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Bold Text

Use <b> and </b> around the text.

Example:

 <b>this bold</b>

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Italic Text

Use <i> and </i> around the text.

Example: <i>this italic</i>

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Underline Text (not indicating a link)

<u> and </u> around the text

Example: <u>this italic</u>

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Creating line breaks

Use <br> to break to the next line or <p> to skip a line.

Example:  1<br>2<p>3

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Changing the size of text

Use <font size="+1"> to look bigger, or <font size="-1"> to look smaller. End with </font>. You can also change the number value if you want to.

Example: <font size="+2">bigger</font> or <font size="-2">smaller</font>

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Changing the type of font

There is a limited number of fonts that can be used.  The most common are:

Times New Roman: (this is the default for all browsers)

Arial or Helvetica: use <font face="arial, helvetica"> and </font>

Verdana: use <font face="verdana"> and </font>

Garamond: use <font face="garamond"> and </font>

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Changing the font color

http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/Color_Charts

When you're adding a color to your Web page with HTML, sometimes you can just type in the name of the color. But more often than not, you'll need to use what's called the hex code.

Click here for a hex code color chart.

To make text appear in a certain color, use the hex color codes like this: <font color="#FF0000">.

Example: <font color="#FF0000">this font red</font>

To set default font colors for the entire page, use color codes in the <body> command. For e

Example, if you want font = black, link = blue, 'visited' link = red, 'while being clicked' link = pink

Use: <body text="#000000" link="#FFFF00" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#FF00CC">

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Changing the background color

Use bgcolor="#(insert desired hex code"

Example, if you want a red background, you would use this code: bgcolor="#FF0000"

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Including a graphic

To include a graphic in your HTML template, use <img src="URL">. (Be sure to include the entire URL of the graphic, starting with http://.)

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To make a clickable link

Use <a href="URL"> and </a> around the text of the link. (Be sure to include the entire URL, starting with http://.)

Example:  Make <a href="http://www.lyris.com">this text link to http://www.lyris.com</a>

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To make a numbered or bulleted list

Use <ol> and </ol> at the beginning and end of the list, and use <li> to create the individual lines.

Example:

<ol>

<li>This is line one

<li>This is line two

</ol>

will look like:

 1.        This is line one

 2.        This is line two

(For a bulleted list, use <ul> and </ul> instead of <ol> and </ol>.)