For those of you new to webtv I hope this will help. This is only an example to get you started. There are other ways and many other codes you can add as you become more familiar with html and webtv.
This is it:
<html>
<body background="https://members.tripod.com/ladiv/bkgr/abg14.gif" text="#000000">
<bgsound src="https://members.tripod.com/~dvoe77/mid/big.mid" autostart="true" loop="infinite">
<font size="+3">
<center>
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/center>
<br><br><br>
<p>
<center>
<img src="https://members.tripod.com/ladiv/graph_w/weblogo.gif"width=104 height=85>
</center>
</font>
</body>
</html>
You can see you have a recessed angel background with a black lettered signature, and an image. By having the text color added to the body tag it will change the color of your text. You can use just a color for your background rather than an image which will end in either gif or jpg. To do that use this instead of the body background,
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#003333">
This will give you a black background with dark green lettered text. You can make it what ever colors you would like.
Here is a color guide to help you pick colors:
COLOR GUIDE
The sound started as soon as you got to this page. This is just how it will work with your email.
There is a problem right now with the email sigs when you post in a newsgroup. The lower half of your email will have a dark ugly grey box rather than your background. To help with that you will need to add something to your html code. So after your
<body bgcolor tag you need to put this:
<table bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff"><tr><td>
This needs to be the same as your body colors you used just above it.
Another problem that happens when you put this table tag in is that when you type your message a dark grey box appears where you are typing your message. This makes it very hard to read what you are typing. To make the box white so you can read it you will need to add somthing to your html. After you have entered your body background tag you need to add bgcolor="white" or you can just type the color number in which would be bgcolor="#FFFFFF". You will need to do this to both the body background or body bgcolor and table background or table bgcolor tags.
You will need to close these tags before you close your body and html tags like this:
</td></tr></table>
Remember that the last entered is the first closed. In other words close tags from last to first. A close tag will always have the backslash before it:
</html>
If you want to use a background image rather than a color then you need to use the same background image that you used with the body background tag and use the same text color, like this:
<table background="https://members.tripod.com/ladiv/bkgr/abg14.gif" text="#000000">
This matches the same info you have above in the body background tag.
Here is a complete example of the code to use with a bgcolor tag in your email sig box:
<html>
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<table bgcolor="#000000" text="#003333" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr><td>
<bgsound src="https://members.tripod.com/dvoe77/mid/big.mid" autostart="true" loop="infinite">
<center>
<br><br><br>
<img src="https://members.tripod.com/ladiv/graph_w/weblogo.gif" width=104 height=85>
</center>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>
<br>
are break tags. They are used to give you vertical space. The
<p>
tag is a paragraph tag and you cannot use two of these together. In other words you can't have this:
<p>
<p>
You can have this:
<p>
<br>
<p>
With the sound tag you can use embed instead of bgsound. The embed tag will show a speaker on your page that can be clicked on to get the sound. Also, the loop part of the sound tag can be limited to just repeat once or twice or how ever many times you want it to. With infinite it will just keep repeating over and over without stopping. To limit the loop part just put a number instead of the word infinite, like this:
<bgsound src="https://members.tripod.com/dvoe77/mid/big.mid" autostart="true" loop="2">
This will have the song repeat twice and then stop.
To use the embed tag so that a speaker is on your page and the music does not start automatically when your email is clicked on, do this instead of the bgsound tag:
<embed src="https://members.tripod.com/dvoe77/mid/ldate.mid">
You will get this then: