Although this may seem complicated at first, this system is very easy to remember and can easily be mastered! <?> in front of the text and </?> to stop the particular formatting. The ? is replaced with b, u, i, li, blockquote, or H1 through H3.

The main thing to remember is while working on entering info on your POST page, you will see special characters that format your text. Visitors will not see these characters, but only the effects of the characters. Some browsers do not allow the buttons to work that are above your POST information, so you can learn how to manually dress up your POST on this page. (Normally, you can highlight your text and then click the appropriate button to make a formatting change, which will automatically add the characters for you.)

One basic thing to remember when using formatting commands: there needs to be a command in front of the affected text and a command to tell it to stop the formatting after the text. All commands have a left and right arrow (< >) around the command. A slash ( / ) is always in front of the command that is used to tell it to stop.

So.....

The following would show the word "bird" as bold:

The <b>bird</b> flew.

The following would show the word "bird" as underlined:

The <u>bird</u> flew.

The following would show the word "bird" as italicized:

The <i>bird</i> flew.

The following would show two sentences bulleted:

You can indent a sentence, word, or paragraph with this: (Everything will stay indented (words, lines, paragraphs) until you use the </blockquote> to stop the indentation.)

<blockquote>The bird flew.

The cat ran.</blockquote>

Size of text can also be changed with H1, H2, H3. H1 is the largest, but will make it light gray text. H2 is the next largest and will make the text blue. H3 is just a little bit bigger than normal text and will be bold black. Here is the method for using header commands to make bigger text:

You can use a combination of commands: (only use the ones you need) In this example, it would indent, bold, italic, underline, bullet, and make bigger blue text for the sentence:

Although not usually needed if you leave spaces between your sentences or paragraphs in your POST editing box, you can manually tell a sentence/paragraph to begin a new paragraph with this:

The bird flew.<p>