The HTML Document

Tags are used to signify the beginning and the end of a document feature.
They contain the instructions for what the browser does.

This represents an opening tag < >
This represents a closing tag </ >

You place instructions inside these tags for the browser to carry out.
Think of it as the opening tag being the beginning of an instruction, and the closing tag the end of the instruction.

<HTML>....... </HTML>
Hyper Text Markup Language.
These tags enclose the entire document and define the beginning and the end of the document.

<HEAD>........</HEAD>
The head tag is used straight after the opening <HTML> tag. This is where information about the document , and specific instuctions for your browser are placed.
The Head section will contain information for the browser or server use, such as javascript, meta, style, anything that is required by the browser or server to create and show your page.

<TITLE>........</TITLE>
These tags are placed inside the HEAD tags and the title of your document is placed within these TITLE tags.
Your title will then be shown in the top titlebar of your browser.

<BODY>........</BODY>
These tags contain the HTML script that is used to display your contents in the browser window.
This could be an image or a text section, anything that you want to use to create your page.
The opening <BODY> tag is placed immediately after the closing </HEAD> tag and the closing </BODY> tag is placed the just before the closing </HTML> tag.

This is the basic layout of a HTML document.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Document Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

The Body section is where your information goes in the form of text, tables, forms, images etc.

</BODY>
<HTML>

To further enhance your page you can use CSS for styling and Javascript for functionality.

A couple of links from my CSS & Script section Applying CSS and Basics