HTML is just the sum total of all these tags. Okay, you're ready to get down to some brass HTML tacks. You'll begin by cobbling together a few HTML tags that constitute the underlying skeleton of all Web pages. This tag doesn't do a whole heckuva lot except tell any Web browser that tries to read the file that it's dealing with a file that contains HTML knickknacks. The head section is like an introduction to the page.
Web browsers use the head to glean various types of information about the page.
Although there are a number of items that can appear in the head section, the only one that makes any real sense to us mere mortals is the title of the page, which I'll talk about in the next section. The body section is where you enter the text and other fun stuff that will actually appear on the Web page. On the excitement scale, these opening moves rank right up there with watching the grass grow and tuning in to C-SPAN on a slow news day. To relieve some of the inevitable boredom of these early stages of Web page creation, you'll find some help on the disk that comes with this book. You can use this file as a template each time you start a new Web page.