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Vance's e-Zguide to creating simple HTML files (in Notepad, or any text editor)
Step 1 Basic HTML structure

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Concept: Every html document has this basic HTML, HEAD, and BODY structure

Explanation:

• Every html document on the Web has these tags: HTML, HEAD, and BODY.
• Tags have this structure: <OPEN TAG> and </CLOSE TAG>. The close tag looks the same as the open tag except it has a slash ( / ) in front of its name.
• When a browser finds these elements in a file, it uses the instructions in the tags to display their contents on your screen.
• Everything between an open and close tag is affected by that set of tags. If you don't close a tag then whatever the open tag does is applied to the rest of the document.
• If you don't write a tag correctly it will probably display as text in your browser.
• With the exception of the TITLE (next slide) you don't need to know anything more about the basic structure. All the action takes place between the BODY tags.

What's coming: First we'll look at the TITLE tag and then we'll learn how to create the basic functions of

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