<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<!-- do not alter the word document in the following tag -->
<META name="resource-type" content="document">
<title>These words appear in the bar at the top of the page.</title>
<META name="description" content="write a description of your page here, please">
<META name="keywords" content="a, list, of, keywords, and phrases, separated, by, commas">
<style>
Your CSS styles go here.
</style>
</head>
<body>
Your page of text goes here and is the only thing which should be seen on the monitor screen.
This page template starts with a declaration of the document type. I use 4.0 transitional, which tells the browser to expect a mixture of HTML 4.0 style and deprecated HTML 3.2 tags.
We then declare that HTML is starting.
The head section contains our instructions to the server and should be invisible, except for the title, which appears in the top bar of the browser.
It appears that the title tags should go beneath the resource-type meta tag, if that is present.
If not your title may not show up.
It is not clear whether meta tags still attract the search engines but it has been suggested elsewhere that we do not put anything here which might try to fool the robots.
The body should contain your text.
The gadget at the bottom of the page - two paragraphs separated by a non-breaking space - is a technical trick. It adds white space at the end of the page, allowing your viewers to scroll your last lines of text past any commercial banner lying at the base of the page.
To use the template, copy and paste the text to windows notepad, delete the text between the body tags, put in your own text and save it as .htm or .html.
Your initial page should be named index.htm or index.html.
<p> <p>
</body>
</html>