HTML tags are used to mark-up HTML elements

HTML tags are surrounded by the two characters < and >

The surrounding characters are called angle brackets

HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>

The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the
second tag is the end tag

The text between the start and end tags is the element content

HTML tags are not case sensitive, <b> means the same as <B>

You can use simple HTML commands to make words or phrases
bold,
italicized,
underlined or
centered.

To make text bold, you would surround the text with <b> and </b>
To make text italic, surround the text with <i> and </i>
To underline text, surround the text with <u> and </u>
Centered text utilizes <center> and </center>

You can also use HTML tags to make nice looking links, like these:
The History News Network

Email the Webmaster

Instead of displaying the entire url when you paste a link in your content box, the user sees a nice clean active link like above; what you see (or enter) is below. In the example below, you would only change the actual url in between the quotation marks, and the Name of The Site - or whatever text you wanted displayed.

<a class="link" href="http://hnn.us/" target="_blank">The History News Network</a>

For short bulleted lists (words or phrases):

first bullet

subsequent bullets

last bullet

This is what you would enter
<li>first bullet
<li>subsequent bullets
<li>last bullet</li>


For bulleted lists using longer sentences that need to line up after wrapping. like this:

• first long longlonglonglonglong long long long long long long bullet with lots and lots of text or not really a lot of text but just sentences that you want to wrap around and look nice.
  
• subsequent loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong bullets
  
• last loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong bullet

You would simply add the <ul> tag before and after <li> tags, like this:

<ul><li>first long longlonglonglonglong long long long long long long bullet with lots and lots of text or not really a lot of text but just sentences that you want to wrap around and look nice.
<li>subsequent looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong bullets
<li>last looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong bullet</ul>

Right click here to view and/or save my basic HTML Cheat Sheet.

And here for another text file with handy foreign accent marks