Manuscript for HTML Tutorial #2

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Tutorial #2 - Starting Your Web Page in Windows® Notepad

Lesson #2: Starting a Web Page. Click the play button to begin the tutorial.
OK, you should have Notepad, or another type of plain text editor open on your computer.
The first tag we will enter is <html>.
Notice how a tag starts with a less-than symbol...
...and ends with a greater-than symbol.
The element inside of the two symbols determines the purpose of the tag.
This tag's purpose is to state that this will be an HTML document.
HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the standard method for structuring web pages.
Now, most tags come in pairs, needing both an opening and a closing tag.
So, we'll need to type in the closing </html> tag a little further down the page.
Notice that the closing tag looks just like the opening tag, except we included a forward slash right here after the less-than symbol.
Now, it really doesn't matter how much white space you leave between the two tags.
Just make sure that your closing </html> tag is always the last thing listed in your document.
All other tags, and content will be placed inside of the opening & closing html tags.
OK, go ahead and type your html tags into your text editor, and then move on to Lesson #3.

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