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Basic HTML
  Need some help with html? Want to know how people do this or this, or maybe even this in their posts? Or perhaps how they make a link to email someone? This page will give you the basics of html. If you want to know more, there is a short list of people here who will be happy to help.

Bold, Italic and Underline:

To make your text bold, place <b> before your text and </b> after it.
e.g. <b>BOLD</b> = BOLD

To italicise your text, place <i> before and </i> after.
e.g. <i>ITALIC</i> = ITALIC

To underline your text, place <u> before and </u> after.
e.g. <u>UNDERLINED</u> = UNDERLINED

You can, of course, italicise and underline and make your text bold (or just any two of those), in which case you include all three sets of tags, in any order.
e.g. <b><i><u>CODED TEXT</u></b></i> = CODED TEXT

Specialist Sizing:

To change the size of your text, either:

  • specify the size you wish by placing <font size="*"> before and </font> after, where * is the point size.
    e.g. <font size="3">larger</font> = larger

  • change the size relative to the default size by placing <font size="#*"> before and </font> after, where # is + or - and * is 1 through to 7.
    e.g. <font size="+1">plus one</font> = plus one

  • use a heading tag: put <h*> before your text and </h*> after it, where * is a number between 1 (largest) to 6 (smallest).
    e.g. <h3>larger</h3> =

    larger

Coloring your words:

Put <font color="**"> before the text and </font> after, where ** is either the name of the color or the hexadecimal code.
e.g. <font color="green">green</font> = green
e.g. <font color="#9400D3">a nice dark purple color</font> = a nice dark purple color

NB: The American spelling "color" must be used for this coding.

Making links:

To link to a webpage place <a href="**"> before the text and </a> after it, where ** is the web address for the page.
e.g. I want to <a href="http://www.grey-tower.net/index.html">go</a> to a good page = I want to go to a good page

To create an email link place <a href="mailto:**"> before the text and </a> after it, where ** is the person's email address.
e.g. I want to <a href="mailto:tjselwyn@yahoo.co.uk">email</a> Kaihan Asha'man = I want to email Tatham Asha'man

Further Reference:

Good sites for HTML reference are:

  • Davesite.com
    Interactive mini lessons on how to code in HTML (really easy, good reference); practice while you learn!

Teachers in the Tower:

A number of members of the Grey Tower are proficient in HTML and are able to teach or troubleshoot. Those who have volunteered as "resident teachers" are: