What are tags?
Tags are instructions used when developing an HTML document.
A tag is needed for every detail of an HTML document. If an image is to be inserted a tag is needed, if a lot of text is included a tag is needed, so on and so forth.
There are so many tags needed to create an HTML page, that there is no way one can memorize them all. Below is a link that gives a list of tags that are commonly used in HTML formatting.
www.w3schools.com/html/html_quick.asp
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allows formatting without the use of tags. To do this style rules, which are instructions that describe the formatting, are created within a style sheet then added to the document. The following are created when using CSS formatting:
As with previous design elements, careful placing and determing of all these formatting points in necessary for an appealing web page.
Internal links connect to other files within the same site. this is very important once two or more pages are created in order to get from one page to another. In order to create links href (hypertext reference) is needed before each link.
External links connect to other we sites. This is used when additional information and resources are needed in your site. When creating external links the protocol http:// is needed before each link.
Email links connect to an email message window. This gives your site visitors a way to contact you for information. In this case these links use the mailto protocol with the email address as the href.
Jump links allow users to jump from a link on a page to a specific point on that page or another page. This is really handy on particularly long pages. When creating jump links for the same page a # and the target element's ID are needed before the file name. A jump link to another page is the file name and then the # and the target element's ID.
There are many different formatting elements in HTML. A few of the most common elements include: