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More HTML Formatting Help
Posted by: | CommentsWe have already covered some basic HTML tags you will use when writing your web page code. Here are a few more that you might find come in handy, when designing your own web page.
Image Tags
In HTML, when you want to call upon an image to be displayed on your web page, you need to use the img tag. This tag tells the browser and web server that you are going to put an image here, and then what follows src= is the direct path to the image in question.
Code: <img src=”http://www.yourdomain.com/yourimage.jpg” />
Horizontal Rule Tags
The horizontal rule is for making a nice separator between sections of your web page. It acts as a single solid line that can be placed anywhere on your web page. It looks like this:
Code: <hr />
List Tags
If you want to format a list of topics on a single page, then the list tags will come in handy. You would start a list with the <ul> tag and end it with the </ul> tag. For each item on the list, you will want to wrap it in the <li> and </li> tags.
Code: <ul> <li>item #1</li> <li>item #2</li> </ul>
Ordered List Tags
If you want to format a list of topics on a single page, and have them numbered, the ordered list tags should be used. You would start a list with the <ol> tag and end it with the </ol> tag. For each item on the list, you will want to wrap it in the <li> and </li> tags.
Code: <ol> <li>item #1</li> <li>item #2</li> </ol>
Link Tags
Links are used to help users go from one page to the next page. The basic link is started with the <a href=”"> tag with the page’s path you want to link to inside the quotation marks. Then you type in the text of the link, and close it out with the </a> tag.
Code: <a href=”http://www.somedomain.com/pageiamlinkingto.html”>This Text is a Link</a>
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Basic HTML Formatting Help
Posted by: | CommentsWhen it comes to formatting a web page using HTML code, you can think of it (kind of) in the same way you would look at formatting a document formatted by a word processor. You have your headlines to show you where one section starts and stops. You have your paragraphs to break up blocks of text, and you have line breaks to show where there should be a new line started. Now I am going to show you how to get some of these things done using HTML.
Headline Tags
The main purpose of the headline tags are make the titles stand out on the page, and also tell the browser and visitors where the titles are. You can use <h1></h1> for the main title, then (if needed) <h2></h2> for a secondary title. The bigger the number gets, the smaller or less important the title becomes. Remember to use the headline tags for headings only. It is not a good idea to use them to make text bigger or bolder. Also, search engines look at how your headline tags are used to help index the structure of the content on your web pages.
Code: <h1>This Is My Title</h1>
Paragraph Tags
The paragraph tags are important because they show the start (
) and then end
of where a paragraph should be on your web page. Having a long page with nothing but unformatted text is going to be very hard for the reader to navigate through. You want to break up the web page with the paragraph tags to make the web page your working on more scan-able for the end user.
Code: <p>This will be shown as it’s own paragraph on my web page.</p>
Line Break Tags
What if you don’t want to go to a new paragraph, and instead only want to break of one line and move to the line right under it? That is what the
or
tags are for. You might see either used, however it might be best to start using
to future-proof your web page for browsers in the future (just in case support for
was ever dropped.
Code: I can put this at the end of a line to show where I want it to stop. <br />
Blockquote Tags
When text has been blockquoted, it is often indented a little – in comparison with the other paragraphs around it. So you get white space to the left, and the margins around the text are enlarged a little ‘bit to seperate it from the rest of the text.
Code: <blockquote>This text will be shown as indented on my web page.</blockquote>
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Modify the HTML Body Tag
Posted by: | CommentsThere are several HTML tags that can act as modifiers to how the web page looks visually.
First, let us re-visit the body tags. The body tags are there to tell the browser what part of the document is going to be visible to the end user when viewing the web page. This is marked up in your HTML code by putting a <body> where your web page’s content begins and a </body> tags where it ends.
How to Modify the Body Tag
So, any time you modify the body tags, you will be changing the way the web site is seen. There are several body tag modifiers you can use.
Change the Web Page’s Background Color
You can add bgcolor=”VALUE” (replacing VALUE with the name of the color or the HEX number) to change the background color for a web page.
- Code: <body bgcolor=”white”> (this would make the background all white)
Change the Web Page’s Text Color
You can add text=”VALUE” (replacing VALUE with the name of the color or the HEX number) to change the background color for a web page.
- Code: <body text=”black”> (this would make the text all black)
Change the Web Page’s Link Color
You can add link=”VALUE” (replacing VALUE with the name of the color or the HEX number) to change the color of links on a web page.
- Code: <body link=”blue”> (this would make the links all blue)
Change the Web Page’s Visited Link Color
You can add vlink=”VALUE” (replacing VALUE with the name of the color or the HEX number) to change the color of link that have already been visited on a web page.
