The first step in building a web page is to know HTML. Again, as stated above, HTML is what tells the browser what to display on the screen. When you load your browser, the browser will read the HTML code in the web page, interpret the language, and display it on the screen. Learning HTML is not hard if you can recognize certain bits of code called tags. Tags control the placement of everything on the screen. If you look at a web page you will notice it is separated in two sections: the head and body. The head section provides the title and META tags, while the body contains the elements of the web page that people see. The sections look something like this: <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY></BODY></HTML>. If this code was all that was used on a page, the page would be empty. The tags are surrounded by <> to indicate tags. This is how the browser recognizes them. Also every tag starts with <> and ends with </> to indicate the command has ended. Every web page must start with <HTML> and end with </HTML> to work correctly. To learn more about HTML and how to effectively design web pages go here:
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