Adding structure tags to a web page (an exercise)
Notes: Structure tags are optional but HIGHLY recommended!
All META tags are optional. META tags include information about your page to
direct search engines to find your page and provide a description, they can also
keep search engines out of private information or specify the program used to
create a web page or the author of a web page. ( here are some examples)
Directions:
In Notepad open your firstpage.htm (start Notepad, and from the file menu
choose OPEN, then don't forget to set filetype = all at the bottom of the open
dialog box so you can see your web page)
Save the file with the name secondpage.htm (choose File-SAVE
AS)
Add the following tags ABOVE the first line of you firstpage.htm code:
<html>
<head>
fill in these tags
yourself:
You should put the following 3 things
here in the head section: a title and 2 META tags.
- TITLE: give your web page a title that says "your
name's web page"
- make a meta tag that gives a description of your page
as a sample beginning web page
- make a meta tag that gives the keywords for you page
as : HTML, simple, web design, beginner
</head>
<body>
... all of the original lines of HTML
code from firstpage.htm that will be viewed on the web page go here...
Add these 2 lines BELOW the code you already entered for your firstpage.htm
</body>
</html>
Start the browser and open your secondpage.htm to be sure that it still
works, what is different?
print out and hand in your HTML code from Notepad.
