Website Building → Tutorials → HTML: The Basics (Part 1)

Most web pages follow a basic structure, open up your chosen HTML Editor (Text Editor) and copy and paste the following code in (if using Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver switch to the code view).

Make sure you save as an html page ('.html', e.g. test.html).

<html>
<head>
<title>Title here (displays in title bar & bookmark name)
</title>
</head>
<body>
Visible website content goes here between
the opening and closing 'body' tags.
</body>
</html>

The page you now see should just display: 'Visible website content goes here between the opening and closing 'body' tags.'

Points to note:

The line break between the words 'between' and 'the' do not show up on the page, to achieve a line break you must use the <br> tag.
Indentations make no difference to the webpage itself, but make the HTML code more readable.
All HTML 'Tags' are surrounded by the '<' and '>' symbols.

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