Every HTML page should start as in the HTML on this page - View the Page Source to see it (and of course you don't see the tags in the browser window.) The whole page is enclosed in the pair of HTML tags. Note the forward slash ('/') which begins the closing one of a pair of tags. (You can use upper or lower case: but XHTML requires you to use lower case - here the tags themselves are lower case but they are referred to in upper case) Between these two tags, there should be exactly one HEAD tag (along with its /HEAD) followed by exactly one BODY tag (along with its /BODY) The title is part of the HEAD, and this text is the BODY in this example. You will sometimes see the HEAD containing other, perhaps strange, things: none of these appear displayed in the main browser window. Perhaps you have already noticed: the way the HTML is laid out in the page source (spaces and line breaks) does not affect the way it displays in the browser window. Don't forget the tags below as well to finish off!