Dragon Mage Graphics

Dragon Mage Graphics
HTML From Scratch

Okay, these are the requirements for your use of this HTML tutorial:

Notepad, Simple Text, or any other program you have that allows you to save .txt files. If you have a Windows, you should have Notepad. If you have a Mac, you should have Simple Text.
Patience. You'll need it.
If you DON'T have Simple Text or Notepad, but you DO have a webpage already, open up a new window and an Advanced HTML Editor.

That's all. Do me a favor and read the text between the examples...I don't think the examples will be enough. All the informaiton that is in red is changable.

<html>
<head> <title> welcome </title> </head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

This is the bare minimum for any page. The <title> area is when the browser gets the Title Bar's Message from. For instance, look at the top of your screen. It should read "Dragon Mage Graphics" because that is what I have between my <title> tags.

<html>
<head> <title> welcome </title> </head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" link="#0000ff" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#FFFFFF">

</body>
</html>

Several tags have been added to the <body> tag. These will be the colors of the site. Below is a chart of what each of the additions mean:

Addition	Meaning
bgcolor	Background Color
text	Text Color
link	Link Color
alink	Actived Link Color
vlink	Visited Link Color

You can change the colors I have used, but please use hex codes to do so. Need hex color codes? Check out Doug's Codes. If you use words (eg "black" or "blue") some computers might read a different color. I don't know why.

Now you have the bare basics of a web page. If you open it up on web browser, you will have just a background and a title. If you are looking to add more, go on to the next stage.

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