		Introduction
		Outline
		FAQs

	Components

		Overview
		Text
		Graphics
		Audio/Video
		HTML
		Saving as HTML

	Syntax

		Overview
		Tag format
		Nesting tags
		Example
		Case Sensitivity

	Essential Tags

		Overview
		<html>
		<head>
		<title>
		Description
		<body>
		Tag Attributes
		Hands on

	HTML Headings

		<h1> - <h6>
		Hands on

	Text

		Boldfacing
		Italicizing
		Underlining
		Hands on

	Layout

		Line breaks
		Paragraphs
		Centering
		Indenting
		Horizontal rules
		Comments
		Hands On

	Links & Images

		Links to pages
		Links for e-mail
		Links to images
		Hands on

	Publishing

		Steps
		Hands on

	Also See

		HTML Intermediate
		HTML Resources

Essential Document Tags

There are five essential tags for for an HTML document. When you put these tags together in the right order, you have a fully functional Web page. A basic HTML document will look like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Document title goes here</title></head> <body>
Textual and graphic contents of the document go here.
</body> </html>

NIS | OIT | Boston University | January 9, 2007