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    Basic Page Setup


    2.) Where to begin.
    In order to set up your page for building, you will want to start with the following tags.

    First, you want to let the computer know that you're writing an HTML document. The first tag you should enter in is <HTML>. The most important lesson to learn in HTML is you need to close all of your tags, so for safety sake you may want to enter in the closing tag for this command </HTML> and then write everything else in between.

    <head></head> Sets off the title and other information that isn't displayed on the Web page itself, like meta tags (see below). <body></body>Sets off the visible portion of the document.

     Meta Tags
    It is possible for you to control how your page is indexed by search engines by using the META tag to specify keywords, and a short abstract. Information within the META tag is not displayed when the document is loaded into a browser. However it can be extracted by servers and search engines for use in identifying, indexing, and cataloging your page. It will be very helpful to list the keywords in a META tag - for example, your site might be reasonably specified by several dozens of keywords - but you probably would not want them all on your homepage. Here is an example:-
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>The Web Developer's Virtual Library </TITLE>
    <META NAME = "Keywords" CONTENT = " HTML, CGI, Java, VRML, browsers, plugins, graphics, HTTP servers, JavaScript, Perl, ActiveX, Shockwave">

    <META NAME = "Description" CONTENT=" Locate Web authoring & software Internet resources at The WDVL, a well-organized goldmine with over 500 pages and thousands of links about HTML, CGI, Java, VRML, browsers, plugins, graphics, HTTP servers, JavaScript, Perl, ActiveX, Shockwave,.."> </HEAD>

     Header Tags

    3.)Titles     <title>my title </title> puts the name of the document in the title bar.
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