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Step 2
Now you need to insert some formatting tags in your
document that will tell an Internet browser (such as
Netscape, America Online, or Internet Explorer) how
to arrange your words and pictures on the screen. These
tags make up a language called HyperText Markup Language,
or HTML. The basic skeleton for an HTML document looks
like this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of Page</title>
</head>
<body>
Text of page...
</body>
</html>
Notice that (1) each formatting tag
appears between "less than" (<) and "greater
than" (>) signs, and (2) the tags often appear
in pairs, with the second tag in the pair beginning
with a "slash" (/).
Here's a list of some of the basic formatting tags in
HTML:
<h1>...</h1>
header, level 1 (the largest size type for a header,
usually used at the beginning of a page or the start
of a new section). Smaller headers are tagged with
<h2>...</h2>, <h3>...</h3>,
etc.
<b>...</b>
boldface text
<i>...</i>
italic text
<center>...</center>
centered text
<p>
paragraph return (inserts an extra line space between
paragraphs)
Note: Any paragraph returns that you insert in your
document by simply hitting the Return key on your
keyboard will be ignored by a Web browser. You must
use the tag <p> to create a paragraph break
on the screen.
<br>
line break (no extra space)
<hr>
horizontal rule (a line running left-to-right across
the page, to separate one section from the next)
<ol>...</ol>
ordered, or numbered, list. Each list item begins
with the tag <li> and falls somewhere between
the <ol>...</ol> tags.
<ul>...</ul>
unordered, or bulleted, list. Again, each list item
begins with the tag <li>.
<a href="filename.html">...</a>
a hotlink to another file in the same folder
<a href="http://URL">...</a>
a hotlink to another site. You will have to know the
Uniform Resource Locator (URL), or Web address, of
any site to which you want to link your page.
<img src="image.gif">
This tag would insert an image with the filename "image.gif"
on the far left side of your page.
(Note: Don't worry if this information
seems confusing or overwhelming right now. It will make
more sense as you apply it in the next few steps.)
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