Basic HTML for the Beginner!

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Basic HTML for the Beginner!

Ever wonder how people center text, or make a link with HTML? Well it's really very simple!

All you have to remember about these tags, is that there is an opening tag (ex = <*center>), and a closing tag (ex = ). I have to put in asterisks so that you can see the tags, so when you do them for real, TAKE OUT THE *'s!!! And also, it's very important to remember the CLOSING tag. Other wise EVERYTHING else is affected by that one little tag!

<*center> = Center text

<*P> = Make a new paragraph

<*br> = Line break (two of these is a new paragraph)

<*i> = Italic text

<*b> = bold text

<*u> = Underline text

Now, it's a little more difficult to make a link, but you'll easily understand.

The opening tag is <*a href="PUT URL HERE">. You put the address, like www.teenfx.com, in the quotation marks. The closing tag is <*/a>. So if you want to make a link, it would look like this:

<*a href="http://www.teenfx.com">Click Here for TeenFX!!<*/a>

See how easy that was? You can also put an image in place of Click Here for TeenFX!! to make an image link!

Images are more difficult still. If you want to put up an image, you have to have a URL to use. (This means if you have a pic saved to your computer, you can't just stick it up.) You have to have a site to HOST the image. (If you have an account like Geocities or Angelfire, you can upload or FTP the image.) An image URL will look like this:

http://antwrp. gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg

-=NOTE=- If you use an image hosted by another site, CHECK WITH THE OWNER FIRST. If you just stick it up, you're stealing bandwidth from them (which makes their site run slower.)

Anyway, if you've got a URL handy, all you do for an image is this:

<*img src="URL HERE">

You don't need a closing tag. There are many things you can do to an image (such as size, borders, roll over messages) but I won't get into it here.

I hope that you've learned how to do a few things with this HTML! Remember to take out the *'s, and always put a closing tag! -=NOTE=- TeenFX doesn't normally allow HTML, so you can't use it here. :(

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	Elanor	26-Jul-02

applauds well done Zhahira

	Monique	21-Jul-02

say wha??

	pixelk	20-Jul-02

You should ask if they will let you take a screen s of it and upload it with your article. That way you won't have to compromise the html. Ehehe, I was totally thinking about writing this myself.

	_ Zhahira _	19-Jul-02

Well, Teenfx just hates HTML!

	_ Zhahira _	19-Jul-02

Sorry, a closing tag is like , ,