Basic HTML Tags

Building a website can be tricky. Even if you have gone the route of premade template sitebuilding, you still need to understand the basics of html tags if you want to really fine tune your posts and pages. Even blogging and social sites like myspace are easier to work if you have a basic knowledge of html tags.

Tags are built very simply, the first part of the tag consists of a control, wrapped in <>. For example the main tag is the one that tells your browser that it is looking at an HTML page. So it would look like this <html>. At the end of the page, after everything else is done you will add another tag that closes the html tag. It will look like this </html>. Very simple, right. Now each tag inside of this will compile your page.

To make it easier to understand, think of a tag as a wrapper for your content. The tag will come before you start what you want the tag to control and after the content. So lets say you want to center a paragraph or image, then you would use the center tag. So for instance your paragraph would look something like this in code:

<center> This is the body of my paragraph. It does not say anything except that it is in fact the body of a paragraph. If it said anything besides that it would not really be useful.</center>