the document

A web page or HTML document has two main parts - the head and the body. The head section contains information which is not displayed to the user, except indirectly. It is the body section that the end user sees directly.

The overall structure of a web page is set out like this:

<html>     

  <head>           
    <title>Whatever you want for the title</title>
  </head>
  
  <body>
  
    <p>Put in here the contents of the page<br />
	    - the text and pictures and so on ...</p>
  
  </body>

</html>

The indented lines, and the blank lines are not necessary. They are there to help understand and follow the layout.

Note: In html pages white space is generally ignored. So if you leave extra spaces it will be collapsed down to only one space

All web pages have this basic layout. To save some time you could write this in your HTML editor or Notepad and save it as "_template.htm" (the underscore at the start of the filename will make it first in alphabetical order - in Windows anyway).