Step #1
Go to your "email", then click on "settings" on
the top bar, then click on "signature".
You
will see the box where your codes go.
After entering the codes, click on "done", then
"done" again.
Note: NEVER use the "Return/Enter" key
when typing in a URL! Just let it automatically
wrap around to the next line.
Make sure there is NOT a space in the URL.
Note: If you need to clean out a mess in
your sig box, use "Cmd" + "A", then "Delete".
You will also need to learn
CCP (Cut, Copy, Paste).
It is sooo simple to learn, and simple to use! You will avoid a lot
of typos with CCP.
A large percent of "Why won't it work?" is due
to typos.
The browsers are not very
forgiving of typos and bad code!
So many people post "I know I entered the
right code. Why won't it work???"
Well, my friend, if you do have it
right,
it will work.
Upon review, it is usually The TYPO
Gremlin Struck Again!
Once you use CCP a few times, you will wonder how
you ever got along without it!
Step #2
1. The very first tag you enter is the opening
HTML tag: <HTML>. Not even an space before
it!!!
And the very last entry is the closing
HTML
tag: </HTML>.
2. The second tag must be the opening
BODY tag:
<BODY>.
Every thing in your email sig is part of
the BODY.
The body tag can have several attributes.
The closing body tag: </BODY>, must go
just before the closing HTML tag!
NOTE: Only one set of HTML tags and one set of BODY tags to
any document !!!
Step #3
BODY Attributes
<HTML>
<BODY
background="http://URL of background image"
bgcolor="#000000" text="gold">
Or if you just want a solid color background:
<BODY bgcolor="???" text="???">
The font colors must be compatible with
the background.
Text and images and all the rest of everything
goes here...
</BODY>
</HTML>
But of course, You can use what ever background
your li'lle heart desires.
Note:
If you have trouble with a line in your
background below your text, try using
<noembed>
before the BODY BACKGROUND tag, and put
</noembed> right after the Body tag. .
Here we have learned to use "wallpaper" as the
"background", change the text color, have a
bgcolor - to fill in the blanks, so you don't
have that default gray box to type in.
Practice it a few times, sending email to
yourself, 'till you get the hang of it. Play
around with the font color, etc.
The Image Tag
The image tag, IMG which appears in the BODY is a link to where the image is stored.
You should also size the image by using the
height and width
attributes.
This helps the browser to load faster!
The code is:
<img
src="URL" height="??? width="???">
<img
src="https://members.tripod.com/~Cannonball2/gif-/
bud1.jpg" height="88" width="150">
Want a border to frame the image?
Just add: border="4" to the tag.
Adding music:
<embed src="http://URL of sound">
This will give a speaker icon to click on.
<bgsound src="URL of sound" loop="2">
With this tag, the song will start automatically.
You can have it loop as many times as you
want.
Note: You can only have ONE autostart song
tag in the sig box.
Additional songs will have to be "click on".
NOTE: Use only midis and wavs in email.
NOTE! Real Audio (rams) were NOT designed for email !!!
They were designed for Website
pages.
When used in email, With autostart they tend to
FREEZE UP the webtv box, and have to unplug the
unit to get out of it!
This is detrimental to the box!!!
You can make a lot of enemies freezing up
people's webtv box!!!
Also, when you try to use Real Audio, you are
actually STEALING expensive bandwidth!!!
They are designed to be ONLY played on the
Hosts Website! ( usually by clicking on )
A lot of fine Real Audio Host have had their site
shut down because of bandwidth theft to the
tune of several thousands of dollars per
month!
And you CANNOT transload Real Audio!
If you try to transload a ram, you are actually
just transloading a REFERENCE pointer that links to the LIVE STREAM HOST!
So this is the order for the code:
<HTML>
<noembed>
<BODY background="URL of choice" bgcolor="???"
text="???"> </noembed>
<img
src="URL of image 1" height="???" width="???">
<img
src="URL of image 2" height="???" width="???">
<img
src="URL of image 3" height="???" width="???">
other images, text, etc.
<embed src="http://URL of midi">
</BODY>
</HTML>
Before starting! Remember to always type
<HTML> on the very first line. Not even an
space before it!
Always close with </HTML> on the very last
line.
If you fail to do this procedure, your work will
only show up as text instead of a graphic.
You must write the URL exactly as it appears.
Lower case letters and Capitals must
match exactly!
This is one reason Cut, Copy, Paste is so
important!
Failure to copy this address exactly will result
in a little blank box on the screen.
Another reason you might get a blank box instead
of the image is:
Some hosts DONOT allow remote linking of some or
all files !!!
