Lesson Anatomy of a web page 1

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In this lesson we're going to look at some of the more common structures that make up a web page. Even if you're not writing your HTML by hand, it's important to be able to recognize some of these things, particularly when you come to do your search engine optimization.

Let's start right at the top!

<html> .... </html>

When you make a webpage, it will always include these two tags. They wrap around pretty much everything else on your page, to say "this is HTML".

The "Head" section: <head> ... </head>

This part of the page is invisible when you look at the page in a browser, but provides the browser and the search engines with information about your page. Most importantly it houses your Title and your Meta tags.

It might also tell the browser where to find a CSS file that you're using to set the colors, fonts and other styles for your site, or any scripts that you might be running on that page.

The Title tags: <title> ... </title>

What you put in between your title tags is the...

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