The HTML Page
A page created using HTML is started using this tag:
<html>
It is then ended using this tag: </html>
Most tags work in this way. The tag by itself opens the instruction, and then the "/" in front of the instruction closes it. Everything that appears between those tags is affected.
The page is divided into two main sections. The head, and the body. Information contained in the head is to tell the computer what is going on, and also informs search engines of page content. Within the head, a title can be added, and this will appear in the box at the bottom of the screen.
The body is the main part of the page, and this contains the information we see on screen. This is where you would put pictures, text and tables etc...
A simple example of a web page would be:
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
This is the main body. This text will appear on screen
</body>
</html>
To see what that page would look like, try putting the html code into your web editor, and save it to see what happens.
Now that you can make a page, move onto the next lesson to start using text, and making it look exactly how you want.
