All the information here has been taken from How Stuff Works at http://www.howstuffworks.com/
There are four main elements to a web page
Web page (contains text files and html code to describe formats and pictures)
html language (formats text, pictures, tables to different sizes, colours, etc)
Web browser (internet explorer, does two things. 1 Finds the page on the world wide web 2 Interprets the html code)
Web server (saves your web page so that it can be found by a web browser)
HTML Language
You can view the html code of any web page by right clicking with your mouse and choosing view source. A window will appear displaying the html code (do this now). You will be able to pick out some of the text and understand some of the HTML language.
Creating your first web page
<html> tells the Web browser that this is the beginning of an html document
<head> tells that Web browser that this is the header for the page
<title>My First Page</title> the title of the page on the Web browser
</head> The tag needed to end the body
<body> the beginning of the Web page everything you want to say and see
Hi. This is my first page!
</body> The tag needed to end the body
</html> The tag needed to end the html document
Copy the html *without the explanations in blue* into front page in code view or html editor in tripod and preview your first ever web page.