Need a quick reference for basic HTML codes? Look now further, it is all here.
Whether you are new to HTML or have been an old pro for a while, having a handy reference sheet on basic HTML commands can be invaluable. HTML can be used in so many ways. Even if you aren’t planning on hand coding your own website, knowing what all of the funny letters in the greater tan and less then signs are can really help with your blog, for example. Those less than and greater than signs, and what is in them, are called tags.
A good friend of mine had an annoying little character that wouldn’t leave her blog page. It plagued her for a while. Fortunately, it was just a simple little matter of an open tag. Knowing the basics of the code fixed the problem in a flash. Plus, aren’t we all a little bit curious about what all of that code is doing?
Here is a quick reference for you. Since I write this blog in an HTML editor, I will be putting these tags in brackets to remove the potential for the editor to see these HTML examples as active tags. Just replace the brackets with the less than sign at the beginning of the tag and the greater than sign at the end of the tag.
[html] [/html]
This tag creates an HTML document. This is the first thing you have to do to let everything know that you are coding in HTML.
[head] [/head]
This tag sets off the title and other related information that isn’t displayed on the Web page itself. Every page has a head and a body. The head stores a lot of information about the page itself, such as who created it, what keywords or tags should be associated with it, etc.
[title] [/title]
This tag puts the name of the document in the title bar. It applies to each page. So “Joe’s House of Photos” could be one page and “Joe’s Toenail Clippings Blog” could be another. The title will appear in search engines, so it is good to find a nice apt title.
[body] [/body]
This tag sets off the visible portion of the document. This is the meat of your web page. It will contain all of your text, references to photos and images, links, etc.
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