html tutorial: website creation

An html document is a nothing more than a classic text file so you can use a text editor such as notepad, vim or emacs to edit your file. There are several tags which exist to refine the presentation of your document, for example for formatting your text: <b>this text is in bold</b>. So when you enclose your text by the tag b the text is in bold.

All the html tags are created in the same way the command is encapsulated between a < and a > to start and encapsulated between a </ and a > to close it.

The basic structure of an html document is always the following:

<html>

  <head>
  </head>
  
  <body>
  </body>
  
</html>

The tag html indicates that this document is in html, the tag head contains information about the document and the contents of the 'body' section.

For more information about the 'head' section please click here where you will find a description of meta tags, which will allow you to describe your document.

The tag body delimits the main part of your document, this is where you will write the text for your page and the references of your images.

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