Step 1: Starting an HTML Document: Right Click: new>text document

Change the name to: first.html

Open with notepad or notepad++ (which you should have anyway)

This is the first thing you will see in a simple HTML5 document. It tells the browser what kind of document this is. These <> are called tags. Things that go inside the tags are called ‘attributes’ Next is the the meta-tag which allows us to use multiple language characters in our document.

After the Doctype tag is the tag. The entire document goes in this tag. Entire document goes here

The and tags. Notice that meta does not have a closing tag

The tag contains everything you see in the There are many tags which belong in the tag. The body is where we put our text, pictures, and videos.

The HTML ‘Skeleton’ Title of the document Content of the document Memorize this: -Everything Goes inside html, it is the world -the head goes above the body -certain tags go inside the head such as: title and meta and script -Head goes between the first html tag and the first body tag