Minimalistic HTML

Want to know the easiest way to make a web page?

View the source of this page (something like "Edit -> View source", or "View ->
Page Source").  It's super, super simple.  It doesn't have any fancy
formatting, tags, or any of the other stuff that fancy websites use.  It isn't
too pretty, but hey - it doesn't take any time to learn.  

The trick is to start the top of the page with "<pre>", and
then you're done.  The only tricky thing is that you have to take care of line breaks, otherwise the line gets very very long and stretches far out to the right.


If you want to make a link to another page, do it like this:  
     <a href='http://example.com'>link text</a>

It shows up like this:
     link text

Want to show images?  Use the "img" tag like this:
     <img src="http://example.com/path_to_image.jpg">
It shows up like this:
     
Make sure the images aren't too big, or they'll take over your browser.

Want to know how to do fancier HTML?  There are lots of books and websites on
the subject.  I recommend http://w3schools.com for a good quick
introduction.  Or use the google.  If you prefer to use a fancy editor, I 
recommend OpenOffice.org.  It makes nice webpages.  Note that Microsoft Office 
does NOT make good websites.  Don't use it, it's a pain.