All HTML commands use the greater than, less than symbols to surround them. This is to differentiate between what is a HTML command and just plain text. There are a few commands which don't need an ending because they just do one thing. We will be going into them in more detail in future articles. When using HTML you must be very careful to include things such as spaces and quotation marks as the browser won't recognise the command or element unless you type it in exactly as it should be.
Spelling is also very important.
HTML uses the American version so this is something to watch out for if your web page is not appearing as it should. That means you must put in a capital letter if it is part of the name of a graphic or an address. You may have accidentally left the caps lock on when you have dialled in on WebFront and it hasn't recognised the login name or password. This is because to Unix the capitalised version is a completely different name. However, there are a few exceptions to this rule which will be stated when we come to the appropriate commands.