Here's an example of a basic frame layout:

A <META> tag is a great way to put your site on a search engine, tell the user who the author of the page is, or just about anything else! You can make up your own things within attributes. Heres an example:  <META name="what do cows say" content="MOO!">. This would tell the user what cows say. You're probably wondering what I mean when I say 'tell the user'. If the viewer of your site views the source code, then they will most likely notice the <META> tags. The three main attributes to it are the name, http-equiv, and content attributes. Name can have any value, but it does have some set values. Such values include keywords and description. They are used when search engines sniff out your site. Content is another used often in <META> tags. It should always be placed after the 'name' or 'http-equiv' attributes. You should type what keywords you want or the description to be displayed when someone searches for your site. there is no set value, it can have any value.

Overall, <META> tags can be pretty hard at first, but once you get one, most of them are easy to understand. Here's an example of some basic <META> tags:

This would tell the search engine that the generator of the site was Moses of Heaven, give the description to display when the page is searched for, and what words that page should be indexed with.

As a test to see how much that you learned, you should make a page of your own. It's content doesn't matter, just use the following format, and you should be fine. A lot of HTML is figuring out a design to stick with, and then cleaning up the code or finding the errors and fixing them. Take the following code, and incorporate it into a site of your own. This is just a template, but you can change it to make it display better, etc. Do what you want with it, make it to your liking, it doesn't matter. The best advice I can give you is to just work on a page, try different things out, play with it. Good luck!