Let's open up simpletext or some other word processing program and type in the basic outline for an HTML document.
It should look like this:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Type in a title for your document and also a title in the body of the document using a section header (refer back to HTML 101 for an explanation of section headers). Here is mine:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
George's page of lists
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>George's page of lists</H1> --------> section header
</BODY>
</HTML>
Now put in a paragraph of text explaining why you would take up precious server space with your page:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
George's page of lists
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>George's page of lists</H1>
<P> --------> paragraph tag
<HR> --------> horizontal rule tag
<P>
This is my page of lists. It contains lists of things I like. But first let's define what a list is:
<P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Let's use the definition list tags now:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
George's page of lists
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>George's page of lists</H1>
<P>
<HR>
<P>
This is my page of lists. It contains lists of things I like. But first let's define what a list is:
<P>
<DL> --------> opening definition list tag Here they are!
<DT>List --------> definition term tag
<DD>A series of words. --------> definition description tag
</DL> -------->closing definition list tag
</BODY>
</HTML>
Save this document (*REMEMBER* this document needs to be saved as .html at the immediate end of the name you gave the document) in your word processing program and then open it using your browser.
You can compare what your document looks like with the example document I have included (lists.html).
If you do not see something similar:
1.check your typing
2.make sure the document is saved as an HTML document