Now minimize your Notepad window and see if the file is on your desk top. Take a look at it and try to figure out what is going on yourself before reading on. Next we will discuss what a HTML Tag is and find out why all web pages share some important things in common with this example. HTML tags always come in pairs and they enclose something. The stuff in between the tags is what the tags are operating on.
Parameters can customize a tag to change how it operates on things.
You have a powerful tool available to you with existing websites. Templates are pages that already have everything on them that is common to all the pages in a web site. Templates might contain a menu at the top or a set of graphics. One convention used in naming template files is to use the directory name. Some parts aren't so obvious, or visible for that matter.