(To see the HTML source code for this page, click View and then Page Source.  Compare it line by line to what you see here.  Also read a tutorial on HTML, for instance, this one.)

Large page headers are embedded in h1 tags

Text outside of tags appears in the standard font.
Hyperlinks are embedded in "anchor" tags: Math department The first tag has additional information, which is the URL for the content. Between the tags goes the text for the link.
You can make the new page open in a new window: Opens Math department in a new window

The "p" tag leaves some space and starts a new paragraph. Hyperlinks to files in the same directory as the current .html file do not need the full URL, since the location is understood. Make a link to a file in your public_html folder: Math 592 syllabus
If you put another .html file in your public_html folder, you can make a link from your home page to it. Link to page about my hobbies
You can put additional folders in your public_html folder. My Canadian vacation
This link refers to an html file inside a folder called vacationpictures that you put in your public_html folder.


This displays an image on the screen. You can change its size.

You can make a hyperlink from an image file:

And you can display images that are stored on someone else's web page:

Smaller headings are encased with h2 tags

It is easy to make bold text and italic text and even bold underlined italic text
  1. This is the first item in a numbered list
  2. The browser numbers them automatically

You can use a "mailto" to put your email address online, but then spammers can easily crawl the web and collect your email address. Instead, I like to display it as an image: