HTML And CSS Mentor

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HTML And CSS Makes Your Lens Look Great!!!

Many of you start writing your lenses without any HTML and CSS, but as you start understanding Squidoo, you want to learn how to spice your lenses up. HTML and CSS is just the ticket that you may be looking for.

Here, on this lens, you will learn from me how to use HTML and CSS. My name is Trekkiemelissa and I am your HTML and CSS Mentor; a citizen Squid.

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What Does HTML and CSS Stand For? 

HTML stands for hyper text markup language and CSS stands for cascade style sheets. I know this may sound confusing to you, but as you start learning, a lightbulb will start lighting up in your head. Please do not expect to learn everything overnight, because I can tell you it does not happen right away, but as you start using it more, the more you will understand. I know this may sound greek to you right now, but have patience. You will learn HTML and CSS.

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My Tips to You 

Before Jumping in

  • Don't expect to understand HTML and CSS Right away. Rome was not built in one day after all.
  • Take baby steps. Learn one thing, then come back. This will keep you from getting overwhelmed.
  • Don't give up. All else fails, contact me and I will try to help you. With HTML and CSS, if you miss one thing, there are problems.
  • When using HTML or CSS, choose colors that are going to complement each other so that you are not overdoing it.

Learn About Squidoo's WYSWYG Editor!!! 

featured lens Doing HTML or CSS With the WYSIWYG Editor

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Basic HTML

Basic Codes 

These are codes that you will be using on a regular basis so they are very important to know.

Paragraph - <p>
Bold - <b>
Underline - <u>
Italics - <i>

 

featured lens Basic HTML for Squidoo

Before you start reading all this, you may want to open Advanced HTML in a new tab, because you'll be wanting to check it out as soon as you've finished this! You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (the...

Adding Links and Images 

<a href="yourwebaddress.com">Webaddress Name</a> If you want the link to open up in a new window you would have to do this <a href="yourwebaddress.com" target="blank">Webaddress Name</a>

For images its similar but instead its <img src="imagewebaddress.jpg">

If you want to put the link and image together it would be like this: <a href="yourwebaddress.com"><img src="imagewebaddress.jpg"></a> The way to look at this section is when you write a link, and where you put in the text normally is where the image is now. It replaces that.



Check Out Our Image and Video Mentor. She explains the some of the same things I had explained above.

featured lens Image and Video Mentor

Welcome! I'm Linda Martin, your Image and Video Mentor here at Squidoo. I love working with images and know you will too once you have the right software and a few simple instructions. This lens lists sites where you can find free images on the web....

 

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Basic CSS

Some Information About Fonts 

featured lens Font Information

I Was thinking about fonts and how its important when it comes to any type of webpage or lens. When it comes to the letters, that in my book is a font. They all have different types and yes they do have names for them. That is what I am going to cove...

Check These Out For Color Options 

featured lens HTML and CSS Color Schemes

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featured lens The Guide to Colors On HTML

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featured lens HTML Tips for Color

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Borders and Rounded Corners 

Do You want to learn about adding borders around your boxes, this explains your options.






featured lens Borders and More

When it comes to HTML and CSS, sometimes we want to have borders around our text to spice up your pages. There are a variety of different types of borders. You have regular ones and then rounded ones. Please remember not everything works in all brows...

Bulleted Lists 

Have you ever wondered how to created bullet lists without using the text list module. This explains how its done.





featured lens Bulleted Lists

Bullet list are one of the things we use quite often when we want to highlight facts in a lens. Up until now we were not able to put boxes around bullet lists, but that is changing now. We have come up with a way to do it.

Adding Width and Background Color!!! 

To add width, you would have to do this: <p style="border: dotted 2px #000000;width:500px;"> You Should notice that there will be an ending of </p>If you want to add text to the inside the borders like I have done with this lense,you need to put the text in between <p style="border: dotted 2px #000000;width:500px;"> and this.</p>

If the text seems too close to the edge of the borders, you can move it farther away from the border by adding ;padding to it. This is what you would get with the previous examples. <p style="border: dotted 2px #000000;width:500px;padding; 5px"> As you can tell I used 5px as the padding.

The 500px is not set in stone. Experiment with the numbers and you should see what you get. The 2px you see is how thick the border is. You can play with that too.

To add background color you need to do this: <p style="border: dotted 2px #000000;width:500px; background: #FFCCCC">

To add text color to this you need to do this: <p style="border: dotted 2px #000000;width:500px; background: #FFCCCC;color: #FFFFFF;">

As you do all of this, look at the pattern on how this is done. You may not get everything right away, but as you do it more, you will start understanding how it is done. Basically all I had done was add width: 500px. The 500px does not have to be 500px. The number can be anything you want as long as you add the px right after it. Instead of using the 500px, you can always use percentages also. I usually use that on the top module here. Why? Different computers see things differently. A smaller screen will see one thing and a bigger screen will see another. If you set the width of 400px, it may drop down to the next line if you have a smaller screen and yet if you have a bigger screen, less chance of a new line. With percentage, it works with your screen and does not typically drop down to a new line like the fixed width. Fixed width is like 500px and fluid would be like 50%.

Backgrounds and Much More 

Here, I am discussing some of the fun things you can do with backgrounds.

featured lens Background Tips and Tricks

In the previous HTML and CSS lenses that I have created, I had talked about backgrounds and how to add it to your lenses. I know you were probably confused and thought maybe it only works with the borders as that seems to be the only place so far tha...

Alignment 

<p style="border: dotted 2px #000000;width:500px; float: right; font-size: 20px">

You notice that I added ;float:right

So if you want left you'd do this:;float:left

Padding and Margins 

You probably have seen some things on some lenses and have no idea how they did it. Padding is where you having padding on all sides around a area. Take some of the codes that you have learned before and add padding: 10px; That is all you have to do. Remember you can whatever number you feel is right. If you only one side, then you would put the side to padding like say you just wanted padding on the right, you would do padding-right: 10px;.

If you want to add margins, you would do something similar to the padding. Instead of adding padding, you would add margins instead.

Table Of Contents 

featured lens Make a Fancy Table of Contents

A clickable Table of Contents helps visitors navigate webpages. A table of contents also shows what's on a single webpage, which helps visitors decide whether your page is worth reading! A great table of contents within the first screen is a powe...

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featured lens CSS Codes: Easy Tutorial and Quick Reference Guide

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featured lens Advanced CSS: Layout Tricks and Lab Experiments

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featured lens Advanced HTML for Squidoo

The techniques shown here aren't much more advanced then what's in the Basic HTML tutorial. The code being used isn't any more special. But the results and presentation can appear to be more sophisticated. Hence it being the Advanced HTML tutorial. F...

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