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HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is pretty simple once you get the hang of it, but if you're a newbie, then prepare for a rough ride. Here are just some basic HTML though, it will be able how to set the weight of your text, how to make links, pictures. etc. Setting the weight of your text: <b>Bold</b> <i>Italic</i> <u>Underline</u> Links: <a href="http://www.link.com">Link</a> Placing images: <img src="http://www.imagelink.com"> For images, you will not need an </img> tag like the rest of the HTML tags. Placing images with links: <a href="http://www.link.com"><img src="http://www.imagelink.com" border="0"></a> You will need an </a> tag for this, it will tell the browser to only place the link in the picture, and not anything else around it. The 'border="0"' part, will tell the browser to not put a border around the picture, you may replace the zero with a number like 1 or 5, depending on how big you want your border to be. Tables: <table><tr><td> </table></tr></td> If you were wondering how we placed the pictures for VN's layout where we wanted them to be, well it's pretty simple, we used tables. <table> is the start of a table itself, you can set the cellpadding, cellspacing, border, align, width and height for it. Remeber that all of your cells should be within the table and /table tag, or else the browser will think that they're a part of another table. <td> is table data, they're an individual cell in a table row. <tr> a table row, they should contain at least a data cell. Here's an example of a table:
DIVs: DIVs are pretty much like tables, they are not as hard to code as tables though, and you can place them anywhere on your website. The bad thing about DIVs is that they overlap each other, and everything else on your page - so I would not recommend you to use one for your disclaimer or to place a picture in your contents. <div style="position: absolute; width: 100px; top: 100px; height: 100px"> content </div> -- this is the tag for a simple DIV layer. Edit the 100's to the pixel that you wanted. Basic coding for a HTML page: For more HTML help, you can go to Lissa Explains. |
