| Effect | Tag | Usage Tips |
| Bold | <b> Text
</b> | Using Bold text usually signifies something of importance when its among text
that isn`t bold. |
| Italic | <i> Text </i> | Italic text generally implies emphasis on a
word. For example "That man is crazy!" Whole pages in italics tend
to look a little cheesy. |
| Underline | <u> Text
</u> | Underlined text alsoimplies emphasis on a word. However, it used much
less than italic text. |
| <marquee> Text </marquee> | Using the marquee draws
attention to something fast. Use it sparingly since a page full of scrolling marquees can
tend to get annoying. |
| <![CDATA[<MARQUEE
DIRECTION=RIGHT BEHAVIOR=SCROLL SCROLLAMOUNT=10
SCROLLDELAY=200> <img src="David.gif" width=100
height=60></MARQUEE>]]> | Use the marquee tag the same way that you would
with words. Except use the img tag to put your picture there instead of
words. <blink> to see how to use the img tag. Here's an example on the
left hand side for scrolling images. |
| The following text effects
have a different kind of HTML tag than the ones above. The words you want the effects
to apply to have to be included within a <font> </font>tag. For example, to
change to a different font type the tag would look like this: <font face = "Times New Roman">.
See the difference in the font?
</font>
More than one of these
tags can be used at a time. If you wanted to change the font size and type of some text the
tag would look like this: <font
face = "Times New Roman" size = "4"> This text is BIG! </font> On to the tags. =) |
| Fonts | <font face = "insert font name
here"></font>
Some widely used internet fonts
are: Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans
MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, TrebuchetMS,
Verdana | Keep in mind that not everybody has the same fonts and if you use a font that
somebody doesn`t have, their browser will default to a pre-determined font and the effect
you wanted might be lost. |
| COLORS | <font color = "#_ _ _ _ _
_"> </font> *Font colors are named with hex numbers. Fill in the #_ _ _ _ _ _ with a
number from the color chart which is linked at the bottom. | Some font colors can be
named simply by stating the color. For example <font face = "purple">
Purple Text </font>. However the color names can
vary widely. Using the hex method is much safer. |
| Size | <font size = "#"> </font>
Inserting any of the
numbers below in place of the # in the tag above will produce that size font.
1234567 | Bigger font sizes usually imply importance. Most often sizes 2 and 3 are
regular text, 4 and 5 are used for subheaders, and 6 and 7 are used as
headers. |
| Columns | Columns are a little more complex than the font tags above as
they require the use of tables. Columns are generally tables with no rows. To create
columns, use the following HTML code in the below right box which generates the table
in the below left box: |
<table>
<tr>
<td>Text in the first
Column</td>
<td>Text in the second
Column</td>
</tr>
</table> | | Text in the first Column | Text in the second
Column |
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