This is Heading 1

You may notice that your text always starts at left of page. If you want your text to start in center or to right you will need to specify where you want your text to start. Here are some examples of aligning text:

To align to right you need to set text as a paragraph unto itself by using

tag and adding an attribute to it.

Text here will align on right of page

Why did I put an end tag

or return command
. Using

or
command by itself does not require an end tag, but if you are adding an attribute then an end tag must be used.

Adding an image to your page would require following tag:

-you would replace “image.jpg” with your own image file. IMG stand for image and SRC stand for source. You’re telling your browser where to find your image file. Your image file could have a gif, jpg, or a bmp association.

Ok now let’s get a little more complicated and create a hyperlink on your document. This creates blue underlined words on page that someone can click on and go to another location. An example is you’re creating a link to another website.

Myhomepage - this is what in looks like in HTML code. Note you are adding a description of link that will be underlined, see example below.

Myhomepage – what it looks like in normal view. When someone clicks on this link they would be taken to that particular page. I just used Myhomepage as an example.

This is a very important HTML format for when you need to add links onto your webpage. You may already know or will learn that reciprocal linking is very important in promoting your website and obtaining a higher pagerank with search engines. Sometimes HTML code is provided for you and all you have to do is “copy and paste” code into your webpage. Often it is not, so you have to figure out how to put information into HTML code yourself. Just learning this HTML command has been a timesaver for me.

I hope this article has helped you learn some basic HTML and how it can benefit you. I know, I know there are HTML text editors out there you can use and they can do all of this for you. I have used a couple myself, but I still like to know how to do things on my own. I bet you do too!  Sometimes it’s just faster and easier to do it yourself.

I’ve just given you some very basic formats in using HTML, but you can find a lot more resources and information about learning HTML on internet. Just do a search and I’m sure you will be overwhelmed at what’s out there.