Some simple things to remember about HTML

Within a web page itself, use is made of various tags as directives to the browser. These are enclosed in < angle brackets >, and an opening tag generally matches a closing tag - so, for example an "< h3>" tag intoduces a type of highlighting that remains in force until a matching "< /h3>" tag is encountered. (The "hN" tags are used to highlight section headings.)

Section One: Paragraphs and line breaks

Within a section, the "p" tag introduces a new paragraph.

As you can see, we have a new paragraph!

Here is another new paragraph. Within a paragraph, text is free form and is arranged by the browser as it sees fit and no account is taken of line breaks that appear in the source. To force a line break, use is made of a "br" tag.
This sentence starts on a new line.
Here is another sentence starting on a new line.

One can indent information using the "blockquote" and "/blockquote" tags. So for example:

Students' attention is drawn to the need to attend lectures regularly.

A section separator can be introduced quite effectively using an "hr" tag:

Section Two: Highlighting and bullets

Text can be italicized by bracketing it with "i" and "/i" tags; text can be also emphasized by bracketing it with "b" and "/b" tags.

The useful "ul" and "/ul" tags can be used in conjunction with "li" tags to create bulleted lists. Attention is drawn to

Section Three: Hyperlinks

References to web pages are created by using the "a" and "/a" tags in a construction that incorporates the URL, as exemplified by
Further information is available from the course web page.

As an alternative to an URL, one sometimes uses a "mailto" variant, as in

Direct questions to Pat Terry (p.terry@ru.ac.za).