About HTML
-stands for hyper text mark up language
-it is a taging or formating language
-most tags are in angle brackets <>
-it simply provides directions for how information is to be displaying in a web browser
every webpage starts with < html >
and ends with < /html >
all heading information is within the < head > tag
within the < head > tag, put the tile tage. the < title > will show up on the browser tag, it is not a page title
to create background color you put it in the body tag, < body bgcolor= "#e33ca8" >
Structure of an HTML page
<html>
<head>
<title>
</title>
<body>
all page content goes here
</body>
</html>
Useful HTML codes:
<br/> tag makes a line break
<hr> makes a horizontal line on the page
< strong > makes bold < /strong >
< em > makes italic text < /em >
& nbsp; makes a space
& amp; makes an ampersand
& lt; makes a left angle bracket
& gt; makes a right angle brakcet
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
Blair S
1/25/10