Part four of five: Links & backgrounds
First we will touch upon the link, which is code that is very useful. It is simple, too. Wanna put a link to your best friend’s website in yours? Wanna make the link say “Please visit my best friend’s website!”? Type this in:
Now we will break down the code to help you better understand what its going on behind the scenes…
A href= – This tells the computer that this is a link, and that when it is clicked on it should take the visitor to the specified URL.
"http://www.awesomeanime.net/bestfriend.htm"> - This is the URL that the computer is being told to take a visitor to if the link is clicked upon. The closing bracket tells it that this part of the code is over.
Please visit my best friend’s website! – This is what the computer is being told the link should say.
< /a> - This is VERY IMPORTANT! This closes the link. If you don’t put this here, everything put below this code will become one giant link.
Moving on to backgrounds… Backgrounds come in two types: solid color and image. Solid color: What this does is pretty much self explanatory. Want a yellow background? This is what to do:
You don’t need to close this one, or the image background.
Image: This will display an image as your background. It will either make the image background tiled or centered, depending on its size. Say the image you want is at http://www.awesomeanime.net/images/snowbg2.jpg. This is the code for it:
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