Helpful Posting Tips
I’m so thankful that we’re introducing the power of blogging to many “n00bs” in the Hollywood community. A few of you have been frustrated with the way that Wordpress likes to format posts. So here a few tips to help you write the posts that you want.
1. When using the “Visual Editor” Wordpress will add HTML tags as you type to get the formatting the way it thinks you want. So if you do all your writing in this editor you’ll end up with something close to what you were intending.
2. When you use and external editor, like Word, and then copy and paste your code, you may want to add tags to help out the formatting.
3. Useful HTML tags:
To mark a block of text as a paragraph use the paragraph tag:
<p>This is my paragraph</p>
Notice that the tag must close itself with the </p> this is used in most HTML tags.
To make a link, first you have to anchor the link with
<a>text</a>
Then you add the link to the first anchor tag like this
<a href="http://link.to.site/">text that you want to be a link</a>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Integer turpis sem, sagittis in, malesuada ut, hendrerit ac, lacus. Cras at tellus.
Ut eget ligula sit amet ante aliquet nonummy. Sed dignissim tempor nisi. Curabitur laoreet consectetuer nibh. Ut sollicitudin vestibulum mauris.
This was done with the following code:
<div style="width:200px;height:50px;float: right;border-top: 2px dotted #000; border-bottom: 2px dotted #000; padding: 5px;">4. Highlighting a specific piece of text can be accomplished with some inline styles.</div>
If you’d like the text to float to the left, just change the float: right to float: left.
5.Wrap text around your images by adjusting the <img> tags:
For right alignment -
<img style=”margin: 0 0 2px 2px; float: right;” src=”file_name_here” />
For left alignment -
<img style=”margin: 0 2px 2px 0; float: left;” src=”file_name_here” />
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Integer turpis sem, sagittis in, malesuada ut, hendrerit ac, lacus. Cras at tellus.
Ut eget ligula sit amet ante aliquet nonummy. Sed dignissim tempor nisi. Curabitur laoreet consectetuer nibh. Ut sollicitudin vestibulum mauris.
Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Suspendisse ultricies, leo ut porta rhoncus, magna eros adipiscing enim, ac suscipit mi diam vitae sem.
6. The best way to learn is to play. You can make your own webpages with a simple text editor and try them out in your browser to see what works and what doesn’t. I’m also available if you’d like me to go through your post before you publish it and try to iron out the little quirks that can pop up in making html.
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