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This is our standard header for every web page.


Always start a web page with the html and head tags.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD html 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>

The title tag goes in the header section.
This is the "name" the page will have when viewed by the sitemap program.

<title>Baywalk.net - HTML Lessons - Start Of Page</title>

End the head header section tag.

</head>

Start the body tag. Define the default text color to be black and the background to be something like wallpaper.jpg or wallpaper.gif.

<body text="black" background="/images/wallpaper.gif">

Change the text color to blue.

<font color="blue">

Display a title on the top of the page using the header 3 tag.
It will be in red and centered.

<center><h3>Baywalk.net - HTML Lessons - Start Of Page</h3></center>

Change the text color back to black. Begin centering for the start of page section.

<font color="black">
<center>

Actual name or function of the page. It will be in black and bold faced.

<b>Start Of Page</b>

End centering for the start of page section.

</center>

Line break or carriage return.

<br>


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