For images that you want to add into your page, add the HTML code for
that command:
< img src="//www.oocities.org/SoHo/3505/image.gif" >
img - tells the browser that you want to insert a picture src - tells the browser that you are going to tell it where to
get the picture from.
The source can be in your account, in which case you just put the name,
image.gif. Or the source can be in someone else's account, in which, you
just put the address that pulls a picture up.
For example:
< img src="//www.oocities.org/SoHo/3505/kerokero.gif" >
pulls up the following gif:
***WARNING****:
ONLY GeoCities residents may direct link my gifs. If you are not a
GeoCities resident, please DO NOT direct link to any of my gifs. If
they ask me to change the names of some of the gifs because too many
outside of GeoCities are remote loading them, I will have to comply.
Please don't ruin it for everyone else.
additionally, you can tell the browser, where in the page you want to
have the picture displayed. You just insert one of these commands
between img and src.
align=right align=left align=center
Colours!
For colours to add in your background or text, here is a great
colour index: The Color Cube! (you will need javascript turned).
To put them in your HTML documents. Add the HTML code :
< body bgcolor="colour code" text="colour code" link="colour code" vlink="colour code" alink="colour code" >
For example, the code for this page's colour scheme used to be:
< body bgcolor="387272" text="FFFF80" link="F1F1E0" vlink="99cc32" alink="FF0000" >
bgcolor is the background colour
text is the text colour
link is the unlinked hyperlinks' that you reference
vlink is the visited hyperlinks' colour
alink is the active hyperlinks' colour
If you want to put in an image as your background, just substitute the
bgcolor="colour code" with background="image.gif" You can easily interchange .gif with .jpg (.jpeg) or .bmp.
Helpful Commands!
Here are lists of commands and what they mean...
< br >... is for a line break... like, if you want to end a line early, use this, or for another blank line
< L1 >... is for the start of a line in a list
< i >... is for italics (don't forget to close it off also
< em >... is the same as "i", in italics
< strong >... is a command that makes text appear bold
< b >.... you guessed it is for bold print
< u >.... this underlines text...but it only shows up in certain browsers
< dd >... this will indent a line
< blockquote >... this will indent a quote
< p >.... is to end a paragraph...
these are for lists...
< OL >... is the command for ordered lists that will come out with a number in front of each item.
< UL >... is the command for unnumbered lists that will come out with a bullet in front of each item.
< DL >... is the command for lists, in which the items will be indented, without numbers or bullets in front of the items.
For each of these, you will have to put < L1 >, in front of each item, so as to activate the list. Also, to end the list, put in the end command for the list you used. You will also have to end each list with a paragraph marker
Great Tip!
The greatest help for me, in creating my own web page, has been looking at the source file of everyone else...
To do this, you go in "view" at the top of the screen, then click on it, and click on "source". Or you can:
For Macs -- hold down the mouse button and choose "view source"
For Windows 95 users -- right mouse click on the web page, and choose "view source".
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