HTML stands for Hper Text Monkey Language.
You have to think liek a chimp when you are typing. For example:
It won't hurt you to know that HTML is "white-space insensitive". By this I mean it doesn't read tabs, line breaks, paragraph breaks or even extra spaces. You have to use elements to produce these effects.
<:BR>: is an open tag that performs a line break.
<:P>: performs a paragraph break. This is the same as a line break except an extra line is inserted between the two paragraphs.
<:HR>: inserts a horizontal line across the page and forces a line break before and after it (I use one beneath the headings of my pages).
You've already glimpsed the <:H1>: heading element in the Elements and Tags Section. There are actually 6 types of headings, starting from the biggest and boldest <:H1>: heading and finishing with the smallest and weakest <:H6>: heading.
The heading element is closed. In other words, you enclose the text you want to be your heading within the start and end <:H1>: tags. You don't need to use a <:BR>: or <:P>: after a heading as a paragraph break is automatically forced. To the left is an example of how the different headings are displayed.
I could go on.....