- Code: <body vlink=”red”> (this would make the visited links red)
Change the Web Page’s Active Link Color
You can add alink=”VALUE” (replacing VALUE with the name of the color or the HEX number) to change the color of an active link.
- Code: <body alink=”purple”> (this would make the active link purple)
More Helpful Body Tag Tips
You can use more than one of these at a time. If you wanted to, you could use more than one of these body modifiers at a time. you would just need to remember to put a space in between each body modifier. For example:
<body bgcolor="black" color="white">
This is how you would link more than one together, this would tell the browser to make the background of the web page black and the text on the web page white. There is no limit to the number of these modifiers you can use on the body tag, as long as everything is formatted correctly, the web page should come out the way you want it to.
Only add these modifiers to the opening body tag. It is important to note that you only add these modifiers to the opening tag <body> and not the closing tag </body>.
Where can I find the HTML color or HEX values? You can find these many places. One of the best examples, is on w3school.com’s HTML colors page here:
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HTML Basics
Posted by: | CommentsHyper Text Markup Language, or as you know it HTML, is the markup language for most web pages on the Internet.
Now, it is not exactly a language like English or Spanish, which we communicate with verbally. A markup language is a system for editing text in a way that changes how the text looks or how you interact with it. Where you use funny looking code to make one section of text look different than the other, the code in question is not seen by the end user. The server the web page is coming from, and the user’s browser come together to help mesh it together as something that is seen as visually appealing to the end user.
A Simple HTML Example
Here is an example of a web site written in HTML code:
<html> <body> <p>This is my first web site. I hope you enjoy it!</p> </body> </html>
Breaking Down the HTML Code
As you can see from the text above, this is a pretty simple example. You have the basic text of the web site, “This is my first web site. I hope you enjoy it!” with several HTML tags wrapped around it. The HTML tags are what give the text commands on how it should be interpreted by the browser.
- The <html> and </html> tags wrapped around the text tells you this is an HTML document.
- The <body> and </body> tags wrapped around the text tells you this is the “body” of the web page, where the content you want displayed in the browser goes.
- The <p> and </p> tags wrapped around the text tells you this should be formatted as a paragraph.
Here are some frequently asked questions somebody might have at this point.
How do you create an HTML file like this one? Best thing to use would be a plain text editor, such as Notepad. The reason for this, is you want the files in question to be saved with no extra markup information included.
How do I save the file as a HTML web page? You will want to save the file with a .html extension at the end. This will tell the web browser that this page is an HTML coded page, and should be read like one. As an example, I saved this file as “test.html”. The “test” name does not matter at this point, it could be anything. We will dive deeper into how to name your HTML files in a later tutorial.
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Pros and Cons for VPS Hosting
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Anybody who has been in web hosting long enough to at least know the tiers knows that when you move from a shared hosting server to a VPS hosting server, your entire website experience will be better. However, there are misconceptions about how much bang for your buck you will get with VPS hosting too. With that said, I thought it might be a good ideas of looking at some of the pros and cons of switching from your standard shared web hosting plan to a Virtual Private Server.
The Pros for Switching to VPS
The number one thing you get when you switch to VPS hosting is more CPU power and RAM access. These server side resources are as good as gold to a website using a content management system that has overgrown a shared hosting setup. If you get a fully managed VPS hosting plan, then the web host will take care of the server side of things – just as if you were on a shared hosting plan. If you are looking at VPS technology, I would say go with a Xen server-based setup. With it, you can be sure that your resources are limited to your account and your website will be less likely to come crashing down because of something your server neighbor is going through.
The Cons for Switching to VPS
The biggest bad thing about switching to VPS hosting might still be the price. While it is significantly lower than dedicated hosting, VPS hosting can still take a big chunk out of your wallet. You might also have misconceptions when it comes to how big of a VPS you need. I know when I first switched, I thought 756 MB of RAM would be plenty for my four websites – and I was wrong. To run my websites successfully and to have a little elbow room to grow, I had to end up going with 2GB of RAM, 100GB of disk space, 1.25 TB of bandwidth.
Overall, once your website or network of websites becomes too popular, you will have to come to the realization that it is time for a change. Many people are turning towards VPS hosting these days because it is easier to both deploy and manage than dedicated server hosting. Setting up VPS nodes for a web hosting perspective is just a lot easier than ordering X number of servers for dedicated hosting customers. The advantages also get passed back down to the consumer too – as VPS hosting is getting cheaper and cheaper these days.
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How to Setup FileZilla
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New to FileZilla? Today, I have for you a tutorial to help get started using it. This fantastic FTP program might be my favorite FTP client – mainly because it is so simple to use.
Hope you enjoyed that tutorial and let me know in the comments if you would like to see more!
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