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Appendix

Explaining simple tags.


  1. All web pages begin and end with HTML tag. <html> </html>
  2. All web pages should have heading tags just inside the opening html tags. <head> </head>
  3. Usually we use a title tag at the top of the page. </title>

So a basic page might begin like this:       

<html>

<head>
<title> Pat's Web Page </title>
</head>

</html>

So the only thing you would see in a browser are the words: Pat's Web Page.

It would appear on the very top line of your browser, and the page appears empty.

Try it for yourself! Copy the HTML from the page and put in your own title.

Hint: Right click an open spot on the page and go to "View Source" to see the way this page was written. (Right clicking on the web page is a shortcut to open Notepad, the free program we are using to learn about writing a web page just using code. You can also go to Programs;Accessories;Notepad.)

After you look at all the code (and before you decide you can never do this), you can just go to File; New. Now cut and paste the code given above. When you are done pasting, you need to save the file as Yourname.htm.

Now find your file and click on it. It should open in a browser, and you are on your way to making a web page!

Now you understand the basic way HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) works. You are already on your way to learning "hard code".

In our next lesson, we will learn a little more about simple tags.