Creating an HTML Page
A web page is created using a language called, Hypertext Markup Language, better known as HTML Code. You can write your own coding within a plain text editor, such as Note Pad, or use an HTML editor, which will write the code for you.
HTML codes, also referred to as HTML tags, are enclosed by the lesser than (<) and greater than (>) brackets and may be written in capital or lower case letters.
The opening bracket is followed by an element, which is a browser command, and ends with the closing bracket.
<font size=2>
An element may also be followed by attributes, which are words describing the properties of the element, and further instruct the browser.
<font size=2>
Attributes are only contained in the opening HTML tags to the right of the element and are separated by a space and followed by an equal (=) sign.
The value follows the equal sign and is enclosed in quotes.
<font size=2>
<html> - Begins your HTML document.
<head> - Contains information about the page such as the TITLE, META tags for proper Search Engine indexing, STYLE tags, which determine the page layout, and JavaScript coding for special effects.
<title> - The TITLE of your page. This will be visible in the title bar of the viewers’ browser.
</title> - Closes the HTML <title> tag.
</head> - Closes the HTML <head> tag.
<body> - This is where you will begin writing your document and placing your HTML codes.
</body> - Closes the HTML <body> tag.
</html> - Closes the <html> tag.
