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August 2003
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G'day, Well, finally, issue 15 rolls off the To top it all off, my elderly mum (that's “mom” for our American friends) had a fall and broke her hip, which required surgery. She is recovering ok, but she will never walk again. She lives in Bundaberg, some 500 kms from our home in Toowoomba, so my wife and I rode up on our motorcycle to visit her and discuss her care with the rest of the family. So, an eventful time for us, and I'm sorry, but it meant that some
email didn't get processed on time, and this ezine is horribly late.
I'm sure our wonderful readers will be understanding and forgiving.
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WORKING
WITH FONTS Copyright (c) 2003. All Rights Reserved. In part 1 (last issue) we discussed the standard HTML tags which permit you to specify font appearances. We looked at the heading tags (e.g., <H1>, <H7>, etc.) and the font tag (e.g., <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="+2">). HTML allows us to do a few more things with fonts. We're going to look at more tags which allow us to change the look of our text, including subscript and superscript characters, displaying normal ASCII text, strikethrough characters, and of course, the bold, italic and underlined text, and then we will look at styles and how this allows us a much greater degree of control over our fonts.
There are two ways you can make text appear bold. The first is to use the <b> tag. It works like this:
The second is to use the <strong> tag, which works as follows:
Note: whilst this works in most browsers, some may interpret the <strong>
tag differently.
ITALIC TEXT Again, there are two ways you can display italicized text. The first is to use the <i> tag.
You can achieve a similar outcome using the <em> tag. (The “em” stands for “emphasis”.)
Again, some web browsers may display emphasized text differently.
You can underline text, but be aware that one of the conventions on the WWWeb is for hyperlinks to be underlined. Thus, if you underline text, it is likely some of your readers will try to click on those words to “follow the link”, and these dear souls may be left puzzled and confused when they are not transported to a different page. The way to underline words is by use of the <u> tag.
Isn't that nice and easy? Continued on page
2 (Superscript and subscript, preformatted text,
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By Joe Beaven © Joe Beaven - All Rights Reserved Whilst planning this article, I visited numerous message boards where web designers congregate. I was shocked! Success did seem to be coming to a few posters, but struggle seemed the plight of most. Leaving design college and still being unemployed after a year was one common story. Beginners to freelance working for next to nothing or not working at all was another. Most web designers will experience dry periods when they just can't seem to get any work. But what do you do? Complain? Become frustrated? Become depressed? That's why I decided to write this article, to let web designers like you know that it doesn't need to be that way, and that you can make money with your web design skills, even when it seems like websites must have gone out of fashion. And how can you do this wondrous thing? By designing in-demand turnkey websites that you can sell on eBay and elsewhere on the Internet. Turnkey websites allow your clients to start making money as soon as they get their hands on them. Continued on Page
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Power Ads, like the one above, guarantee you first page placement and prominance for just $3.95. Book yours here. On page 2: Free Software, Readers' Classifieds, Article: Working With Fonts (cont.), lots more. HTML: Webmasters Digest Ezine is published in low-overhead HTML. By this we mean we use a minimum of images, no JavaScripts, and only simple tables. The HTML code is optimised and compacted to reduce file size as far as possible. In this way we retain some control of fonts, layout, and have the advantages of using hyperlinks (such as in the "Contents" table and reader's ads). Whilst there has been some concern over HTML emails in the past, we believe the Internet has evolved, most peoples' computers and Internet connections are much faster and more powerful, and the Internet is no longer the preserve of techies and programmers. Legitimate business has arrived, and frankly, HTML email is essential if you want advertising to actually attract customers and achieve sales. This
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