HTML Reference Guide
If you dont have a webpage here's where to start.

If your an advance user visit these links:

the NCSA beginner's guide to HTML
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3) HTML specifications page
Java Script
Ender Design
Backgrounds
Bells and Whistles
Menu
Cool Text
Mouse over's
Flaming Text
GUI Stuff
Java
Media Builder
Scribler Editor
Tutorial
Web Images

Using an HTML editor is very easy to program html and this reference guide will provide an understanding by editing HTML in Notepad which is an html editor, just construct all the tags.
Now anyone can program in any HTML editor or Notepad, just use the commands. To Start the web page HTML tells Notepad its an html file, just make sure you save your web page as html by: save as, your webpage name.html.

If your just making a webpage on the fly, use Notepad.

The code in this reference guide is in HTML 4.0
This is the frame work of a webpage:

<html>

<head>

<TITLE> </TITLE>

</head>

<body>

</body>

Now let's make a web page.

<html>

<head>

<TITLE>This is the title of your site in the browser title bar </TITLE>

</head>

<body>This is your content in the body of your web page. It includes comands for text, graphics, and the background.

</body>and this is close / in all HTML tags / closes that command. In this case it's the end of the web page.

Headings
Alignment
Horizontal Rulers
Debuging
Character Formating
Nesting
Character Size
Color
Special Characters

Heading 1

<H1>Heading 1</H1>

Heading 2

Heading 3

There are 6 levels of headings H1-H6 from largest to smallest.

Alignment left
<DIV align=left>Alignment left</DIV>
Alignment Right
<DIV align=right>Alignment right</DIV> BR>
CENTER
<CENTER>CENTER</CENTER>

Horizontal Rulers: HR TAG: <HR WIDTH="##%" SIZE="##"ALIGN="ALIGNMENT">
<HR WIDTH="60%" SIZE="6" ALIGN="LEFT">



<HR WIDTH="60%" SIZE="6" ALIGN="LEFT"Color="Red">

<HR>


<MARQUEE BGCOLOR="RED"> This is a scrolling marquee </MARQUEE> This is a scrolling marquee

Debuging your document
Check that qoutation marks are added and that your tags are closed.

Bold Character Formating Tags
<B>Bold Character Formating Tags</B>

Strong Character Formating Tags
<STRONG>Strong Character Formating Tags</STRONG>

Italics Character Formating Tags
<I>Italics Character Formating Tags</I>

Emphasized Character Formating Tags
<EM>Emphasized Character Formating Tags</EM>

Italic Character Formating Tags
<CITE>Italic Character Formating Tags</CITE>

Italic line break Character Formating Tags
<ADDRESS>Italic line break Character Formating Tags</ADDRESS>

Strikethrough text Character Formating Tags
<STRIKE>Strikethrough text Character Formating Tags</STRIKE>

Underline Character Formating Tags
<U>Underline Character Formating Tags</U>

Superscript above level of regular textCharacter Formating Tags
<SUP>Superscript above level of regular textCharacter Formating Tags</SUP>

Below level Character Formating TagsH2O
<SUB>Below level Character Formating Tags</SUB>H<SUB>2</SUB>O

fixed width font Character Formating Tags
<CODE>fixed width font Character Formating Tags</CODE>

Nesting tags. Close your tags in the reverse order

Character Size
FONT SIZE -2 TO +4
<FONT size=+6>FONT SIZE -2 TO +4</FONT>

FONT SIZE
<BIG>FONT SIZE</BIG>

FONT SIZE
<SMALL>FONT SIZE</SMALL>

COLOR

LightBlue
<FONT color=lightblue>LightBlue</FONT>

Blue
<FONT color=blue>Blue</FONT>

DarkBlue
<FONT color=darkblue>DarkBlue</FONT>

LightGreen
<FONT color=lightgreen>LightGreen</FONT>

Green
<FONT color=green>Green</FONT>

DarkGreen
<FONT color=darkgreen>DarkGreen</FONT>

Yellow
<FONT color=yellow>Yellow</FONT>

Text
<FONT color=#871F78>Text</FONT>

More Colors are: Light and Dark magenta, Gray, Brown, Red, Cyan
or use the RGB Values exp rgb=#871F78

Special Characters

Copyright ©
&copy;

Trademark ™
&trade;

Registered trademark ®
&reg;

Dollar sign $
&#36;

Greater than >
&gt;

Less than <
&lt;

"At" symbol @
&#64;

Ampersand &
&amp;

A Non-breaking space   gives you an extra blank space
&nbsp;

For a list of special characters visit http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_13.html