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Comments
There are comments included within the HTML templates that are intended to help you customize the text with your own content. The comments appear as:
<!-- Comment text -->
Making text bold
To make text appear bold, use
<b> and </b> around the text. For example:
Make <b>this bold</b>will look like:
Make this bold
Making text italic
To make text appear italic, use
<i> and </i> around the text. For example:
Make <i>this italic</i>will look like:
Make this italic
Making text underlined
To make text appear underlined (without being an actual link), use
<u> and </u> around the text. For example:
Make <u>this underlined</u>will look like:
Make this underlined
Creating line breaks
There are two basic line breaks in HTML. Use
<br> to break to the next line or <p> to skip a line. For example:
1<br>2<p>3will look like:
1
23
Changing the size of text
To change 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. For example:
Make text <font size="+2">bigger</font> or <font size="-2">smaller</font>will look like:
Make text bigger or smaller
Changing the type of font
There are a few different fonts you can use, and 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>For example:
Make <font face="garamond">this font garamond</font>will look like:
Make this font garamond
Changing the font color
There are many different Web-safe colors that you can use in your template. View our HTML Color Codes Chart.
To make text appear in a certain color, use the color codes like this: <font color="#FF0000">. For example:
To set default font colors for the entire page, use color codes in theMake <font color="#FF0000">this font red</font>will look like:
Make this font red
<body> command. For example, if you want:
-
font = black
link = blue
'visited' link = red
'while being clicked' link = pink
<body text="#000000" link="#FFFF00" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#FF00CC">
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://.
Including a link
To include a link in your HTML template, use
<a href="URL"> and </a> around the text of the link. Be sure to include the entire URL, starting with http://. For example:
Make <a href="http://www.sparklist.com">this text link to http://www.sparklist.com</a>will look like:
Including a numbered or bulleted list
To include a list in your HTML template, use
<ol> and </ol> at the beginning and end of the list, and use <li> to create the individual lines. For example:
<ol>
<li>This is line one
<li>This is line two
</ol>will look like:
- This is line one
- This is line two
If you want to use a bulleted list instead of a numbered list, use
<ul>and</ul>instead of<ol>and</ol>.
If you desire more assistance, please utilize the wide variety of HTML resources on the Web (or HTML books and manuals).
