This is a sample page, containing a small amount of text in one paragraph. That was a brief bit of HTML which creates a document for display in a web browser. Then drag and drop your new file over your web browser's icon or into an open window in your web browser. This second sentence contains a link , which in this example, doesn't do much. Don't forget to click the Back button to come back here if you click the link.
Tags tell the web browser what to do.
This pair of tags opens and closes the html file, and tells the browser the page is to be rendered in English. Inside every html file you need a head section and a body section. The head section can contain one or more of a variety of tags, which tell the browser something about the file and which can help search engines like Yahoo or Google to know what the file is about and whether to list it. In this case it contains two meta tags and a title tag. I'll tell you a lot more about meta tags in a later column.