There are about 10 things that you need to make a simple HTML document. These commands are used to format the page, select the display font, link to other pages, and display images.
Many commands occur in pairs.
The easiest way to determine how to do things is to look at way that other people have written their pages. To do this, find a web page that you like with your browser, then look at the page source. To do this in Netscape, under the drop-down menu, View, choose Page Source or Frame Source. This will pop up another window with the actual HTML that generated the page that you are seeing. Try this with by going to the simple.html page and then viewing its HTML source.