An HTML Overview

The purpose of this page is to provide a very brief overview of HTML. Other more comprehensive sources are available elsewhere on the Internet. This is to try and help you get started with your home page.

Information Providers can receive a copy of the handbook from their Information Committee contact, or at the HWCN office.

Here are the examples presently offered in this home page:

• A Basic HTML File
• The Title
• The Body
• Headings
• Paragraphs and Line Breaks
• The Horizontal Rule
• Lists
  • Unordered Lists
  • Definition Lists
• Preformatting - for tables and columns
• Hyperlinks
  • Regular Anchors
  • The E-mail Link and Author Line
• Other Commands
  • Text Formatting - italics and bold
  • Text Centering

If you have any questions or comments, please notify your assigned Information Committee contact, or e-mail Kit Darling, Information Committee Chair.

Revised August 28, 1998, by Eric Taylor