| Want some help designing your page? Here are some quick
tips on how to make your page look its best. Using backgrounds
Most people, when they choose a background for their page, pick a
background that is too jumbled or bright. If your background picture is
too busy, no one will be able to read what you type over it. Make sure
your background is simple and not very bright. When you type over it, make
sure that the words are very easy to read. Never use an animated
(changing) background. They are ugly and distracting and people hate
trying to read words written on them.
Examples:
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Wrong
This background is cute, but it makes your
words to hard to read. Stay away from backgrounds with too many
light and dark colors together. |
Right
This background is lighter and that makes it
much easier to read what you have written. Make sure you use
dark-colors when you type to make your words stand out.
This is too light. |
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Wrong Notice how this page is
very hard to read. The moving
background is too distracting
and the letters are much too
dark. Pick a lighter color and
choose a light-colored
background that does not
distract from the words. |
Right
This page is much easier to read. The text is
the same color, but the background is lighter. If you want to use a
dark-colored background, use a light color when you type. You can
find this background in the free clipart section of this site.
This is too light. |
Adding Music to Your Page
On this site, I will not teach you how to add music to your page and there
is a VERY good reason for that. Music is annoying. People hate visiting
pages that play music. Usually the music is too loud. It is very
distracting. Not everyone likes the same kind of music. It can be quite
irritating. I, for one, NEVER visit sites with music. If I hear music, I
leave the site immediately. It is a sure sign of someone who is a complete
newbie to the internet. Music causes most people's pages to load very
slowly or not at all, so no one will go to your page if it has music on
it.
Adding Images to Your Page
One of the most irritating things that I have seen is players with so much
junk on their Horseland page that the site takes forever to load for
anyone trying to look at it. Please do not be that moron with fifty images
all the way down their page. Choose five or six images and let that be
your site. You do not need every single picture that you like on the
internet plastered on your page. You can always change your pictures out
any time you want to. You can have new pictures all the time. You do not
need all of them on your site at once. If your page takes too long to see,
no one will ever go to look at it again.
If you would like some free images to add to your page, you can go
here and get some from
this site to use on your Horseland page. Never use gigantic images on your
page. They take too long to load.
Images With Backgrounds
Most people do not consider how their images look on their backgrounds.
Some images look good on light backgrounds and some images look good on
dark backgrounds. Test some different pictures on your site to make sure
they look okay.
Examples:
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Wrong
This image has light-colored edges and will look horrible on a
dark background. |
Right
This same image looks much better on a
light-colored background. |
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Wrong
This image was made only for white backgrounds. |
Right
Change your background color
to white if you want to use an image with white around it. |
How can I get my own images off
the internet?
The easiest way to use your own images is to use a free online picture
host. A good host is Image Shack.
When you find a picture you like, save it to your computer. Go to Image
Shack. Click the gray button that says "browse." Find your picture in the
file where you saved it. Click on your picture and then click "host it!"
You will be taken to a page with lots of bars and HTML. Go all the
way down to the box that says "hotlink for websites" next to it. Copy the
code in that box and put it in your description box on your Horseland page
to see your picture.
Using Basic HTML HTML is computer
code. It is instructions that you give to a computer to tell it what you
want your page to look like. HTML can be very hard to use, but some things
are very easy. Here are a few very easy things you can use for your page.
What does a picture look like in HTML?
HTML for a picture looks like this: <img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y73/sweetlittleamber/horseland/p1.gif">
See how it starts with "img src?" That means "image source" which is where
your picture comes from. Make sure you never take away anything in your
HTML or it will stop working. It must always have these: < > in front and
on the end. How to I put my
picture in the middle of my page?
To center a picture, you need to put this in front of your image: <center>
and this at the end of your image: </center>
So after you do this, your HTML should look like this:
<center><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y73/sweetlittleamber/horseland/p1.gif"></center>
If you do not want your picture in the center, just take those off of the
HTML and your picture will move to the left on your page.
How do I skip a line?
If you want to go to the next line, put this at the end of where you want
to skip: <br>
If you want to skip 2 lines, put <br><br>
You will skip one line for each one. "br" means "break." |