How do you find the URL of a graphic or
sound?
You can use the Search Engines to find images and sounds.
If the image is a clickon, while viewing the
image, hit "Go To", "Show current". That will
bring up the URL to Copy & Paste.
While viewing a webpage, if the sound is a
clickon to play, while it is playing hit "Go To"
& "Show Last". This will bring up the URL to Copy and Paste.
Note: it is best to upload images to your
Scrapbook when using them in your email.
How to use images from Webtv ScrapBook
See graphic on a webpage that you want the URL
for?
You can Validate the webpage to get
URLs or the code to see "How did they do that?"
Need to see the code of an email sig, or a post?
While viewing the page, hit "Send" (in the
upper right of the keyboard).
Address it to yourself. Now bring the curser down
into the "subject" line and delete what is
there.
Now move the curser down into the body area and
hit "Return/Enter" twice.
Now hold down "Alt" and hit "K",
Now hold down "Cmd" and hit"A", "X".
Now move curser up to "subject" line and hit
"Cmd" & "V".
Now scroll down and click on "Send".
If you followed there steps, when you read the
mail, you will see all the code.
That is called "Bouncing".
Although this works 99% of the time some e-mail
and or posts can not be bounced.!?!
Now that you know how to get URLs of images and
midis, you should learn how to
"Transload" them to your site so that you are not stealing bandwidth from others.
To Center The Graphics:
Here's how to type the tags to center a
graphic.
<CENTER>
<IMG
SRC="https://members.tripod.com/~Cannonball2/gif-2
/bud1.jpg" height="88" width="150">
</CENTER>
You can also align the image to the RIGHT:
<img align="right"
src="https://members.tripod.com/~Cannonball2/gif-2
/bud1.jpg" height="88" width="150">
Sizing The Graphics
This is the original size of the graphic. We are
going to learn how to change the size by writing
these HTML tags:
<IMG
SRC="https://members.tripod.com/~Cannonball2/gif-2
/bud1.jpg" height="44" width="75">
You can experiment and change the WIDTH & HEIGHT
numbers to whatever pleases you the most.
To make a Clickable Link
Use this command:
<a
href="URL of where you want to go">
Words to turn blue and click </a>
To have an image to click on, use this
command:
<a
href="URL of where you want to go">
<img
src="URL of gif"></a>
To make a clickable link for your email, use this
command:
<a
href="mailto:you@yourdomain"> words to
click</a>
To have an image to click on for email, use this
command:
<a
href="mailto:you@yourdomain">
<img
src="https://members.tripod.com/~Cannonball2/pageb
g-images/mail1.jpg"></a>
To center text, use this command:
<center> Text to be centered here.
</center>
To make bold print:
<b>Text</b>
To make italics: <i>Text</i>
To underline text: <u>Text</u>
To make a teletype look:
<tt>Text</tt>
For strikethrough: <s>Text</s>
Blackface: <blackface>
Text</blackface>
 To make a line indent: & n b s p
When you type it, do not have a space between the characters.
To break to the next line: <br>
To skip a line: <p>
To skip several lines add more <br>
To have a message appear exactly as you typed it,
use: <pre> at the start, and </pre> at
the end.
Note: The font tag attributes in the sig
box only effect the text that is in the
sig box.
To have font attributes effect the text in the
body of your email, you have to write your email
in HTML.
Summary:
Here is a summary of everything that you've
learned so far:
Where to put the HTML and BODY tags
Font colors for text
You can use the HEIGHT=
WIDTH= and <CENTER> </CENTER> ALIGN
tags in combination together to achieve the
desired results.
To make a clickable link.
To assign attributes to text.
1. To make background a solid color:
<body bgcolor="color code or name" other
body
attributes (if any) here>
2. To have graphic as background:
<noembed>
<body background="http://URL of gif" other
body
attributes (if any) here>
</noembed>
3. Use attribute text color="color code or name"
Use attribute bgcolor="color code or name"
4. To use an image:
<img src="http://URL of gif or jpg" (attributes
here: height & width)>
5. To align image: <center> image
</center>
and attributes align="right", align="center",
(the default is aligned left)
6. To make a link:
<a href="http://URL of where to go">Text or
Image to click on.</a>
7. To make a song play automatically:
<embed src="http://url of song"
autostart="true" loop="2">
8. To have a speaker to click on to play
song:
<embed src="http://URL of song">
9. To make an email link:
<a href="mailto:Your addy">
Text or image
to click</a>
10. Text styles & line breaks.
Now PRACTICE your codes on your email page
and send it to yourself.
This will let you get familiar with the codes
and also let you work out your bugs.