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Making Links

To make a link you must have the name of the file you want to link to. Also you must have the text that you want users of your site to click on so that they will be "linked" to another place.

The Anchor tag

The anchor tag is also called the link tag. is the open anchor or link tag. is the closed link tag. The anchor tag can have other things inside the brackets with it such as NAME, HREF, and TITLE.An example is:
<A HREF="mypage.htm">

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Note:This isn't a real page, just an example. You would have to create a mypage.htm and then if you made this link it would link you to that particular page.

Image Tag


The Image Tag<IMG> makes images appear on your screen. You first need to download images. You do this by right clicking on the image and then go to save picture as and save the picture. You use the tag like this:

<IMG SRC="picture.gif">

Note:This will load the picture on your page.The SRC is for source. GIF is an extension JPG is also another extension that you get when downloading pictures.

Aligning Images

An image can be aligned TOP, MIDDLE,and BOTTOM.You an align an image by placing the alignment you want inside the the image tag. Like this:

<IMG SRC="picture.gif" ALIGN="MIDDLE">

Background Color

To change the background color you use the start body tag and insert BGCOLOR into the tag. This stands for BackGround COLOR. You can insert a a lot of colors into this tag, either numbers and letters which give you more colors to choose from or just using color names such as green, blue, red etc. An example is below:

BGCOLOR="#0000FF"
BGCOLOR="blue"

Note: These are the same colors. All numerical and letter colors must have the pound symbol in the beginning. You can mix and match numbers and letters to see what you get. Be careful to change your text to a light color if you use a dark background. And if you use a light background use darker text.

Text Color

To change the text color you basically do the same thing you did when you changed the background color. An example is:

TEXT="white">
This would give you a blue background with white text, you can use the same numbers and letter combinations to change text color also.

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