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How to make links in HTML; Chap 1

I realize that I left this out in my basic tags post so I figured that I might as well do it now. There are 2 different links that you can make, one is leading to a different website and the other is linking to a file or page within your website. If you want to cheat in Dreamweaver, select the text and you will see boxes on the bottom of the screen with a folder icon next to it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Styling your page in DW; Chap 1

There are several things you need to do in order to make your page look presentable but I will only show you how to add color to the pages for the time time being due to the fact that this is only my 3rd real HTML tutorial.
This post will teach you how to change the background color of the page, the default text color for the page, default link color, and the default “clicked on” link color. If you want to cheat, you can also hit the page properties in DW. Read the rest of this entry »

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How to format text in HTML; Chap 1

In this post, I will be going over basic text formatting such as italics, bold, size, underlining and alignment. This will help with making your website more presentable, well in my opinion anyway.

1. Basic Alignment – This tag lets you place the text, or any object on your page, on either side of the page or any place on the page. If you want to place the text on the left side of the page use this tag beginning tag: <div align=”left”>This is on the left. This time you should put in the quotes around left. This is the ending tag: </div>. For any alignment i,e. right, center, just replace the “left” with “right” or “center” like so: <div align=”center”>. Read the rest of this entry »

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Basic HTML Tags; Chap 1

HTML is a code for creating web pages. A lot of basic sites are made with HTML coding because, well, it’s basic. This blog that I’m writing right now is HTML coded also. Although I did not make it all by my self, blogger.com uses HTML for all of their users’ blogs. HTML stands for “Hyper-text markup language” and is used for websites all over the world. Over the next few blog entries I will be teaching you the basics to HTML coding. Read the rest of this entry »

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