<A> - The Anchor tag
This tag is probably the most important tag in HTML. It is what makes the web useful. The A tag is used to link web pages or documents. For example, the following is a link... (Click back to return to this page) My home page
When you clicked on the line (My home page), you were taken to the main page of my site. Thus, the line was a link. It links you to another page on the web. You find links everywhere on the internet. The web would not have been so easy if not for links. Ok, the basic format to create a link is this...
<A HREF="http://www.sitename.com">Anything here</A>
where you would replace http://www.sitename.com with the url of where you want to go. Say, you want the users to click on the following link and it will link them to www.yahoo.com, so
(Click back on your browser to return) Click here to go to yahoo!
The code I used was
<A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com">Click here to go to yahoo!</A>
Thats about all you need to know to build a decent site. Just be sure not to get too excited and put a lot of images, because that slows down the downloading speed of your page and your visitors would get frustrated. There are lots of other stuff like tables and frames that you could learn but this is enough to build a site without the help of those damn auto site builders from which you have to choose from specific templates, and have to put images where they tell you to put...
Go on to the next page for some miscellaneous tags that I did not cover.
Have fun. Email me if you have any specific questions.
