3. A Review of Basic HTML

A REVIEW OF BASIC HTML

These are the commands which every webpage must have.

BEGINNING TAG	ENDING TAG	FUNCTION
<HTML>	</HTML>	This command lets your Internet browser know that you are talking the HTML language. Most HTML documents will end in ".html". Some more advanced HTML documents have ".htm" or ".shtml" extensions. All other commands and content for your webpage must appear in between the tag team of <HTML> and </HTML>
<HEAD>	</HEAD>	This command signifies the header section of your html document. In its simplest form, your may have only a title command here. The header is used to store general information about your webpage such as its title, the specific languages used in the webpage (e.g. html, JavaScript), any scripts (little programs that make your webpage more interactive may be found here). Strange creatures called Meta tags also lurk in the header sections and can be used to help search engines find your page.)
<TITLE>	</TITLE>	This tag is always in the header section. Put the name of your webpage between the title tags. e.g. <TITLE>THE CYBERMOMS RULE WEBPAGE</TITLE>
<BODY>	</BODY>	This command signifies the body of your html document. This is where all the good stuff, i.e. the content goes. All content must be between the tag team of <BODY> and </BODY>. The <BODY> tag can be made more complicated by specifying the background color of the webpage, the text colour of the webpage, the link colour of the webpage and the visited link colour of the webpage.

So the HTML code for the very basic webpage looks something like this:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>MY VERY BASIC PLAIN JANE BORING WEBPAGE</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
the good stuff goes here
</BODY>
</HTML>

and looks like this on the Internet:

Screen shot of basic webpage

Told you it was boring! J