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Formatting Text
Let's start out by writing and formatting some text. This will be your first web page. Will this be your classroom homepage? Introduce yourself. Write some text. Practice formatting the text.
These Options Make Changes to the Whole Paragraph
We'll start with buttons that change the text.The pull down menu has different styles of text. Shown below are the PC version and the Mac version of the pull down menu:
Paragraph is the default standard of normal text.
Headings are split into 6 levels with 1 being the largest and 6 the smallest.
Bullet and Numbered Lists are useful to set off information.
NOTE: These styles change the whole paragraph where the cursor is blinking. Or the new paragraph you may have begun.
To indent only certain paragraphs, use the indent buttons and choose the appropriate button based on the arrow.
Note:You will notice very quickly that pressing the space bar twice does not give you two spaces. Also you cannot use the tab key. Don't get frustrated! HTML is limited so that the files are small and transfer quickly over the web. You just have to get used to it! Use indent instead of tab. Or, if you're in PageMill 3.0 on Windows and you really MUST have some extra spaces to make indent the first line of a paragraph, you can press CTRL+Spacebar to get extra spaces.
Aligning Text
To align the text, choose left, center, or right justification from the lined buttons. This changes the whole paragraph.These Options Make Changes from the Cursor On, or to Text That Is Selected
Thebuttons increase the font size by certain degrees. You cannot set the font to a particular font size because the browser settings determine the exact size of the font.
The
button turns on Bold,
turns on italics, and
turns on underline. Be careful when using the underline feature. Most people who browse the Internet expect something underlined to be a link. So only use it if you absolutely must. Also the
The text color button allows you to change the color of the text. (Note: on the Mac, choose Custom, then the Crayon Picker.)
© 2000 Instructions created by Janine Lim for Berrien County Intermediate School District and shared with AVLN by permission.
