Ever wonder how people got their text so funny?
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It's called HTML. HTML is the random series of numbers, letters, and odd little triangular symbols that's telling your browser what to do right now. The font, color, size, weight and style of this text is determined by HTML as are all of the graphics and layouts on this page. It's a very easy language to learn how to use and its extremely worthwhile. Here are some codes that are both accepted to HPFF.com and useful it story writing.
...text...Block quoting can be useful if you wish to portray something like a letter or a news article amidst a mass of text within your chapter. To do so, simply type <blockquote> before your desired text and </blockquote> after it. Pretty simple, huh?
Another thing that can be useful in writing letters or news articles is the Typewriter Text. It's a basic font appearing in most, if not all, browsers that is summoned up like this. The Tags for typewriter text look like this: Bolding: ...text... Bolding is a pretty basic one that most people know and is use very frequently. The tags look like this <b> </b> Italics: ...text... Italics work exactly the same as bolding does. <i> </i> Underlining: ...text... Underlining works in exactly the same fashion <u> </u> Centering: Centering is the only tag still permitted in story summaries and looks great surrounding an image (banners!) tag. It centers things nicely and makes your page flow better, especially if your graphic is less than 700 pixels wide. But be very careful to close this tag properly. If you don't, all of the stories below yours will be centered as well! I also like to use center tags to delineate between passages of time or location.
See! Center tags look like this <center> </center> Paragraphs: ...text... Paragraph tags are really useful for stories because - duh - they make
paragraphs! But, HPFF.com is designed to understand "Carriage Returns" (it
should recognize the "enter" key as a This is what a paragraph tag looks like <p> </p> The "Break" Tag: The "Break" tag creates a space approximately the size of the enter button. If your chapter is showing up as one big blob, you might consider entering these instead of hitting the space bar. This is the only tag permitted on HPFF.com that does not need to be closed. <br> Font Color: ...text... Font color can be useful, but its more complicated than the other tags because you have to know hexadecimal color codes to use it properly. And now i've lost you :) Don't worry - Visibone offers a color chart to be rivaled by no other for its ease of use. Click here to visit their website. I've used this chart more times than I care to remember. A color code is a series of six numbers that signify a certain location on
the color palette. You can develop any variance or shade you like by mixing the
numbers. The tags work as follows: Line Breaks: Have you ever read one of those stories where the author decided they wanted a line break between their authors note and their story text, so they used hyphens...all...the...way...across...the..page...until...it...stretched...into...oblivion. How totally annoying was that? STOP THE MADNESS! Using this nifty little tag will build you a line break that resizes depending on a persons screen resolution. Isn't that nice? Just type <br><hr><br> into your story and voila!
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