All you need to practice HTML is a text editor (Notepad, whatever--a multi-file editor with some features and the ability to paste in HTML elements is a lot handier though, I use Note Tab Light) and a browser. You code the page you want, you open it in your browser using the normal DOS filename structure--you know, C:\directory\filename.htm (or browse for it using the "choose file" option-as in Netscape-- File, Open Page, Choose FileAnd incidentally, the ONLY tag which you absolutely need in an html page is (title)A Properly Coded Title(/title)
All that other stuff in the header is optional, even the (html) and (body) tags
Then you can test your pages in the privacy of your own home, on any number of different browsers, before you unleash them on the world!
Bill C