Changing the appearance of your text

Lesson 3

Now that we have your sentences on your page, and they are both centered, lets make the first sentence red.

To make a sentence a different color you have to know the color code.

Here's how to find the color code for a specific color.

Open Paint Shop Pro. Make a new image and select your flood fill tool. Set either your background or foreground to solid color.

Select the color that you would like your text to be.

On the bottom of your color window the html code for that color is displayed. Check it out. Select red.

At the bottom you will see #FF0000...see it?

The html code for any color will be displayed in the same location. Simply copy that color code.

Back to our notepad

Here is the text for the first sentence as it is currently on our page

<p align=center>This is my first sentence

Now that we plan on changing the appearance, we must add opening and closing font tags. Place the opening font tag just before the first word of your sentence and the closing font tag at the end of your sentence

<p align=center><font>This is my first sentence</font>

Now we have told our code that we intend to do something with the font but we have not told it WHAT we intend to do. We must add a statement to the font tag to instruct it to make the text red. The statement that we need to add is color=#FF0000

Your font tag should now look like this

<font color=#FF0000>

Save and refresh. If your first sentence is red now, DANCE!

Please make the second sentence BLUE.

PSST the color code for blue is #0000C0

Save and refresh. If you now have one red sentence and one blue sentence...DANCE!