Getting Started with HTML - How to Build a Home on the Web

by: Marty Beall

Okay, so let's add a headline now. A headline can be one of six sizes depending on your preference. Let's say that I like the big look I may want to put in the H1 tag.

So, all of this put together is:
-------------------------------------- New Document-------------------------------------------------

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> This is Where your Title Goes </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000AA" VLINK="#0000AA" ALINK="#FF0000">
<H1>The is My Headline</H1>
-------------------------------------- New Document-------------------------------------------------

You don't have to use the H1 tag, you can use the Hn tag where n is an integer from one to six (six being the smallest)

Remember: a home page is supposed to be creative. You don't have to follow any of this, you can leave out parts you don't like, you can even mix and combine many of these in the same document.

I want to put a line break under my headline, what do I do? What you would want to do is either add the HR or BR tag. The HR tag is a visible line break while the BR tag is invisible.

Let's use the HR tag in our example You can modify the width and size of the HR tag by adding the WIDTH and SIZE attributes. At the top of this page is an HR linebreak with a WIDTH of 75% and a SIZE of 4. To do this you would change <HR> to <HR SIZE="4" WIDTH="75%">

So, all together you have something like:
-------------------------------------- New Document-------------------------------------------------

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> This is Where your Title Goes </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000AA" VLINK="#0000AA" ALINK="#FF0000">
<H1>The is My Headline</H1>
<HR SIZE="4" WIDTH="75%">
-------------------------------------- New Document-------------------------------------------------

1. Let's move on.
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