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Changing Text
If you like a font, you can put it as the default for your site (or for a single letter) with the "font face" tag.
<font face="font1, font2, font3"> each font will be the successive fonts, you could do as many as you want. if the user doesn't have the font you had in the tag, it defaults to whatever they normally use... as if the tag wasn't there. end the tag with </font>
<font size=3> will set the font size to 3, which is whatever they use anyway, 1-7 are the sizes. The beauty of not specifying font size is that it's all relative to what the user uses. If they have a crazy big font, your page will accommodate. That way you don't have to look pretentious with a "this page optimized for 1200 by 1400 resolution" disclaimer ;) anyway... To combine font face, and size, you would say...
<font size=3 face="13ghosts">
or!
<font size=3 face="13ghosts" color="#fff333> oh yeah, that will throw a color on the font too. and to end it all, you would use, </font>
Here's something semi-useful. the <tt> tag does a typewriter style font. The nice thing about it is that it's monospaced so that everything lines up real nice... like if you're doing tablature or something. end it with </tt>
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you can put backgrounds up on your site... obviously. You have to put the background image in your "body " tag. (from the very beginning, the head and body tags...) it will actually have to be in the bracket written as... <body background="something.gif"> and the picture "something.gif" will become the background. I recommend using something that won’t make it hard to read the text... but, go nuts, you know?
The very best way to get into HTML is to view it in the wild, so to speak. To do that, right click on a web page, any web page and click on "view source." That, along with a basic working knowledge will really show you everything you need to know.
Second thing is some websites deliver ready made scripts for you to use for free. A good one is dynamic drive. http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
The last thing, is getting webspace. You can do it for 100% free. you'll be limited as to what you can give out in terms of file size, but, for most people free sites work. I use stormpages.com. you'll have to register, then you can use the html editor to make as many pages any way you want to. just type in whatever you want, and link em together. viola, website. tell your friends.
The main page of your site will generically be called "index.html" so, when you go to stormpages.com/lee you're really going to stormpages.com/lee/index.html. it's best not to mess with the name of that one.
You also have access to the file editor, from there you can upload pictures (press upload, browse for a picture on your computer, select it, press ok) and link to it, for pictures, like I told you above. Files are done just like any other link <a href="filename"> to link to other pages on your site it's
<a href="otherpage.html"> wordswords </a>
and to link to other sites it's
<a href="http:\\somesite.com"> some site name </a>
one last thing. there’s an html book that I find indispensable, it's the: "visual quickstart HTML 4" book by Elizabeth Castro. It's really well written, and excellent as a reference. Now that I think of it, I also have the Javascript visual quickstart book, that's good too.
That should get you going. Have fun.
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