The Basic Structure
For any HTML to work, you must have a basic structure to it. The very, VERY basic structure looks like this:

< HTML >

< HEAD >

< TITLE >

< /TITLE >

< /HEAD >

< BODY >

< /BODY >

< /HTML >

Here is a brief description of each:

HTML: This is the very basis of your webpage...without putting this on your page, nothing will show up. It must be opened at the very beginng: (< HTML >) and it must be "closed" at the very end (< /HTML >).

HEAD: This goes around the TITLE section of your page and it too must be "opened" (< HEAD >) and "closed" (< /HEAD >).

TITLE: This is where you will put the title of your page...if you wanted to put "My brand new homepage", it would look like this: < TITLE >My brand new homepage< /TITLE > (must be opened and closed too).

BODY: This is the heart of your page..you open it right after the title and close it right before the "html" is closed. Everything that you want on your page will be written in between the < BODY > and < /BODY > symbols.

SO, to use the "My brand new homepage" example from above, this is what we would have so far:

< HTML >
< HEAD >
< TITLE >My brand new homepage< /TITLE >
< /HEAD >
< BODY >
Working on my brand new page and trying to learn the html to do it.
< /BODY >
< /HTML >

Ok, we have that part down pat, now we are going to add some color to our background, text and links so please proceed to here.

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