Text Tips

When you are doing your page you will be putting text in. You will want to tell the page what font you want to use. If you do not, it goes to the default font. On each page where I have text I insert this code to tell it: <font face="Arial Narrow" size="3">Text</font> We do have to close the font tag.

If you use one of the fancy fonts available, remember that if someone does not have that font on their system, they will be viewing the page with their default font and it may be radically different from how you want them to see your page. When I learned that I changed all my pages to a common font, Arial Narrow.

Each font has a specific name and we tell the computer what the name is: <center><font face="Arial Narrow" size="3">I like using Arial Narrow</font></center> Other tags to make your text look different.

Italics Code: <i>text</i> Bold Code: <b>text</b> Underline Code: <u>text</u> If you wanted to use all of these your code would now look like: <center><font face="Arial Narrow" size="3"><i><b><u>text</u></b></i></font></center> We have now told the computer everything we want it to do here. We told it to center the text, that we want Arial Narrow, we want size 3, it will be in italics, bold text, and it will be underlined.

All html tags must be closed in the order you opened them. Last becomes first when closing. <center><font face="Arial Narrow" size="3"><i>text</i></font></center> This is true of all html tags. If you do not close them out in the proper order you will get what they call 'nesting errors'.

Using Colors

You can change the look of your page by changing colors of text.

Color Tags
<bgcolor="#647080"> One important thing to remember is the "quotes" and the # must always go in front of the 6 digit number.
If you want to change color for a line or a specific word the code would look like: <font face="Arial Narrow" size="3" color="#cccccc">Text</font> When you do a webpage all the colors are specified for the entire page in the opening part of a page.
The above code is if you want to change colors for a word or sentence then when the font tag is closed it will revert back to the original color.

There are a few other tips here when using text. This is for making spaces on your page.
<br> I am sure you have seen this. This tag leaves one space down.
If I want to go for a bigger gap, like in between graphics I would leave maybe 5 like this... <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> It depends on the look of the page. Or how I want it to look.
It does not need to be closed.

Blockquote is another spacer I use often... <blockquote><font face="Arial Narrow" size="3">Text</font></blockquote> This will go over to the left but not as far as the edge. If I am making a list Of things or links I will use blockquote. You do have to close the tag out, just like the <center></center>tag. If you want to leave some space between images or text horizontally, you will have to put in<xmp>  for each space. A larger space:       Sometimes using 15 or 20. Just hitting the space bar will not work.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to email me at :
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