HTML document consists of text. Text is formatted by HTML TAGS. Tag is the piece of code inserted by < and > signs. Consider the following example that creates the minimum web page....
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello World</TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "Description" NAME = "Description" CONTENT = "This page is simply a basic HTML page">
<META HTTP-EQUIV = "Keywords" NAME = "Keywords" CONTENT = "HTML, tutorial, learning, example">
</HEAD>
<BODY>

This is a very simple web page
</BODY>
</HTML>
To make this very simple document just copy and past code into you notepad or other simple word processor then save it as youname.html . It is important to change the file extension in order to open this document is Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.