Begin developing your idea for your personal web page. Do you have a topic? How do you want it to look?

Surf! Look at web pages that others have created. Look especially at pages that are the TYPE of page that you intend to make.

Check the SOURCE -- the View Document Source selection. If you are on a web page you like, you can see exactly how the designer did it by using this tip.

Here are a few tips for you:

• Almost all HTML tags come in pairs. Make sure you type both the opening and closing tags for each element.

• You should try to put each tag or tag set on a separate line, rather than running all the text and tags together. Keeping them separate makes them easier to read and to update.

• If quotation marks are indicated around an element (such as around the WIDTH attribute in the HR tag), be sure you don't forget them!

• Don't forget both angle brackets around the tag elements.

• You can type the tags in upper or lower case letters. It will read the same way to a browser. It is preferred that you use all uppercase letters, but you can do it whichever way you please.

• HTML ignores line breaks/returns on the keyboard. To do these you will need to use the <BR> tag. Because of this, you could type all the tags in one continual line, but it is better form to place each element on a line of its own. HTML also ignores word processor commands like italics and centering. Again, special tags exist for these.

• You won't believe how much annoyance one missing angle bracket, quotation mark or / can cause!

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