The very last elements of the file should be </BODY> and </HTML> (Upper/lower case doesn't usually matter either).
You can write whatever you want. Just how you write it
is unimportant, but if you want lines and paragraphs to break,
when you view it with a WWW browser (not with an editor or like
we may be doing right now) you have to put in appropriate tags
which are P for paragraph and BR for line breaks.
(in angle brackets < >).
Otherwise, "white space" is ignored.
Note: the paragraph and linebreak tags (along with a couple others) are not necessarily paired with, for example, a "slash P". In fact, there is no "slash BR"!
The next tag draws a horizontal rule (line) across the whole page.
But the neat part is making HYPERTEXT LINKS!!
That's where the fun really starts, and the Web becomes the Web!
Here is a link that points to a file that resides in the same directory as this one-- the one you came here from!: AFN HomePage Instructions
This one, on the other hand, points to a file on a machine somewhere else on the Web Crash course on writing documents for the Web
Now we're getting pretty advanced, so we'd better stop here! There are lots of tutorials for HTML-writing out there on the Web. I hope you enjoy them.
If you're reading this page in plain text, you'll have to hit the LEFT-ARROW key to go back to the previous document.
Once last trick, before I forget: if you're using Lynx, pressing the \ key will show you the html source of the file you're browsing. In NetScape and Mosaic, there is a menu item for "view source". That will help you learn tons of other stuff you can do with HTML.
Enjoy!