Hello, I'm Renato Junior, and you're here to learn HTML in 180-second videos. In this video, you will learn the basic structure of HTML.

By convention, the homepage of a website in HTML should be named "index.html". To create this file, open Notepad++, click on “File,” and then on “Save As.” In the window that opens, choose the folder where you want to save the file and set the name as "index.html". Make sure the file is saved with this exact name to ensure the homepage functions correctly.

Once the file is saved with the correct name, you can now add the basic HTML structure.

You'll notice that every HTML page begins with a document type declaration, followed by the opening of the HTML tags. Inside the HTML tags, you will find two main sections: the head and the body.

Conventionally, inside the <head> tag, you'll find only metadata, such as information, settings, and other elements that generally do not appear as visible content on the page. The <body> section, on the other hand, contains everything that is visible to users, like text, images, links, and other elements that make up the page's interface.

In this example, within the <head>, we configure the page title, which will appear to the user outside of the main content.

Inside the <body> is where the main content visible to the user will be displayed. To see if your changes have worked, simply click the save button. Go to the folder where you saved the file and double-click to open it in your browser.

And there you have it, you just created your first HTML code.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title> The page title </title>
    </head>
    <body>
        Here it is the web page content
    </body>
</html>

In the next lesson, you'll learn some new tags for text formatting.

Basic HTML Structure: HTML in 180 Seconds - Episode 3