The Advanced Editor


Ok. If you're here, I'm assuming that you have some understanding of HTML or you'd like to learn to set-up your site from scratch...without using the basic editor. Doing this allows you a lot more freedom to make the page look how you want...you can add background graphics and other features anywhere you like, without being restricted by the Basic Editor format.

You'd be surprised how little there is to creating a basic HTML page when starting from scratch. There are a just a few key steps:

1. Start the HTML Document

You must START the document with:

<HTML>

so that the computer knows what type of file it is. Put this at the very beginning.

2. Specify the Background

You may choose to have the background as either a plain colour or a graphic.
To use a plain colour, type:

<BODY BGCOLOR="colour">

where you replace colour with the number of your chosen colour. For a list of colour numbers, click here.

To use a graphic file for the background, type:

<BODY BACKGROUND="graphic.gif">

where you replace graphic.gif with the name of the graphic file you have chosen.
Make sure you use the Geocities EZ Upload facility to transfer the graphic file onto the server.

3. Specify the text colour

To select the colour your basic text will appear in, type:

<BODY TEXT="colour">

where colour is replaced with the number of the colour you have chosen.
Make sure the colour you choose is easy to read against the background colour!

4. Specify the colour of the unvisited links

To select the colour your links will appear in before a visitor clicks on them (they're usually blue), type:

<BODY LINK="colour">

where colour is replaced with the number of the colour you have chosen.

5. Specify the colour of the visited links

To select the colour your links will appear in after a visitor clicks on them (they're usually grey), type:

<BODY VLINK="colour">

where colour is replaced with the number of the colour you have chosen.

NOTE: Because all these tags begin with the word "BODY", we group them together so that they look like this:

<BODY BACKGROUND="graphic.gif" TEXT="colour" LINK="colour" VLINK="colour">

6. Type the body of the document

Any text, graphics, tables etc. go in this section.

7. End the HTML Document

You must END the document with:

</HTML>

So, it's really not that difficult to set-up your own HTML document. As an example, the HTML for THIS page looks like this:

<HTML>
<BODY BACKGROUND="bgblue.gif" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#0000FF">
the body text is here
</HTML>

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