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The Basic Structure of a HTML Template

Explanation of the HTML tags

Sep 3, 2007 16:50 GMT  ·  By
A Basic HTML Template Code
   A Basic HTML Template Code

HTML, HyperText Markup Language, is a language that allows you to create web pages. The developer uses HTML tags to create the HTML document. For example, you can use HTML tags to format text, paragraphs, create tables and much more. In order to create HTML documents you need only a text editor and a web browser. We provide below a simple HTML template:

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my web site

My homepage.......
Every HTML document will contain at the beginning "HTML" tag. Every tag "TAG" must have a closing "TAG". The "head" tag contains the "title" tag which gives the document title that appears in the web browser title bar, in this case "my web site". Also between "head" tags there are also "META" tags used by search engines to index the document. The first "META" tag from the template shown here is referring to the website description as it appears in web searches and the second "META" tag has the keywords relevant for the site content. The document body is delimited by "body" tag. Here you will find the web page content that could be formed by tables, images, text or anything else.

There are many other tags that could be embedded in the "head", respectively in the "body" tags, but this example template represents only the basic structure of any HTML document. For complex documents you can use a HTML generator. These are applications that automatically create the HTML tags for you, generating complex html templates (with CSS, javascript and more), interlinked between them to form a complete website. This basic HTML document structure should be followed in every design because it provides the certitude of a correct HTML document. This HTML template structure will determinate an optimal design of every website.