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HTML Tips
You may notice that some club's sites use links
and various text formating.
This is done using what are called HTML tags. HTML is the computer language
used to make web pages. When you create your club's Web pages, you can insert
simple tags to make text appear or function diffently. For example, let's say
you want to italicize the name of a book If you type this when creating your
Web page:
<i>War and Peace</i>
It would appear to viewers of your site like this:
War and Peace
As you can probably guess, <i> is the tag for italics. All you have to
do to use it is "open" the tag just before the text you want to italicize
(<i>) and "close" it after the text you want italicized (</i>).
Here are two more tags:
Typing <b>War and Peace</b> would create War and Peace
Typing <u>War and Peace</u> would create War and Peace
Font Colors and Sizes
In addition to the italic, bold, and underline tags, there is also something
called the font tag, which you can do a couple of different things with. Check
out these examples:
Typing <font size="5">Big Text</font> would create
Big Text
Typing <font color="purple">Purple Text<font> would
create Purple Text
Typing <font color="purple" size="5">Big
Purple Text<font>would create Big
Purple Text
You can enter any font size between 1 and 7, but keep in that "3"
is the normal size-- anything below that will be smaller than normal text. As
for color, you can type in just about anything-- red, green, blue, gray, etc.
Links
Anywhere you go on the Web, there are links, usually underlined,
that you can click to go to another page. To create your own, just follow this
format:
<a href="the page you are linking to">The text that will
appear</a>
For example, typing this:
<a href="http://www.fordham.edu">Fordham University</a>
would create this link:
Fordham University
Just remember to type the whole link, just like it appears in your browser
(i.e. including "http://").
Need More Help?
There is no shortage of HTML tutorials around, but one good one is at WebMonkey.
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