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Basic HTML commands

This section covers some basic HTML commands and explains the steps involved in preparing a document for viewing via the World Wide Web (www) using Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer. Basic steps: using tags HTML uses tags to communicate to the client (browser) how to display text and images. Tags are contained in <   > symbols. In most cases you start with the beginning tag, put in the word or words that will be affected by this tag, and at the end of the string of word(s), you place a closing tag. For example, to create a title for a document you would do the following: <title>My First HTML Document</title> The closing tag normally contains a "/" before the directive to indicate the termination of the action. HTML tags are not case-sensitive, although URLs generally are. In most cases (with the exception of preformatted text) HTML collapses many spaces to one space and does not read blank lines. However, when you write your text you should leave seve...