Learning Basic HTML
There are a few simple tricks that everyone needs to know at one time or another when creating a web site. Here are a few tips for you. First you have to know that the things in html that do the work and tell the browser to do something are called tags and are enclosed in these little things: <> You have an opening and closing tag for everything. The opening tag tells the browser to start doing something such as bold text and then the closing tag tells it to stop bolding and let everything after that to be plain.
1. Bold Text
If you wanted to bold the words "Look Here!" you would type this:
<b>Look Here!</b>
<b> starts bolding and then the </b> tells it to stop. That is the pattern for all tags.
2. Italicized text
<i>Look Here!</i>
3. Bigger text
<font size="3">Big Text You Want Here</font>
4. Colored Text
<font color="ff0000">Red Text Here</font>
There is a great color map of different colors at this page: http://www.codysoft.com/textcolors.gif
5. Linking Text to another page
<a href="http://www.myfavoritesite.com/favoritepage.html">Click here to see my favorite page</a>
Where you replace the url above with the url you want people to go to when clicking the text. Replace the "click here to see my favorite page" with what you want your visitors to see and click on. It will look like this:
Click here to see my favorite page
6. Linking an image to another page
<a href="http://www.favoritesite.com/favoritepage.html"><img src="http://url.tothe.image.gif"></a>
7. Putting an email link in your page:
<a href="mailto:yourmail@yourdomain.com">Email Me!</a>
(then the words "Email Me" will be clickable and will make a new email pop up for people to use to send to you.)
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