For those looking to learn how to create your own website, spice up one you might already have, or whatever, I thought I would start posting a little bit about HTML. To start with, of course, we have the basics. The basic HTML page format is the following:
<html>
<body>
</body>
</html>
There is, of course, a "head" tag that goes in there as well, but it isn't really needed for the basics. All this does is begins the html formatting, and the body is where all of your text and tags will go. Always remember that when you have an opening tag, you have to have a closing one too. A closing tag always has a "/" before the tag.
Breaks:
In order to put spaces between any lines, most often you would use the tag <br>, though sometimes it can be typed as <br /> because there is no closing for this tag, so that closes it.
Headings:
There are 6 different heading types. In order to use them you use the <h1> text</h1> tags. The tags are <h1>, <h2>, <h3>..., etc to <h6>. As the numbers get higher, the font size of the heading gets smaller.
Note: Gather does not support the heading functions, so they will not work in any articles.
Paragraphs:
Paragraphs, as I'm sure everyone's aware, are units that seperate blocks of text. In HTML, the paragraph tag is simply <p>type your paragraph here</p>.
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Are you eventually going to get into Cascading Style Sheets? That's where I could use some help.
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FYI, Headings are not supported on Gather. In the article editor they will appear correct, but the formatting is stripped once you publish.
Great work, a nice way to teach indeed...
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