by Meghan Whitmore
TITLE
What is your web page all about? Time to think of your TITLE. The TITLE will appear in the title bar at the top of the page window, and will also appear on your visitors' History folder and on their Favorites (if they like what they see!). Here is how to make your TITLE:
The TITLE goes in the HEAD section, so just under <HEAD>, type <TITLE> followed by your title. Then close your title tag.
Title your page Pipsqueak, like this: <TITLE>Pipsqueak</TITLE>
See Figure Two.
THE CONTENT
Now you are ready to start filling in the meat and potatoes of your page, your content. All of this information will go between the two BODY tags.
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| Figure 2: Your web page with a title and header tag added. |
In order to organize your information, you can use HEADERS, which are like chapter titles for the sections of your page. Headers come in different sizes, the choices of which are ranked 1-6. The smaller the number, the more prominent the header. For example, Header 1 is usually displayed as Times new Roman, 24 point, bold. The smallest header (6) is usually 8 point.
So, for your header:
1) After <BODY>, type <H#>, where "#" is the number of whichever header you choose. Remember, 1 is biggest, 6 is smallest.
2) If you want to align the header, inside your header tag type ALIGN="direction". Where direction has a value of left, right, or center.
3) Type the text you want
4) After your header text, close with </H#>
So, for example, if you want your main header of your page to read "Pipsqueak the Mouse" and you want it centered, you would write this:
<H1 ALIGN="center">Pipsqueak the Mouse</H1>
Insert your header as shown in Figure 2.
Later on, we can work on changing the font, style, size, and color of your headers if you wish.
You can use headers throughout your page to divide up your information.
Time for the main text of your page, be it a series of poems you wrote about trees, or a story about your grandma, or whatever. Headers automatically include line breaks, so there will be a space between the header and the text you write.
HTML doesn't understand when you hit "return" to start a new line. You have to literally type a tag for it to know what you want. So when you want a new paragraph, you have to say so. To do that, you use a tag.
1) Start your new paragraph with <P>
2) You can align your paragraph like you aligned your header, by typing ALIGN="direction". Where direction has a value of left, right, or center.
3) Write the text of your paragraph.
So, if you want to start a paragraph that is aligned left, you would type: <P ALIGN="left">
If you want additional space between paragraphs, you can include a line break.
To create a line break, which acts like a Return command when you hit "Enter" or "Return" on your keyboard:
1) All you have to do is type <BR>
2) There is no closing tag for line breaks.
Use the above tags and fill in some content on your page. Like this:
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