How do I add text to my page?

How do I add text to my page?
Remember that any text must be typed in between the BODY tags in order for your browser to be able to see it.

Text will automatically be aligned to the left because it is the DEFAULT setting:
You put your text here

To centre your text add this tag:

<ALIGN="CENTER">This will centre your text</CENTER>
Note that CENTER is spelt the American way.

This will centre your text

To align your text on the right add this tag:

<ALIGN="RIGHT">This will align your text to the right

This will align your text to the right

How do I change the font on my page?
Every browser has a DEFAULT font setting- a font name, size and colour that it uses, unless you tell it to use something else. It is usually Times New Roman 12pt (or 3) and it is black. So this is how your browser will show any web page fonts that do not have attributes set to make it show something different.

To change the setting you must use the following TAGS:

 

You will also use the following ATTRIBUTES:

SIZE="number" 1 being the smallest and 7 the largest
COLOR="#hex code" note the American spelling for colour.
FACE="Font Name"

Remember, attributes go INSIDE the start tag.

How can I change the font for the whole page?
You can change the font on the whole of your page by adding the tag BASEFONT directly after the <BODY> tag:

<BASEFONT="YourFontName" SIZE="number" COLOR="#hex code">

This tag will change the entire font on your page, and make it all the same size. You can change the information in blue to customise it for your site.

Substituting your own #hex code number will change the colour of your font. To choose a colour go here or to Colour in the Menu.

To change the font type, replace "YourFontName" with the font of your choice. You need to pick a font that most other people have on their computers (comic sans ms, verdana, arial, arial narrow etc.) in order for someone to see it on your page.

You can also change the font size by replacing the "number" 1 being the smallest and 7 the largest.

If you are concerned that someone will not be able to see your font, you can list more than one in the code. For instance, you can add comic sans ms, arial, verdana in the code (separated by commas), and your viewer will find the font they have installed on their computer.

If your viewer does not have comic sans installed on their computer, but they do have arial and verdana, they would see the arial font on your page. The viewer's browser will read the code from left to right and pick the first font available, and this is the font the viewer will see. So list them in order of importance from left to right.

How can I change a few words into a different font?
If you want to change the font for just a portion of your text you can override the above code by adding this code:

Your text goes here

All of the text in between and will be changed, but the text before and after this tag will be the default font that you set up in the BASEFONT tag.