Everything inside the file is embraced by the <HTML> tag. Inside there are two parts: The head-element and the body-element. The head contains information on the page, like
Only the contents
of the body is displayed on your page.
Thus the overall structure of a HTML page is as follows:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
my first web page
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Your text to be displayed ...
</BODY>
</HTML>
(take the following simple page, and adapt it to your needs. Download the file by rightclicking on the link and choosing "Save target".)