Inside the Internet: An Interactive Exploration of the World Wide Web

Tutorials
16-B. HTML Basics
Introduction

Introduction

This page will show you some of the most basic HTML you will need for a web page. If you do not see any HTML tags (<HTML>) below, you will need to view it with a different browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. 

<HTML> - This tag tells the browser that the information here is HTML
<HEAD> - This is the beginning of the HEADER
	<TITLE>TITLE OF PAGE</TITLE> - This is the title of the page
</HEAD> - This is the end of the HEADER

<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#FFFFFF" LINK="#FFFF00" VLINK="#808000" ALINK="#0000FF" BACKGROUND="image.gif">
                  |              |              |               |               |                       |
                  |              |              |               |      ACTIVE LINK COLOR                |
                  |              |              |       VISITED LINK COLOR                              |
                  |              |          LINK COLOR                                                  |
                  |          TEXT COLOR                                                                 |
           BACKGROUND COLOR                                        LOCATION OF BACKGROUND IMAGE---------+
The BODY tag tells the browser that everything between it and the
	closing BODY tag is to be displayed on the screen

</BODY> - This is the closing BODY tag
</HTML> - This tag indicated that this is the end of the HTML code

Some useful tags are:

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