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About the "TITLE"
tag
This is pretty obvious, ne? Well... problem was, some people, we discover put
HTML codes INSIDE the title tag - making things look REALLY weird! You see, "h1" My SM page
"/h1" - and that's pretty funny... well, sort of. What you write inside the Title tag causes
it to appear on Bookmarks, the top bar on your browser... and is for people to figure out
the name of your site.
About the "meta" tags
I didn't mention these on the "start" thingy because they are pretty much optional
and mostly for index pages. See... they help people search for you in search engines that use
meta tags. Key words and description help people find your site - more popularity for you!
About the "font" tags
I didn't include any font tags because it isn't usually how you start a page. But
these are really important! It makes the page look much more nice to the eye - rather than
no font. The code is <font face="arial,helvetica" size="2"> - the size doesn't have to
be 2, but that's nice size for giant paragraphs. You can adjust the color by adding in -
color="rrggbb" (rrggbb is for finding the color code - no, I don't memorize color codes... I
use a program called Crayon, which gives me the color code - you can download it at Tucows)
About the "head" tags
YES they are necessary... they hold the title tags AND if you have any hidden
javascripts they are nested inside the head tags.
About the "body" tags
Very important... they hold the major settings of your site... well, sort of
important. In other words, the body tag controls the color scheme. "bgcolor" means
background color. This is the background color. Even if you ues an image background, you still
need to set this. "text" is the color of the all the text. "link" is the color of the
unvisited links. "vlink" is the color of a visited link.
You use rgb color codes to adjust all of the tags. (All default settings are black over white)
THE TABLES
Probably the most important thing for a webpage! Every page should be set up with a
table. The width of the table should be set up at 600 (metioned above) the alternative would
be 100%, but 600 looks nicer. <tr> means table row. <td> creates a table cell. Also,
you can adjust a cell (or row, or entire table's) background color using the bgcolor thingy.
You can adjust the table border so it's either extremely wide... or extremely invisible ...
(border=0) To make a cell wider than two columns, you can set it with colspan=2 (or any
other number) rowspan=2 makes the row stretch 2 other rows. Remember, to add in
</table> because if you don't add it in, on browsers like Netscape the entire page will
be blank! (I think it's ok if you don't on MSIE though).
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