materialsgirl
Cathlete
Alright, I'm going to try to explain how to change the color, size and font of your posts - for those of you who were interested. Bear with me, it's not as basic as the bold, italic or underline tags. But it's the same basic principal - you put "tags" around the text you want to change. There's always an opening tag and a closing tag. I have to use < and > for my brackets in order to post this - just make sure when you actually do it, you use the square brackets, which are located above and to the left of the Enter key on most keyboards.
So, to review: when we want to bold something, we use insert text here. The slash indicates that it's a closing tag. If you find your entire post bolded and you don't know why, it's probably because you forgot the slash in your closing tag.
The tag to add color is actually part of a general FONT tag, that has options for changing color, size, and font. We'll just deal with color for now.
The tag looks like this (but with square brackets):
<font color=red>insert text here</font>
Where I have "red", you can type any one of a number of "approved" color names. A list of widely recognized names appears here:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp
[font color=orchid]So I can make this text orchid, by typing orchid instead of red in my font tag.[/font] (ETA and it would help if I could spell things properly too! )
Does that make sense? Give it a whirl! Let's see some [font color=seagreen size=+1]COLOR![/font]
ETA
Alright, you guys look like you're catching on pretty well to the color changing. How about changing the text size? Wanna give it a try? It's within the same font tag. The font tag allows different "attributes", and color is just one of them. Another attribute is size. And that tag looks like this:
<font size=+2>insert text here</font>
To make your text bigger, use +1, +2, etc. To make it smaller, use -1, -2, etc. Note: +2 is [font size=+2]pretty big.[/font] And -2 is [font size=-2]pretty small.[/font]
If you want to be super fancy, you can change color AND size at once in the same tag. It would look like this
<font color=steelblue size=+2>insert text here</font>
[font color=steelbue size=+2]Here's a demo of that.[/font]
Now your turn!
So, to review: when we want to bold something, we use insert text here. The slash indicates that it's a closing tag. If you find your entire post bolded and you don't know why, it's probably because you forgot the slash in your closing tag.
The tag to add color is actually part of a general FONT tag, that has options for changing color, size, and font. We'll just deal with color for now.
The tag looks like this (but with square brackets):
<font color=red>insert text here</font>
Where I have "red", you can type any one of a number of "approved" color names. A list of widely recognized names appears here:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp
[font color=orchid]So I can make this text orchid, by typing orchid instead of red in my font tag.[/font] (ETA and it would help if I could spell things properly too!
)Does that make sense? Give it a whirl! Let's see some [font color=seagreen size=+1]COLOR![/font]
ETA
Alright, you guys look like you're catching on pretty well to the color changing. How about changing the text size? Wanna give it a try? It's within the same font tag. The font tag allows different "attributes", and color is just one of them. Another attribute is size. And that tag looks like this:
<font size=+2>insert text here</font>
To make your text bigger, use +1, +2, etc. To make it smaller, use -1, -2, etc. Note: +2 is [font size=+2]pretty big.[/font] And -2 is [font size=-2]pretty small.[/font]
If you want to be super fancy, you can change color AND size at once in the same tag. It would look like this
<font color=steelblue size=+2>insert text here</font>
[font color=steelbue size=+2]Here's a demo of that.[/font]
Now your turn!
