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There is a LOT to be said about fonts. I have this nasty old habit of saying what I have to say in as few words as I can possibly think of so please hang with me. I won't be able to tell you ALL that there is no know on one page but I will tell you enough to get ya' off to the races!!!
The font command is a "container"; that is it needs an opening <font> tag and a closing </font> tag... Keep this in mind as you begin to "play" with font commands!
Having the <font> command in your "tool box" is sorta like having a Ferrari in the garage. It doesn't do you any good unless you have the keys to make it run!! The "attributes" are the keys that make this one purr!!!
We're going to play with three of these attributes here and see if we cant bring some text to life!! Here are the three.....
size
color
effect
Okay, let's get to it! We'll take on the size thingy
first. To the best of my knowledge there are seven
font
sizes and six header sizes. If you find this to be
incorrect, please email me! I've seen this point
debated
and this is what I've learned from spending some
time
experimenting....
The default or standard font size used most commonly is three.... Let's take a look at the others, shall we?
This is font size = "1"
This is font size = "2"
This is font size = "3"
This is font size = "4"
This is font size = "5"
This is font size = "6"
This is font size = "7"
All of the font sizes are
obtained by using this HTML....
Let me throw in one BIG TIP
right here and NOW!! Use the header
containers only once, at the top or your webpages!!
Let me
repeat that... Use the header containers only
once!!! If
you pull them off the rack again in the middle of a
page,
they will make the font changing miserable for the
rest of
that page!!!
Now it's time to go about the business of adding the
color attribute
to the
size attribute!!!
Here's how this is done......
Does this look at least a little different to you?¿?
I'll bet it does!¡!
And that was sooooooo easy to do! All we had to do
was add
two attributes to
the font
tag!!!
When I get enough "free time" (rolling on the floor
laughing my butt off) to add a "resources page" to
this
site, it will have a link on it to WebTV Junky's
Color
Picker. This is a great tool to use for color
selection!
Meanwhile, if you need it email me and I'll get it
to
you... We could have used the word "magenta" instead
of
the
"hex code" for
the color in the last example but the "hex code" will
work
better when your page or mail is going to be viewed
by
people who are not using WebTV! The color picker
gives
both the WebTV color name and the "hex
code" for each color!
Okay, it looks like we have one more
attribute to take on and we'll
call
this page history!! This last one is called "effect". Here's
how
it's used...
There are two other "values"
that can be used with the effect attribute.
They
are "emboss" and "shadow". Relief creates the idea that the text is
"raised" off of the page, emboss
looks as though the text
is pressed into the page, and shadow
casts a shadow down
and to the right of the text! It doesn't work very
well on
this black background of mine though!!!
Play with the information that we've "discovered" on
this
page. Find a place that's comfortable for you to
practice!
Might I suggest setting up a HomePage account with
one of
the free services? This will allow you to save what
you're
learning. It works out a LOT better for me than
practicing
in the email signature box!! Whatever you decide,
remember
to always "play safe"!!!
