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 HTML
Made Easy
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.
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HOW TO
CENTER TEXT
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.
HOW
TO CHANGE SIZE OF TEXT
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!
HOW TO
MAKE A BREAK TAG
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
HOW TO
CHANGE TEXT COLOR
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..
HOW TO
CHANGE THE BACKGROUND COLOR
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
HOW TO
MAKE TEXT BOLD
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
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:
HOW TO
UNDERLINE TEXT
<U>your
text you want underlined here</u>
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)
ADDING LISTS TO YOUR PAGE
<UL>
<LI>Recipe Number One
<LI>Recipe Number Two
</UL>
This will give you a bulleted list:
- Recipe Number One
- 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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