Some of you have noticed the limitations of text in html. Here are some things you can accomplish with this blog with just a little bit of effort. See the list of tags below.

1. First there are three buttons you should be aware of in Edit this Post. The first helps you create a hyper link to a web page. The second is the B which boldfaces any highlighted text and the third is the I which changes highlighted text to italics.
2. Lots of paragraphs are more readable than one big chunk of text.
   
3. Bold faced headers also help tell the reader what to expect.
   

However, there is more you can accomplish by learning some simple HTML.

Colored Text: You can create colored text: This is red text <font color="red">This is red text </font>

Your computer screen can handle millions of colors but you'll need to know the exact number for most of them but you can get the basic colors just by naming red, blue, green, yellow. Try it.


You can underline text. underlined <u>underlined</u>


 

You can see the code for creating a hot link.
This is a Link to Blogger


<a href="http://www.blogger.com/home.pyra">This is a link to Blogger</a>
The blogger has a tool to help you create this link but I don't see anyone doing it, and I know that those who have tried aren't getting it right. Here's how to make it work:

Copy the actual URL from the location bar of your browser. Go to Edit Your Blog and type something you want to be a link. For example: click here.Select the words that will be the link. While the words are selected, click on the globe icon on the tool bar. This will pop up a window into which you should paste the URL you have copied to memory. Click in the box and press ctrl-V to paste. You have to use the keyboard commands because the edit menu is not available.


But here is an alternative way that works in this version of Crusty Cassette: If you can't remember all the code just remember to type left middle right.

The left part of a url is <a href="
The middle part is ">
The right part is </a>


All you have to do is paste the URL between the left and middle sections and type the words that you want to become the link between the middle and right sections. The trick is to put the words Middle, left, and right between two bar | characters.
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You can even center and link to a picture if you know where it is stored.


<center><img src="http://myweb.cableone.net/CROSETTI/CrustyCassette/SiteImages/jersey.JPG" width="139" height="212"></center>

Block Indent: Did you notice that some of the text was indented above? I did that by putting <UL> at the beginning and </UL> at the end of the block of text I wanted indented. the tags <blockquote></blockquote>also will indent a chunk of text .These tools can make your blog entry much more readable.

Create an Anchor It is possible to create a quick index for a long blog by setting an anchor and then using the hotlink tool to create a link to it.

First create the anchor by using the following code:

<a name="Anchor"></a> The word Anchor should be replaced with whatever you want to remember this spot in the blog as.

Then create a link somewhere near the top of the blog by typing a reference and using the hotlink tool. First highlight the text that will be a link and then click on the hotlink. In the pop up window, delete the http: and enter #Anchor again replacing the word Anchor with the same name you used to create the anchor.

Try it, you'll like it.

Here are some tags you should become familiar with:

• <center></center> This centers the enclosed item
• <b></b> Bold face
• <i></i> italics
• <u></u>
• <h3></h3> Sets header font size. Try numbers 1 through 9.
• <font color="red"></font> Sets the color of the text. Try basic colors.
• <blockqutoe></blockquote> indents blocks of text. There is no html for a paragraph indentation.