First Things First
There are a few standard tags that you will have to write every time you make a Web page. Some browsers may be forgiving and format the page the way you want it to look if you omit these tags, but some may not! Therefore, you should type these tags every time you make a Web page so that everybody that comes to your page can see it the way it is intended to look.
- <HTML> </HTML>
- This is what tells the browser that your page is an HTML document, along with saving the page with the extension ".htm" or ".html". These tags enclose the whole document.
- <HEAD> </HEAD>
- This tag does not effect how your page will look. "Then what is it for?" you ask. Descriptive information such as the page title, keywords that may be useful to search engines, and other data that is not considered document content are put in-between the HEAD tags.
- <TITLE> </TITLE>
- This is for the title of your page. Everything you type in-between these tags will appear at the very top-left corner of the window in most browsers. (That's how I got "HTML for Starters -- Chapter 1" to appear on the title bar.) The title tag is entered inside the <HEAD> </HEAD> tags.
When someone bookmarks a page, the name of the bookmark is taken from the <TITLE> tag. Therefore, be sure to use a short, descriptive, and unique title!
- <BODY> </BODY>
- Everything that will appear on your Web page is entered in-between the BODY tags. The only time that the BODY tag is not used is in a FRAMESET document (but you can put it inside the NOFRAMES part). Find out what the attributes for the BODY tag are.
How the basic HTML Web page looks
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Enter title of page here</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Put whatever you want to be on your page in-between the BODY tags.
</BODY>
</HTML>
