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With the internet becoming more affordable to everyone, it is no wonder that web sites are popping up at an alarming rate. There are several things that go into your average web page, that being HTML, CSS, XHTML, JAVA, and several other languages. While the languages play a vital role, the primary role of any web designer is planning.

The first step to any web page is planning how you want the page to look, by that I mean, where do you want pictures, titles, words, what colors, and so on. The more time you spend in the planning stage, the easier the actual build process will be. A few things to keep in mind, what is the title of your page, will you have a background picture, or a solid color? Do you want the page divided so you can have pictures on one side, and descriptions on the other, or do you want all text based?

Once the planning is done, and you have the basic layout has been decided on, now you begin the actual building task. This is the part that a lot of people get frustrated, as one misspelled word, or a bracket in the wrong place can cause an entire page to not display correctly.

To truly understand, and utilize HTML you must first understand the different parts of the language. To begin, we will discuss "tags", or the commands the browser interprets when it loads the page. To begin, each tag begins with the <> symbols, which will be replaces with {} in the article. To begin, we must first tell the browser what language we will be using. To keep things simple, we will be using HTML throughout this article. The opening of the web page with begin with "html", after opening the html tag, you would then add your title. We will use an example to help form a mental image.

{html}
{title}this is where your page title will be{/title}

If you notice, at the end of the title line, I have placed a / in the tag. This is how you close a tag, some tags require to be closed before they operate correctly. To continue from this point, we must open the heading of the page. This is the part of the code that the page reads first, housing the title and background information.

At this point, we have our language designation, and page title. After the title is where you make your background designation, that being color, picture or no picture. For this example, we will make our page with a color background, we will use the color blue. To designate the background color, we will use the "bgcolor" tag.

Our code now looks something like this:

{html}
{head}
{title}page title here{/title}

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