Anatomy of a WebPage
Now that you know about HTML tags and attributes, you can write your own web page! If you want to try out some of these examples, you can just grab your favorite text editor (Atom and Sublime are both popular, but anything works) and create a new file called test.html somewhere on your computer. Open that file in Chrome (or any other browser), and check out your brand new, empty website!
Hello World in HTML
HTML files should always start with an html tag. Inside the html tag, you'll have a head and body tag. The head section can contain some special information for the browser (the language, a description, some keywords for search engines, etc...). The body tag will contain all the actual content that the user sees.
A simple page would look like this:
Viewing an HTML page
Your HTML file doesn't need to actually be on the internet to see what it looks like. To open a HTML file locally, just right click the file and choose to open it with your browser. You should see a beautiful blank page with just your message to the user.
If you ever update a html file, but your changes don't appear in the browser, you may need to force-refresh the page. In Chrome, the shortcut is Shift + F5. This gives the browser a heads-up that you modified the page.
Adding a title
You may have noticed that the title in the browser tab just says test.html. You can change it to say something more interesting by using the title tag. It goes in the header section and let's the browser know what you want the page title to be. With a title, the file would look like this:
If you refresh the page in your browser, you'll see the title has updated. Nice work!
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