HTML

HTML is the language of the World Wide Web, and you might use it when you are making your own web page or posting to WSO Discussions. See Wikipedia:HTML for a lot more information, or read on for a few helpful hints.

Basic HTML

Some HTML tags

<b>This is bold.</b>

<i>This is italicized.</i>

<blockquote>This will offset text, like a quotation.</blockquote>

<font color="red">This will make your font red.</font>

<font face="Comic Sans MS">This will change your font.</font>

<font size="5">This will make your text big.</font>

<a href="http://wso.williams.edu">This links to WSO.</a>

Some examples

The lines above will appear as follows:

This is bold.

This is italicized.

This will offset text, like a quotation.

This will make your font red.

This will change your font.

This will make your text big.

This links to WSO.

More advanced guides

• Introduction to HTML - intro to HTML from the World Wide Web Consortium
• The Blooberry Guide - XHTML guide
• CSS Cheatsheet - info on Cascading Stylesheets.

There are several other guides available for learning anything from basic to advanced HTML.