NOTE - the codes in a web page are enclosed in left < and right > brackets.

    1. <title> Joe Student's Web Page </title>
      this code indicates what the system is to display in the web page title bar when a browser views the page. The /code indicates the end of that code
    2. <P>
      causes the system to double space (insert a blank line)
    3. <BODY bgcolor=blue text=white link=red vlink=green>
      indicates the background color is to be blue, the text white (which by the way white text will not print), the links are to be red and the visited links (sites you have linked to already) will be displayed in green instead of red. The links are red until you click on them then they turn green
    4. <center><H1>Joe Student</H1></center>
      causes text to be centered and shown in large type. H1 is the largest size. the /H1 and /center end that function
    5. < img src = "duck.gif" height=100 width=150 >
      Graphic image source is a disk file called duck.gif. display it 100 pixels high and 150 pixels wide
    6. < BR >
      causes single spacing to occur, go to the next line
    7. <HR>
      causes a horizontal ruled line to appear in the web page
    8. <h2>Personal Data</h2>
      displays the text in the second largest font, H2
    9. I am presently a student at
      <a href="http://www.cayuga-cc.edu">Cayuga Community College</a>
      the HREF is a hypertext reference indicating the URL you want to link to, the text after the code (Cayuga Community College) is the words that are the link. the /a ends the anchor
    10. <h6>last updated: June 2, 1999</h6>
      H6 is small type
    11. </BODY></HTML>
      end the body information and the html codes in the document