What is HTML?
 
HTML is the language of web pages. The definition of HTML is Hyper Text Markup Language.
 
HyperText is the method by which you move around on the web — by clicking on special text called hyperlinks which bring you to the next page.

Markup is what HTML tags do to the text inside them. They mark it as a certain type of text (italicized text, for example).

HTML is a Language, as it has code-words and syntax like any other language.
 

How To use HTML

Although you are not required to know HTML, your GetMyWebSite is designed so that HTML can be entered into any text field within your site admin. There is also a html tab located on the lower left side of the text box in your editor.

Writing a HTML file means composing the text you want to display and then inserting any tags you want in the right places. Tags begin with a < character and end with a > character and tells the browser to do something special such as show text in italic or bold or in a larger font or to show an image or to make a link to another Web page.

Although HTML has many tags you can use, you don't need to know them all to use HTML- you can get by with just a handful.

Here is an example: To make text bold you have to mark where the bold text starts and where it returns to normal.  Like this...

<b> Bold text is great! </b> normal text.

This is what it will look like..... Bold text is great! normal text.

Useful Tags

Make your text <i>italic </i>
 
Make your text<b> BOLD </b>
 
<u>Underline </u>your text
 
<br> A line break will start a new line with out starting a new paragraph
 
Subscript <sub> this is subscript  </sub>
 
Superscript<sup> this is superscript  </sup>
 
Here is an example where break tags can be useful. Notice the <br> or break tag in the site name.
 
 

Instead of this site name reading as one long line the break tag command starts a new line for you. It will look like this:


<p>This is a paragraph</p>
<p>This is another paragraph</p> 

<HR> Horizontal Rule
 
Using Color
 
Using Color. You can produce color in HTML by using the color name or the hexadecimal codes (values of red, green and blue. RGB)
 
Example of how to apply color.
 
<Font color ="#0000ff"> Sample of blue text. </font>
<Font color ="blue"> Sample of blue text. </font>
 
Color Examples.
 
Aqua #00FFFF Black #000000 Blue #0000FF Fuchsia #FF00FF
Gray #808080 Green #008000 Lime #00FF00 Maroon #800000
Navy #000080 Olive #808000 Purple #800080 Red #FF0000
Silver #C0C0C0 Teal #008080 White #FFFFFF Yellow #FFFF00
 
Scrolling Text
To add / change the scrolling text you must work inside the html tab at the bottom of your editor.  The code you will be working with is as follows:
 
<div align="center">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="780" border="0">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>
            <marquee scrollamount="4" width="100%" bgcolor="#8A2930" :><font color="white"> Change this text to say to say whatever you want! </font></marquee</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
</div>
 
Change the text to say whatever you want, shown above in blue.  You can also change the color of the bar (highlighted in red).  The scrolling text defaults to the text color you have selected inside your site settings but you can also assign the color in the code (highlighted in green).

You can add this scrolling marquee anywhere on the site.  Just copy and paste the html.