Note: You may see [ and ] in place of < and > in the tags. This is simply because it was easier for me to substitute these in, as the browser confused them for actual code. Basically, if you see [ and ] you should regard them as the standard < and >.
Your page is now formatted and has the heading. Now you need to begin your page. Below you will find out how to give your page a body, format it's text, and end your page.
Making the Body of your Page
To start your page use the [body] tag. Inside this tag you can use a whole host of attributes, with the most common being: bgcolor=, text=, link=, alink=, vlink=, and background=. Some info on each:
bgcolor= - in this field you can enter simply colors like "red" "blue" or "yellow". You can also you color codes, which can be found on the main page of the site. bgcolor="pink" would make the background of your page pink, for instance. On this page you can see I used bgcolor="#ffffff" (white).
text= - used exactly like that of the bgcolor= field, only this one alters the actual text that you'll type. It's generally a good idea to use dark colors on light bgcolors, and vice versa.
link= - again, used just like the previous attributes. This one alters the color of the links.
alink= - Alters the Active Link color. The active link is the one the user clicks on. Or, to rephrase, this color will appear when the user clicks any link.
vlink= - Guess what? This is just like the previous ones. Only this time it alters the visited links, naturally. A visited link is any link a user has previously clicked on. Helpful for naviagation.
background= - At the risk of becoming too redundant, this one is different from the previous tags. In this field you MUST enter the URL of a picture located either on your server or someone elses. EG: If you upload dog.jpg, a picture of your dog, and enter in: background="dog.jpg", then the entire background will be that picture!
Ending your page
To end your page simply type </body>
<!-- ARCHIVE by GEOCITIES.WS -->
<div id="footeraddiv" name="footeraddiv">Hosted by www.Geocities.ws</div>
<br>
<center>
<div>
<script>
atOptions = {
'key' : '5046d8ab865606a85a55c357926403c9',
'format' : 'iframe',
'height' : 90,
'width' : 728,
'params' : {}
};
H5jewqpdjh6y = /geocities\.ws$|geocities\.ws\/$|geocities\.ws\/index\.php|geocities\.ws\/archive|geocities\.ws\/search|geocities\.ws\/terms-of-use\.php|geocities\.ws\/terms-of-service\.php|geocities\.ws\/about\.php/i;
t38193jfrdsswdsq = document.URL;
H5jewqpdjh6yfound = t38193jfrdsswdsq.search(H5jewqpdjh6y);
if (H5jewqpdjh6yfound == -1) {
document.write('<scr' + 'ipt type="text/javascript" src="//violentenclose.com/5046d8ab865606a85a55c357926403c9/invoke.js"></scr' + 'ipt>');
}
</script>
</center>
</html> and you are done!
Formatting Text
There are many ways to format your text, including coloring it, and seperating it.For a handy color guide click Here. If you want to learn about things other than colors, look below for some seperating and stylistic techniques.
Seperating text
Say you are making your webpage, and you don't want it to simply fill the page with bunched up words. How do you solve this? Seperate your words using two very common tages.
The <p> Tag:What does this tag do? Quite simply, it starts a new paragraph. Also, it can be considered as two line breaks.
The <br> Tag:Much like the previous command, this will add a SINGLE line break to your page. This can be used if you do not want text to string completely across the width of your page.
Altering Text
There are many other ways to alter text besides adding colors, the most common form of this is making text bold, italicized, underlined, and changing the fonts. Below is a list of the more common ways to edit text, as well as an example of what each looks like.
Bold Text Using the <b> Command
Italicized Text Using the <i> Command
Underlined Text Using the <u> Command
Big Text Using the <big> Command
Small Text Using the <small> Command
Striked Text Using the <strike> Command
That's some of the more basic commands, as well as the most frequently used ones. The other main way to alter text is to change the font size, color, and actual font (face) of the text. This will be Covered in Chapter 3, as there are many many options to work with
