<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
This is the skeleton of a web page, from which it can be filled out and developed. The HTML tags tell the web browser that this page uses HTML, while the / indicates the end of the page. The <HEAD> section divides the page into two parts, any text appearing in the hed not actually appearing on the page. The <TITLE> tag enable a title for the page, which will appear in the title bar of the browser. Again the / indicates the end of the title section. The <BODY> is where the actual web page will be entered including text, pictures, animation and so on.
Within the body there are a variety of tags that can be used. Some of the simplest are <B></B>, <I></I> and <U></U>. These tags allow wods to be bold, italics and underlined respectively. They are placed around the words, i.e. <B>Bold</B>, which will appear on the web page as Bold. There are other formatting tags, one of which is the .
The text can also be formatted using the <P> and <BR> tags. <P> creates a new paragraph within the text while the <BR> tag starts the text on the next line without the seperating line of a paragraph.
To include pictures within the page the following tag is used:<BR> <IMG SRC="filename"> where filename is the location of the picture. However if the picture is in the same location as the web page then only the filename of the picture is required, not the complete directory entry.
A basic background colour fr the page can also be set through the use of the tag <BODY BGCOLOR="#nnnnnn"> where nnnnnn is any of the possible colour values. An example is black which is set as 000000 and white which is FFFFFF. Variants of this tag can be used for text colour, <BODY TEXT="#nnnnnn"> and so on. Of course colour must be used carefully, otherwise conflicting colours could render the page unreadable or create an undesired effect.
There is also the possibility that the browser being used will not register the assigned colour value. In the hexadecimal colour system there are 16.7 million possible colours made up of red, green and blue values and some computers will not be able to recreate all of these effects. In this case an alternate website can be provided or only the known safe colours can be used.