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All beginning
website owners need to know at least a little HTML to use on their
website. Basic HTML can make your website look great! I will
show you some easy HTML that you can use to help your site look
its best. HTML knowledge is also great for setting up nice ebay
auctions! This is only the beginning of how much you can do with
HTML.
Text is
automatically set to stay to the left of the page. If you would
like to center it, simply use the code below!
<center>your words go here</center>
The <center> starts the center tag, and when you want to end it
</center> ends it. Anything written after the </center> will go
back to the default (left) side of the page.
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HOW TO
CHANGE SIZE OF TEXT
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Changing size of text helps draw attention to certain parts of
text that you want to stand out. Using the easy tag below will
change the size for you.
<font size=5> your text goes here </font size>
Your text size will change
like this
size 3
size 4
size 5
You can change the 5 to a different number and see what size you
like!
If you would like to write something and not have it run all
together like a sentence, just use this handy break tag!
Example:
first line of text
here<br>
second line here<br>
third line here<br>
Which would
produce
first line of text
here
second line here
third line here
Changing text color is simple and can really make your auction
look nicer. Here is the code below.
<font color=blue> text goes here
</font color>
This makes your text BLUE
You can also visit
THIS SITE for tons of great color codes to use. Or just change
the 'blue' in the code to another color, such as red, green, etc..
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HOW TO CHANGE
THE BACKGROUND COLOR
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This code will let you change the white background in your
auction. Just make sure you have a text color that looks good with
it and can be easily read.
<body bgcolor=E6E6FA>
This color code should make your background a lavender color! To
get more color codes,
click here
Draw attention to certain words or sentences by using this easy
code to make your text BOLD
<b> your text here
</b>
This will produce:
your text here
in bold
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HOW TO MAKE
MOVING TEXT (MARQUEE) |
Yes, we have all
seen it and think it's a neat feature on websites. The moving
text. This is called a Marquee. It can easily be done, simply
add
<marquee>your text here</marquee>
and you get:
<U>your
text you want underlined here</u>
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OPEN A NEW
WINDOW (text or image) |
Opening a new window when someone
clicks on a link on your site is very handy when you do not want
them to leave your site, but want to direct a visitor to another
page outside your website or within your website but want them to
be able to stay on the page where the link is.
target="_blank" is the tag that
makes this work.
For example,
<A HREF="http://www.mommyclassifieds.com"
target="_blank">
Visit Us!</A>
will produce:
Visit Us!
<---when you click on this you will see that it opens a new window
and you can still view this page.
You can also do this with a image
<A HREF="http://www.mommyclassifieds.com"
target="_blank">
<IMG SRC="http://www.mommyclassifieds.com/homeimage3.jpg">
</A>
Would give you: (will open in a
new window)
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ADDING LISTS TO
YOUR PAGE |
<UL>
<LI>Recipe Number One
<LI>Recipe Number Two
</UL>
This will give you a bulleted list:
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Recipe Number One
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Recipe Number Two
*The <LI> tags do not require a
closing tag. The list is indented a little from the rest of the
text.
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