Vance's e-Zguide "10 steps to creating simple HTML files" Step 1 Basic HTML structure
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Concept: Every html document has this basic HTML, HEAD, and BODY structure

Explanation:

• Every html document on the Web has these tags: HTML, HEAD, and BODY.
• Tags have this structure: <OPEN TAG> and </CLOSE TAG>. Everything between the tags is affected by them.
• When a browser finds these elements in a file, it can interpret the file and display the contents on your screen.
• With the exception of the TITLE (next slide) you don't need to know anything more about the basic structure. All the action takes place between the BODY tags.

What's coming: First we'll look at the TITLE tag and then we'll learn how to create the basic functions of

• 1. The basic structure tags <-- You are here!
• 2. Putting your document title in the blue bar of the browser
• 3. Formatting text: getting the browser to display text in paragraph form
• 4. Formatting text: breaking the text into lines with line breaks
• 5. Formatting text: bold and italics
• 6. Inserting images
• 7. Linking to other html files in a web project
• 8. Linking to other URLs on the Internet
• 9. More text formatting: changing font size
• 10. More formatting: centering text and images, and drawing lines across the page