simple HTML

To maximize your BLOG enjoyment, larning a little HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is nice.
To practice:

  • Open up a simple, no-brain text editor like Notepad and type this:
    <B>This is bold text</B> and <I>This is italic text</I> and <U>This is underlined text</U>
     
     
  • Save the text file, giving it a name ending with .html. For example: test.html
    (You can also call it test.htm)
  • Then click on the saved file and your browser will display it like so:
    This is bold text and This is italic text and This is underlined text
     
     
  • Continue typing text in that test.html file, like so:
    <TABLE><TD>
    <BR>This is a table, starting with TD meaning Table Data.
    <BR>Tables have rows and columns.
    <BR>We can put something (like an picture) in the "next" column.
    </TD><TD>
    <IMG SRC = "http://www.gummy-stuff/org/NCL-gem.jpg">
    </TD> </TABLE>
    Note that </TD> ends the data and </TABLE> ends the table.
    Note, too, that http://www.gummy-stuff/org/NCL-gem.jpg is the URL of a picture on the Internet.  
     
  • Now save the test.html file and open it with your browser. It'll look like this:
    This is bold text and This is italic text and This is underlined text

    This is a table, starting with TD meaning Table Data.
    Tables have rows and columns.
    We can put something (like an picture) in the "next" column.

  • To add color to the table, you can change
    <TABLE><TD>
    to
    <TABLE BGCOLOR="cyan"><TD>
    Then the your test.html file will look like this:
    This is bold text and This is italic text and This is underlined text

    This is a table, starting with TD meaning Table Data.
    Tables have rows and columns.
    We can put something (like an picture) in the "next" column.
Note:
There's more (sexier) stuff here