Afternoon everyone,

Firstly, big hello to all the members and thanks for the helpful comments that have been left as I'm starting out. It's always encouraging to receive good feedback to improve review writing as it's a steep learning curve at times.

My question is in regards to editing my profile, I have no idea how to use HTML to change font, style or to load piccies. I keep seeing all these fantastic profiles with fantastic links to blogs, websites and other reviews but I am having a lot of trouble knowing how to properly use HTML - and I have spent a lot of time trying to access different info on here to no avail.

I will admit I am definitely not the most technological savvy of users but any helpful advice would be most welcome.

Thanks very much

Georgina - cheekyred23

Here's a thread on adding links..

http://www.epinions.com/msg/show_~threads/cat_id_~121/id_~5360/forum_id_~442/pp_~1/sec_~forums#posts

Profile pics:
http://www.epinions.com/msg/show_~threads/cat_id_~121/id_~3710/forum_id_~442

More Profile help..
http://www.epinions.com/msg/show_~threads/cat_id_~121/id_~6560/forum_id_~441/pp_~1/sec_~forums#posts


Fonts:
http://www.epinions.com/msg/show_~threads/cat_id_~121/id_~5373/forum_id_~441/pp_~1#33107

Ok..I'm tired of digging now. LOL!

I am certain that Rex or someone more knowledgable than I will be along to sum it all up in this thread for you ;)

Doc

Big thanks Doc for your prompt reply, I've noticed your assitance in many other threads so I appreciate it!

Will go and play with my profile now and see if I can make it look a bit more spiffy (hmmm spiffy is that a word people in the US use.... must be love of Brit culture coming out again!)

Thanks

Georgina

Though you've already played around with your profile a bit, here's a basic summary of the most common tags, just so it's all together in one place for anybody's future reference:


<a href=""> </a> - This is a link. Within the quotation marks is where you put the destination that you want the link to go to. Inbetween the two tags is where you place the text you want the webpage to display. If it is an external website (not on epinions.com), you must include the http:// for it to work properly. For instance <a href="http://www.google.com">Click here to visit google.com</a> would display Click here to visit google.com

<img src=""> - This is an image. All you need to do is put the URL of the image in the quotation marks. Like the tag for a link, you can add more things into the tag to make things more specific - such as width, height, border, and description.

<b> </b> - Bold text anyone? With this tag all you do is put the words that you want to be bold inbetween the two tags.

<i> </i> - Want italics? This is identical to how the bold text tags work.

<u> </u> - Underlined text. Works the same as above (but disabled on these message boards and in reviews).

<s> </s> - Although not too commonly seen, this tag crosses out text. I think by now you know how this type of thing works, but it too is disabled on these boards and in reviews.

<font> </font> - As is, this tag will do nothing. However, once you do something like <font size="5" face="arial" color="blue">Hello!</font> you'll get results.

<br> - Gives you a line break.

<li> - Meant for creating lists. Functions like a line break, but also inserts a bullet on the new line.

<p> </p> - Can be used to separate paragraphs, putting the text in the middle of those tags.


If you want more detail, some of those threads Doc already linked should take care of that.

thanks for the insight - I have been playing around with my profile - but always room for improvement.

Thanks for the advice

Georgina

I just wanted to say that I found the information in this thread very helpful, and thought that maybe it should be pinned as it provides some very useful information.

And of course I would also like to say thank you to those who provided some help regarding HTML.

Thanks.
Dan

Aww thanks lorace, I spent hours modifying my profile page.... eventually I got the idea.

I am now certifiably addicted to all those 'blog things' quizzes though... lol. hmmm what flavour candy am I???

Georgina