through ) the lower the number the larger the font, when you use the tag, the higher the number the larger the font, so that font size=1 is the smallest, and font size=6 is much larger. Don't get confused!
Even if you don't specify a font for your Web page text, your browser will use Times New Roman by default. Other defaults are grey for background color, black for text, red for links and blue for "visited" links.
I do use the "font" tags regularly. Suppose you want to use the "Arial" font for a portion of your text; your code would look like this:
, with your text closed by the tag.
Suppose you want your font to be roughly 10 pts (font size="2") (which is the basic font size on the majority of Web sites; 8 pts (font size="1") is too small and 12 pts (font size="3") is sometimes considered too big). You could use the following:
, closed by the tag.
Now let's put them together: (Put your text here)
You only need to put the
tag in ONCE if you are closing any tags beginning with .Colors on your Web page
Before I discuss font color changes in any part of your text or your headlines, first I need to talk about colors on your page, whether text colors or background colors.
When putting a color on your Web page, ALWAYS use the symbols "#rrggbb", with rrggbb being code numbers or letters that define the HTML standard color code for that color. NEVER use spaces between any characters in these codes! Some common color codes are:
white=ffffff
black=000000
red=ff0000
blue=0000ff
green=00ff00
See page 33 of your text for more color codes, as well as the Barebones Guide to HTML here
Define the colors on your Web page
On your Web page, right after the tag and right before the
tag is the place you want to define the background color (or, if you prefer, a background image, but that comes later), text color, link colors that you must have to make your Web page more viewable.Use this tag:
Note: "link" is your link color, unless it is a "visited" link. Visitied links are "vlinks"; this means that if you have visited a link that is on the Web page, that link will have a different color than the "unvisited" link.
Suppose you want your background color white, your text black, you link color red and your visited link color blue.
The beginning of your HTML code should be something like this:
Your Web Page Title
Always skip a line between the
tag and the tag. In fact if you use the or tags, you don't even need the tag! (I use both because it's a habit).Note: You won't close the
(or "body bgcolor") tag with until the END of your html page code!Change the font colors, sizes, types on your Web page
Having standardized your text color in your Web page body to black, supposing you want to use a different color (red) in your headline, as well as the "Times New Roman" font type and the font size of "5" for 18 pts. Your tag will be this:
Your Headline
and will look like this:
Your Headline
NOTE: Remember to put spaces in between various font attributes (font face, font color, font size)!
Suppose you want to put linebreaks in your headline if it's rather long (this allows you to control where the headline breaks to a new line):
Your
Headline
It will look like this:
Your
Headline
Suppose you want to change one of the headline word's font color to blue (say the middle word):
Your
Longer
Headline
It will look like this:
Your
Longer
Headline
Now let's say you want your centered headline to read "Why my favorite color is red", making the word "red" coded "#ff0000" with the other words coded "#0000ff" for blue, and making three lines, font type(face) "Arial", sized 18 pts (font size=5), and centered. It would look like this:
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