This hand-coded SVG example presents the initial stage of constructing a smiley face, displaying a single large black circle centered on a blank 960 by 500 canvas. The work relies purely on raw Scalable Vector Graphics markup, with a lone `<circle>` element defined inside an `<svg>` container. No external libraries or JavaScript are used; the rendering is entirely static, and the page’s styling removes margins and hides overflow to focus on the shape. The project is titled "Smiley Face Part I" and is part of a series where additional facial features are presumably added in later steps.