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In this chapter, I shall show you how to turn a piece of ordinary text into a web page. We will be using Act I, Scene I of Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"" as our example. Here is what we begin with...

Macbeth ===    ACT I
  SCENE I.
     A deserted place.
     Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.
 First Witch: When shall we three meet again
              In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
 Second Witch: When the hurlyburly’s done,
               When the battle’s lost and won.
 Third Witch: That will be ere the set of sun…

The Basic Structure of a Web Page

Now, remember: HTML is for describing the structure of the document - not how you want it to look. We’ll start by adding in a few basic HTML “tags” that should be used in every HTML page:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ”-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”> <html>
 <head>
 </head>
 <body>
 Macbeth
 =======  ACT I
  SCENE I.
     A deserted place.
    …"