Use the HTML basic command guide below to customize your own posts wherever HTML editing is permitted.

Making text bold

To make text appear bold, use <b> and </b> around the text. For example:

Make <b>this bold</b>

will look like:

Make this bold

Making text italic

To make text appear italic, use <i> and </i> around the text. For example:

Make <i>this italic</i>

will look like:

Make this italic

Making text underlined

To make text appear underlined (without being an actual link), use <u> and </u> around the text. For example:

Make <u>this underlined</u>

will look like:

Make this underlined

Creating line breaks

There are two basic line breaks in HTML. Use <br> to break to the next line or <p> to skip a line. For example:

1<br>2<p>3

will look like:

1

2

3

Changing the size of text

To change the size of text, use <font size="+1"> to look bigger, or <font size="-1"> to look smaller. End with </font>. You can also change the number value if you want to. For example:

Make text <font size="+2">bigger</font> or <font size="-2">smaller</font>

will look like:

Make text bigger or smaller

Changing the type of font

There are a few different fonts you can use, and the most common are:

Times New Roman: (this is the default for all browsers)

Arial or Helvetica: use <font face="arial, helvetica"> and </font>

Verdana: use <font face="verdana"> and </font>

Garamond: use <font face="garamond"> and </font>

For example:

Make <font face="garamond">this font garamond</font>

will look like:

Make this font garamond

Changing the font color

There are many different Web-safe colors that you can use in your template. View the HTML Color Codes Chart.

To make text appear in a certain color, use the color codes like this: <font color="#FF0000">. For example:

Make <font color="#FF0000">this font red</font>

will look like:

Make this font red

To set default font colors for the entire page, use color codes in the <body> command. For example, if you want:

    font = black

    link = blue
    ‘visited’ link = red

    ‘while being clicked’ link = pink

use:

<body text="#000000" link="#FFFF00" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#FF00CC">

Including a graphic

To include a graphic in your HTML template, use <img src="URL">. Be sure to include the entire URL of the graphic, starting with http://.

Including a link

To include a link in your HTML template, use <a href="URL"> and </a> around the text of the link. Be sure to include the entire URL, starting with http://. For example:

Make <a href="http://www.lyris.com">this text link to http://www.lyris.com</a>

will look like:

Make this text link to http://www.lyris.com

Including a numbered or bulleted list

To include a list in your HTML template, use <ol> and </ol> at the beginning and end of the list, and use <li> to create the individual lines. For example:

<ol>

<li>This is line one

<li>This is line two

</ol>

will look like:

  1. This is line one
  2. This is line two

If you want to use a bulleted list instead of a numbered list, use <ul> and </ul> instead of <ol> and </ol>.

If you desire more assistance, please utilize the wide variety of HTML resources on the Web (or HTML books and manuals).