Tutorial on Writing Web pages

A great site to look at when searching for information on the basics of writing a Web page is http://math.wustl.edu/~msh210/html.html. This site provides information for people without a background in creating Web pages. Terms such as HTML, tags, hyperlinks and cascading style sheets are defined. Examples are given regarding the structure a Web page must follow. Every HTML document consists of just two things: text and tags. A tag always starts with a left-angle-bracket (<) and ends with a right-angle-bracket (>). The tags seem confusing at first but the process will become easier with practice in writing Web pages. The head of the page supplies information about the page to Web browsers, to search engines, and to any other program looking at the page. This information is not seen by the person looking at the page itself. The body of the page, which can be found in between the brackets, will comprise of text mostly. To create hyperlinks, lists and images in a Web page, you must use certain types of tags. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) create rules for the tags you input. For example, if you would like the text of your Web page to appear in the color red, you would input a rule before the brackets of the tags. { color : red } would appear before your left-angle bracket.