Anatomy of a Web Page

A web page is an ASCII, plain text, file. A web browser interprets the file's HTML (hypertext markup language) tags and displays the file's content according to the syntax rules of that computer language. HTML tags are composed of specified 'words' (TITLE, HEAD, P, IMG, etc.) within a pair of 'less than' / 'greater than' symbols (angle brackets).

HTML tags are used to:
   Format the appearance of text (italized, bolded, font face, color, size, ...).
   Convey how designated text is used within its context.
   Display textual headings.
   Generate page, line, and horzonital breaks.
   Format text into bulleted, numbered, and definition lists.
   Display related image files within the textual content of the page as if they were a part of the page.
   Create links to related locations within a page or to other web files.