...start with a
comment
giving some description of the document
<!--
the beginner.html example homepage for new HTML writers
-->
...mention that this document follows the
HTML Document Type Definition
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
...mark the following chunk as HTML
<html>
...your document control information goes in the header.
<head>
- <title>
username: Homepage</title>
</head>
...your text, graphics, etc. go in the body.
<body>
...let's begin with a centered H1 header, marking its start and end.
<h1 align=center>My Homepage</h1>
...now start a paragraph (which could also have been centered).
<p>
Welcome to my homepage! I like
...make a link to the Ubuntu homepage, using a hypertext anchor.
<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">Ubuntu Linux</a>,
...notice how the anchor was ended after "Unicode".
and
...now an anchor to the ThinkGeek shop.
<a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com//">ThinkGeek
...and an obligatory computer picture.
<img src="/img/indigo2.gif" alt="Indigo2 Computer" >
</a>
...and an anchor for sending mail (not always supported)
Send me <a href="mailto:username">mail</a> if you do too.
...now end the paragraph started earlier.
</p>
</body>
</html>