Now,you want to get the basics set up first, so type this:
(FONT COLOR="AQUA")(FONT SIZE="3")(FONT FACE="ARIAL")(/FONT)
PUT THIS IN RIGHT AFTER (BODY BGCOLOR=" ")
This will be your default setting. You can alter it to anything you would like, and later on you can change individual words,etc. The (FONT) specifies font, of course, and (color) means color, etc. You can input font color the same way you input background color. The sizes run large, so you might want to preview them first. You can put in any face that you're computer recognizes. Remember to close it(/font), or else you won't be able to vary your text.
Now that you're good with the font styles, you can move on to actually typing stuff in.
But before that, type this:
(H1)
(P)
(UL)
(LI)
That is the very basics of what you need to start writing text, i.e., nothing would show up. You might try something like this:
(H1) Welcome to the next site! Here you will learn everything you need to know about inputting text and designing fonts.
(P)
(UL)
(LI)First, design a basic HTML page, which I showed in the previous site.(/p)
That is exactly what you have to do to get text up in a list. (h1) signifies the heading of a new list, (p) means new paragraph, and (ul) and (li) will give you bullet points on your list. If you don't want them then stop after (p). If you want something on a new line you need to open and close (p) as such:
(p)
(li)Now, you want to get the basics set up first, so type this:(/P)
(P)
see, now the text is onthe next line. . .
Now you're ready to move on to links. I'll use the homedome site for an example. They are pretty easy, and they look like this:
(a
href="http://www.angelfire/ego2/spyglass/homedome.html)
The Name Of The Link(/a)
The (a
href=" " indicates to the computer that you are setting up a link. Whatever appears before (/a) will be the name of the link. the (/a) of course, closes the link. That is an important step because if a link is never closed then the rest of the programming will function as a link instad if what it should be.
on your website, it will appear like this:
The Name Of The Link
It should appear as blue and underlined, but you can change that by going back up to where you typed in the font styles.
Type in something like this:
(BODY BGCOLOR="?", LINK="RED", VLINK="ORANGE")
Now when you view your website, the links (LINK) will appear red and the 'visited' links (VLINK)which are the links you've already clicked on, will appear orange. But just add the new (LINK. . .) stuff, don't retype (BODY BGCOLOR).
Another trick to learn is how to vary the size, alignment, color, and face of the text.
(body BGCOLOR="pink", link="red", vlink="orange")(FONT COLOR="indianred")(FONT SIZE="5")(FONT FACE="ARIAL")(/FONT)
(H1)(center)Welcome to the next site! Here you will learn everything you need to know about inputting text and designing fonts.(/center)
(P)
(UL)(font size="3")(font color="mediumslateblue")
(LI)First, design a basic HTML page, which I showed in the previous site.(/p)
The (CENTER) tells the text to center, but you have to close center (/CENTER) for everything to back to left (align left) or right (align right). To change the fonts, you simply type what you did in the beginning right before the text. To change it back again in following texts you just write up the original script (font =...) and place it before the text.
here is an example of what a completed page shoulf look like:
(HTML)
(HEAD)(TITLE)NAME OF SITE(/TITLE)(/HEAD)
(BODY BGCOLOR="PINK", LINK="RED", VLINK="ORANGE")
(FONT COLOR="BLUE")(FONT SIZE="2")(FONT FACE="ARIAL")(/FONT)
(H1)A HEADING
(P)
(UL)
(LI)(FONT COLOR="PURPLE")(FONT SIZE="2")(FONTSTYLE="ARIAL")SOME WORDS IN A LIST.
Voila! You have successfully created a website with text and links.
In case you haven't though, email me at the link below.
To continue learning how to program HTML images,etc., go back to the homedome site linked below.
Good luck with you page!
Click to go to Homedome
