HELP! Simple HTML Questions!
 

Alright, I am basically a noob at website creation, maybe you can help me? I have a few questions about HTML.

1. First, I have been viewing the source code for different web pages to see how things worked. I was understanding everything great until I looked at the source code for my email account. I expected to see some sort of function so that the source code would always stay the same. But instead, I literally saw every single email in my in inbox in that source code. Wouldn't that mean the source code is changing everytime I get a new email? HOW does that work? What is telling the source code to change?
   
2. Second, I was wondering how sites like Tinyurl work. I understand that it makes a new webpage that redirects you to the wanted url. How do you set something up that makes a new domain automatically? I see this everywhere and don't understand how this works. (For example, ebay makes a new webpage automatically for a product you are seeling. How?)

Thanks so much for your help!

You may be getting ahead of yourself. If you are interested in learning, then start with basics. What are you talking about is dynamic coding using server-side languages like php, coldfusion, or asp.net. These along with databases are used to create new pages, call images, and all information about a particular page content.

Learn basic html and css first. Really its not a huge lerning curve, then you can move into dynamic coding.

thanks for the advice! I have been learning HTML and CSS on http://www.w3schools.com and http://www.**************/. where do u reccomend I learn PHP (when i get that far?)

w3schools is good for beginning and has php tutorials as well. But as I have recently learned, be careful as w3schools contains quite a bit of bad information.

php.net is the best place to learn php. Coldfusion is also a good server side to learn and WAY easier than php. Drawback is its not open source, but you can still download a free coldfusion server.

There are many other good sites. Just google and you will see lots of free help.