HTML Basics
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A simple example--Marking up a document

HTML is probably most easily learned by example, so let's begin by marking up a simple document. For our raw material we'll use a well-known article by Sandra Nyberg, The Invasion of the Giant Spore[1]

All the details of how the various elements of the document are to be used will be explained in greater detail later; right now we're just going to get a feel for how HTML works

As discussed earlier, we first have to decide whether the article will be presented as a single document (file) or whether it will be broken up into smaller files. We also have to decide on a name for the file. Since this is a short article, we'll keep it in a single file called "spore.html". As you progress through the sections, if it suits you, you can cut and paste the fragments of the document into your word processor or editor. If all goes well, you should have a complete, fully valid HTML document, which you can use to experiment with.