Drafting a Web Page

HTML Code

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Writing Workshop II Home Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
(All Web page contents will go here.)
</BODY>
</HTML>

Step 1
Explanation: The Simple HTML Container

The Minimal Components of an HTML Document

Every HTML document should contain certain standard HTML tags. These are:

The <HTML></HTML> tag, which identifies the document as HTML format.
The <HEAD></HEAD> tag, which identifies the header portion of the document.
The <TITLE></TITLE> tag, which is contained within the <HEAD></HEAD>tag. The title element contains your document title and identifies its content in a global context. The title is displayed in the browser menu, but not within the text area. The title is also what is displayed on someone’s bookmark list, so choose something descriptive, unique, and relatively short.
The <BODY></BODY> tag, which contains the actual content of the page: paragraphs, lists, images and other elements.

Because you should include these tags in each file, you might want to create a template file with them.

Naming Files

At this point, you should save your file. The file extension .html or .htm indicates that this is an HTML document and must be used on all HTML files. It is also a standard convention to call the main page of your site index.html or index.htm. This is because most Web servers are set up to recognize “index” files as “home” pages, so that if someone goes to your site they need only type the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) up to the name of the directory in which your index.html file resides. For example, in http://www.mycollege.edu/professor/, the index file will be called automatically. Other pages that you create may be named descriptively--or example, schedule.html or syllabus.html.

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