Basic • Font Colors • Size • Styles + Effects • Marquee • Backgrounds • Images • Sound • How-2-Make-Linkz • Body Tags • Transitions




Basic

To make any of this WORK the first words in your sig box must be: <html>. Anything else that you type before this tag will be understood as regular text, and the HTML codes wont work.

A good place to practice HTML while you're first learning is in my Word Processor ,here you can practice all the HTML you want. click here.

Colors

Colors can be anything you want, you can even use numbers or whatever! they each give a diff effect like

<font color=colorname>

This is very simple to do and you should have no problem with this at all.

Font Size

Change the size of the font with the HTML tag

<font size=#>, where you would replace the "#" with a number -2 through 7. This is what the sizes look like:

Size -2
Size 1
Size 2
Size 3
Size 4
Size 5
Size 6
Size 7

Using a number larger than 7 will make the size 7.

Font Styles and Effects

There are different font styles you can use, to make the text italic, strikethrough, bold, blackface (double-bold), and underlined. The codes are <i>, <s>, <b>, <blackface>, and <u>. When you want to stop using the style, type the same code, but with a / before the text in the code, for instance </i>. Some examples:

Italics Strikethrough Bold Blackface Underline

There are several font effects attributes available using WebTV. They are shadow, emboss, and relief. These effects attributes are entered within the <font> tag, for example <font effect=shadow>. Examples:

Shadow Emboss Relief

Marquee

You will notice the marquees showned here are very slooowwwwwwwwww . That's because I have more than one all close together. Put them in seperate places and the will be quicker.

To make text scroll across the screen, use the <marquee> tag. The basic HTML tag is:

<marquee>This is a marquee!</marquee>

which makes this happen:

This is a marquee!

You can change the font color and size using the font color and size tags, explained above, just make sure you change these attributes before the opening <marquee> tag!

You can change the background color of the marquee text by adding the attribute bgcolor=colorname just before the closing tag in the opening <marquee> tag (leaving a blank space after the word "marquee" in the tag). Here's the same marquee with a gray background:

This is a marquee!

You can also make the marquee smaller, and center it, by using the attribute

width=#, this is a marquee at 33, centered:

This is a marquee!

You can change the behavior of the marquee, specifying direction= (right or left), and behavior= (slide, alternate). Remember, all of these attributes are typed in just before the closing bracket on the opening marquee tag, separated by a single space. Some examples:

direction=right
This is a marquee!
behavior=slide
This is a marquee!
behavior=slide direction=right
This is a marquee!
behavior=alternate
This is a marquee!
scrollamount=#
This is marquee!
scrollamount=# scrolldelay=#
This is marquee!

Understand??? Remember, you add this attributes within the first tag like this

<marquee xxxx=xxxx>YOUR TEXT</marquee>

xxxx where you put in one of the attributes listed above ok??

Background Color in E-mail

To make your background a single color there are two ways, the first way is by this HTML code.

<body bgcolor=colorname>

or the second way is <body: gradcolor=colorname>

change "colorname" to any color you want.

Images in E-mail

To put an image in your sig, do this HTML code

<img src="http://URL">

to change the height or width of any image add this height=# and width=# change # with any number you want!!=Oş

this is how it would look like

<img src="http://URL" height=# width#>

EXAMPLES HEIGHT: This is height=65

EXAMPLES WIDTH: this is width=200

EXAMPLES HEIGHT & WIDTH: This is Height at 70 and Width at 150.

Do ya understand??? click Here To see the original heart.gif

Full Mail Background

To put a background on your e-mail, do this!!

<body background="http://URL">

and thats it, you can make ANY image your background! but remember when doing this code to put the : colon or else it won't work!! Note: when making a homepage DO NOT use a colon because it wont show the background to PC users only WebTV user.

Sounds in E-Mail

This is the HTML code to put in your e-mail

<bgsound src="http://URL">.

The sound will play automactically. You can now use any type of file in background sound that you can hear with the WebTV. like RA, RAM, RPM, MIDI, WAV, AU, AIFF, SWA, MPEG Audio, SND, and MOD.

This will make a clickable speaker appear.

<embed src="http://URL">

EXAMPLE:

You can loop any sound file you want, expect SWA and any type of Real Audio. by adding this

loop=#

replace # with a number of times you want it to repeat.

To make it never stop, do this

loop=true

in other words, it looks like this

<bgsound src="URL" loop=#>

or

<bgsound src="URL" loop=true>

Getting the URL of music that you found with a clickable link on a page like my Music Page is EASY!! . Click on the link, then hit GOTO on your keyboard, and then SHOW LAST. And Thats it!

You can also make an audioscope

to put on your email, here, make one!! click on that link.

Linkz

Okay, this is the HTML code to make a regular link

<a href="URL_OF_LINK">Your Text</a>

Pretty simply right???

Okay this is how you make a Clickable image

<a href="URL_OF_LINK"><img src="URL_TO_IMAGE"></a>

And thats it, this isn't that hard at all?? Once you practice it, this becomes very easy, i SWEAR, it just takes patience.

Body Tags

These are body tags that work in your e-mail.

nooptions This Tag disables the Option of pressing any of the "Options" such as your GoTo key, Info, Save, Send, Recent and options

nologo You know that little clear WebTV logo thats shows up on a page when you haven't touched the keyboard?? well this takes it out.

logo="URL_OF_IMAGE" Okay this shows a little image on the Recent Key, so When you press the Recent key on your keyboard, you'll see that image on there

nosave, nosend These are pretty much self-explanatory

Okay now the next set of tags are the ones you can use on a Homepage but can't be used on e-mail, you can use the above tags on homepages also

LINK=colorname Color Of Linkz on a page

TEXT=colorname Color for the Text on a pge

VLINK=colorname Color of a Visited Link

bgcolor=colornameColor of background

Alright that was a list of body tags and the effect they have, now this is the HTML code you use to put them in to work

<body text=colorname hideoptions link=gold>

This was just an example, you can input any body tag that you wish!!

Transitions

Transitions are the way the page loads up, If you have ever gotten an e-mail from me then you seen it. This is the list of the transitions.

wipeup, wipedown wipeleft, wiperight, slideup, slidedown, slideleft and slideright

This is the HTML code to use them

<body transition=XXXX>

Where i put the XXXX, insert one of the transitions, they work on both e-mails and Homepages.

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If You have any questions, problems with anything on here e-mail me at GUS7@webtv.net Also if you want me to add any other kind of HTML, remember, this codes are Just the Basics, there are other things a little harder Like making Forms, Tables, Sidebars, Meta, Frames and the Javascript commands. So if you can master this, then your starting to learn. Laterz =Oş