10. Formatting text in blog entries (advanced)
27 May 2009
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Anyone can use Penpages to create a simple website. Start with the standard download package and after gaining confidence you can learn basic universal HTML coding standards to customise your pages. PENpages is open-source, using conventional PHP, HTML and CSS.
Formatting text
Penpages handles text in a very basic manner - just type away in the entry field and leave an empty line space to create paragraphs. The result is plain, easy to read paragraphs. Sometimes however, we want to use BOLD, ITALIC, and COLOUR to make the text easier to read.
Rather than complicate the development of Penpages by adding complex formatting tools for we felt that our users could learn a few basic web-coding commands (HTML tags and CSS classes).
HTML tags generally come in pairs, a beginning tag and an ending tag, that wrap around the text to be formatted. Note the use of the slash inside the closing tag.
This is how we make bold text
This text is italic
We use a special tag called SPAN to apply CSS classes...
make text bigger
even bigger
or change colour
make something bold and colourful
or big bold and colourful
Be careful to nest the tags in pairs.
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