Text Codes

Effect

Tag

Usage Tips

Bold

Text

Using Bold text usually signifies something of importance when its among text that isn`t bold.

Italic

Text

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

Text

Underlined text also implies emphasis on a word. However, it used much less than italic text.

Scrolling

Using the marquee draws attention to something fast. Use it sparingly since a page full of scrolling marquees can tend to get annoying.

Blinking

The same thing applies to blinking text that applies to scrolling marquees. Fine in moderation, annoying in excess. Also, the <blink> tag only works in Netscape. See the link at the bottom of the page to create the blinking effect in Internet Explorer.

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 tag. For example, to change to a different font type the tag would look like this:

. See the difference in the 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:

This text is BIG! On to the tags. =)

Fonts

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 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 Purple Text . However the color names can vary widely. Using the hex method is much safer.

Size

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