HTML

Strange but true : some of the most successful site owners on the net don’t even know how their own sites are built. HTML seems complicated if you have not dealt with it before, but once you learn it, you never forget it, and it can prove to be extremely useful.

Here is an introduction to some of the main structure tags used while creating a HTML page. Append a < to all pieces of html code in this article to make them work correctly.

html> /html>

The HTML tag tells the browser that your page is a valid HTML page.

The first and last tag on all your HTML documents will be this tag.

The complete HTML coding for the remainder of your document will be placed between these two HTML tags.

head> /head>

This tag is used to reference your document.

title> /title>

This tag enables you to give your HTML document a title.

It’s best to insert descriptive text about your page between these tags we will go into this in more detail in the later chapters.

This will also be the name that is displayed in a web browser’s system tray when someone bookmarks or adds your HTML document to their favorites list.

body> /body>

The entire coding for your page goes in between these two tags.

Basically, they mark the beginning and end of your web page’s body. They are the essence of your HTML.

All your HTML tags in your document will be resting in between these two HTML tags.

Putting It All Together

Now that the main tags have been outlined, it’s time to put them all together. Here is an example of what your HTML documents should look like.

html>
head>
title>The Title Of Your Html Document Goes Here
/head>

body>
/body>/html>
All your other HTML tags and text goes here.
This Is the main body of your HTML document.
At the end of this text you will also see where the closing Body and HTML tags go.

/body>

/html>

This is the basic structure for any HTML document. Once these tags are in place, the rest is down to you. These Tags are not case sensitive. In other words, you don’t have to use all capital letters like we have in our Chapters. It won’t make a difference to the overall outcome of your tags. However we would recommend using Caps for your tags. It makes them a lot easier to distinguish from all the other sections of your HTML document coding, as you can see in the example above.

Credit goes to the great resource site, ARS Resources for originally posting about how to create HTML structuring.