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HTML Basics

HTML ( Hyper Text Markup Language ) is the code used to create web pages. All tags have brackets (Ex. ) and are closed with a / after the first bracket (Ex. ). In case you were wondering, stands for underlined text. So, here is an example of a section of HTML code:
 HTML basics.

Now let's go over some basic tags that are used in every page:

<HTML>:This tag represents the beginning of an HTML document. Every HTML document must begin and close with this tag for the page to work.

<HEAD>: This tag contains all of the page header information. This tag can contain attributes such as: TITLE and META. Here is a quick overview of both of them:

<TITLE>: This is the tag used to identify the page name. The text contained in this tag will be the text displayed at the top of the browser as well as the text that will be used to bookmark the page with.

Example: <TITLE>Go 2 Graphics</TITLE>

<META>: META Tags are extremely important because they can determine your search engine ranking. For more information on getting a high search engine ranking, click here. The META tag normally has two attributes; (1) The NAME attribute and (2) The CONTENT attribute. The NAME attribute specifies what the content is in regard to. The CONTENT attribute is what is used by search engines to rank your page/site. Here is an example of what goes in the HEAD Tag:

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Welcome To Go 2 Graphics Inc.</TITLE>
<META name="keywords" content="animated gifs, free buttons, HTML Tips">
<META name="description" content="Premium Web Site Design With A Personal Touch">
</HEAD>

<BODY>: This is the tag that defines the pages attributes. These include: The background color, the background image (if any), the text color, link color, visited link color, & active link color.
The tags for these attributes are, in order: BGCOLOR, BACKGROUND, TEXT, LINK, VLINK, ALINK. Here is an example of the BODY tag, which is placed directly after the HEAD closed tag (</HEAD>):

Now that you have the basics of web page coding down, go on to the next tip on Formatting Text.

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