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Assembling a Complete Page - Bringing the HTML Fundamentals Together

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We've spent the series exploring HTML one piece at a time: structure, text, links, media, grouping, forms, semantics, and accessibility. Now it's time to see how all of those pieces behave in a single, coherent document.

A real webpage isn't a collection of isolated tags, it's a flow of meaning.

Here's a small example that stitches the fundamentals together into one friendly page:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Simple HTML Example</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    <header>
      <h1>The Little HTML Guide</h1>
      <nav>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="#intro">Intro</a></li>
          <li><a href="#article">Article</a></li>
          <li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
      </nav>
    </header>

    <main>
      <section id="intro">
        <h2>Welcome</h2>
        <p>This page collects everything we've covered so far, from structure and semantics to forms and basic accessibility.</p>
      </section>

      <article id="article">
        <h2>A Quick Article</h2>
        <p>HTML becomes much clearer once you see it all together. The goal isn't perfection, it's understanding.</p>
        <img src="forest.jpg" alt="Sunlight shining through a forest." />
      </article>

      <aside>
        <h3>Related Note</h3>
        <p>This is extra context placed alongside the main content.</p>
      </aside>

      <section id="contact">
        <h2>Contact</h2>
        <form>
          <label for="name">Your name</label>
          <input id="name" type="text" />

          <label for="message">Message</label>
          <textarea id="message"></textarea>

          <button type="submit">Send</button>
        </form>
      </section>
    </main>

    <footer>
      <p>&copy; 2025 Theo Snyman</p>
    </footer>
  </body>
</html>
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There's nothing advanced here, and that's the point. This small page demonstrates how every part of HTML supports another part: structure shapes meaning, semantics make navigation logical, accessibility makes it usable, and the content becomes readable.

When you can look at a page like this and understand why each element exists, you've reached the stage where HTML stops being memorization and starts becoming a language you can think in.

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