are read by the browser.