Basic HTML

1. All web pages have the following basic coding and layout:

<html>
<head>
<title>Name of Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
The actual contents of the web page
</body>
</html>

2. Useful basic codes for formatting body of document:

<p>starts paragraph</p>ends paragraph
<strong>starts bold</strong>ends bold
<em>starts italics</em>ends italics
<center>starts centering</center>ends centering of text
<font color=red>starts Colored Font</font>ends Colored Font
<font size="+1">starts Larger Font</font>ends Larger Font
<blockquote>indents entire paragraph
one tab space
</blockquote>ends indented paragraph and
inserts line before next paragraph
<br>ends line or paragraph <hr>inserts a line to separate
portions of the web page


3. Headlines

<h1>Text</h1>Largest Boldfaced Text Text
<h2>Text</h2>Large Boldfaced Text Text
<h3>Text</h3>Average Boldfaced Text Text
<h4>Text</h4>Smaller Boldfaced Text Text
<h5>Text</h5>Smallest Boldfaced Text Text