The link tag is < a href > and it must be closed with < /a > (if you do not close it, everything under the < a href > will be highlighted like a link).
Say that on your page you wanted to put a link on there to my page (to use an example) and my url is http://www.oocities.org/ssmcbroom19/, then this is what you would write:
< a href="http://www.oocities.org/ssmcbroom19/" > Shannon's Home Page (or whatever you want to write here)< /a >
Or say that you want people to be able to click on an image as the link...and we will use our xmastree.gif image and my url:
< a href="http://www.oocities.org/ssmcbroom19/" >< IMG src="//www.oocities.org/ssmcbroom19/xmastree.gif" >< /a >
And it is as simple as that.
Since our link examples havn't taken up too much time, let's cover something else also: how to make your text bold or italic. The tags for bold are < b > < /b > and the tags for italic are < i > < /i >. You will notice that they too must be closed. If you wanted to make "working on my brand new page and trying to learn the html to do it" bold and in italic here is what we would write:
< b >< i >Working on my brand new page and trying to learn the html to do it.< /b >< /i >
And it's as easy as that! Now, let's add all that we've learned to our html page:
< HTML >
< HEAD >
< TITLE >My brand new homepage< /TITLE >
< /HEAD >
< BODY BACKGROUND="http://www.oocities.org/ssmcbroom19/angels.jpg" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0066ff" VLINK="#ff0000" >
< font size=7 >Welcome to my page! < /font >
< P >
< font size=3 >
< b >< i >
Working on my < font color="#ff0000" >brand new page< /font >and trying to learn the html to do it.
< /b >< /i >
< P >
< a href="http://www.oocities.org/ssmcbroom19/" >Click here for Shannon's Page or Click on the image below to get there< /a >
< P >
< CENTER >
< a href="http://www.oocities.org/ssmcbroom19/" >< IMG src="//www.oocities.org/ssmcbroom19/xmastree.gif" >< /a >
< /CENTER >
< /font >
< /BODY >
< /HTML >
(Notice I put some more < P >'s up there to give me some more paragraphs). If you click here, you will see how our page looks now.
And that's it! You should be able to make a fine homepage now! I will be adding harder lessons later on, like tables and border backgrounds, but for now just master these 4 lessons!