What Are HTML Tags??

This article will give you information about the most
commonly used html tags, all of which you will find located
within our minisite template files.(located here)

The first is obviously the ... pair of tags. In
order to talk about some of the other important tags, I will
ask that you bring to mind a written letter. Why would I
want you to think of a handwritten letter? Because an html
file is set up very much in the same way that a letter is
formatted.

When you write a letter, you will generally place your return
address at the top of the paper. Let's call this the "header."

This is the part of the html file where you place the page
title and possibly some descriptive information about your
webpage. Unless otherwise noted here, the tags mentioned
will all have closing tags.

So, find the ... tag pair. What lies within?
You should now be able to identify the page title and the
location of the descriptive (or meta) information mentioned above.

After the header section, thinking back to your letter, is
where the "body" of the text appears. This is similar to
the actual written letter.

Within the ... tag pair falls everything that will
need to appear inside of the browser window when your webpage
is viewed.

Finally, you will notice the presence of the ...
tag pair. This indicated that the information contained within
will be formatted into row and columns known in html as "tables."

If you need a reference for what a table looks like, consider
a spreadsheet and note that you may or may not see the
gridlines that you will in a spreadsheet file.

These are some of the most commonly used html tags, and
believe it or not you could create a very simple html page
containing just these tag pairs.

However, now that you know the basics you will want to know
more about the other tags in your template files.

More in the next hint...

Chow