The same is true for any skill, here HTML. I do not recommend you exhume dead to come up with good web pages, but it is necessary that you understand them inside out. You should know what tag does exactly what, how, and how it can be manipulated to do what you want to do.

We had concluded previous section with all pervasive tag: . This tag informs reader (a browser or a word-processor, or anything that reads HTML) that file being considered is a web page.

Let's see what step 4 has in store.

== Step 4: ==

Within tags, insert another tag so that your lines look like:

Within head tag, we store all information that we want browser to read first before proceeding to read rest of stuff, for instance, title of page, information about author, meta tags (some of meta tags causes your page to be found when user tries to find a page like yours, through his/her preferred search engine or directory, for instance, "Description" and "Keywords" meta tags), etc. For time being, we'll have just Title tag here, as right now we are in no hurry to be found by all and sundry.

Assuming you could assimilate gushing fountain of wisdom in previous articles, we move onto streams of more evolved tags. Let's start with graphics.

Graphics enhance look of a page, they make it more informative [One picture is worth a thousand words, etc.], and they give your page an identity. But don't go over board - total size of one page should not, ideally, exceed 25 KB. There are many other issues involved with web-based graphics, but at this moment, we are just covering HTMLization of graphic files.

== Step 7: ==

To include graphics, we use tag in this manner:

Where "picture.gif" is some graphic file that you already have in same folder. If graphic file is not present in same folder as your HTML page, then you have to specify entire path of file being used. For example, if your HTML file is in root directory, and "picture.gif" is in a sub-directory - graphics - of your root-directory, syntax turns out to be:

"/" (forward slash) is for servers. For your local hard-drive, you should use "" (back slash).

SRC is an attribute of and it stands for "source".

There are primarily two graphic file formats prevalent on web, namely, GIF and JPG. GIF files use lesser colors, and hence are smaller in size and load quicker, and further, animated graphics can be created out of GIF files. JPG files are more refined, and we use them to display graphics that require clarity and greater pixel density, for instance, a photograph. More efficacious formats are being developed in meantime to suit Internet compatibility.

In some tags, you don't have to use closing tag. We don't use with .