HTML 101

If you how to HTML, then you may not need to read this completely. All I need for you to do to your stories is the paragraph breaks, if you want to add bold or italics, you have to add that too. Any links, e-mail, or chapter and page, will not be needed. I can do that for you depending on how long your story is.

If you are completely HTML ignorant, no need to panic. It's fairly easy once you get the hang of it, just takes a bit of time. I can HTML a 10 page story in about 10 minutes using copy and paste. So no big work here. Here are some basic symbols you can use:

<br>: Break Symbol, stops the line, or inserts a blank line. If you use two of these in a row you can end your paragraph and have a blank line before your next paragraph. As far as I can tell there are not "tabs" in HTML, so blank lines are the best way to go for breaking paragraphs. I uses this break for all my stories and it works really well. If you submit your stories with just this, that'll be just fine.

<p>: Paragraph Symbol, stops the line and inserts a blank line, very easy just plop one of these after each paragraph and I'll be a happy camper :-)

<i>...</i>: Italics- Italic text, symbol without the slash starts the italics, symbol with the slash ends it. This is an added extra. If you want italics in your story, please add them yourself.

<b>...</b>: Bold Type- same as the italics, no slash is on, slash is off. Another added extra, if you want it, you can use it.

<u>...</u>: Underlining- Same as both Italics and Bold, see above. Another extra to be used as you wish.

Ninety percent of the html in this Archive is done with these symbols, so you don't need to be an expert to do some cool tricks, just creative! As for colors, graphics, links, ect. unless it ties *directly* to the story I'm trying to discourage it. For you expert HTML'ers out there, please keep it simple, though I can understand what you are trying to do, some browsers may not. One thing I have learned about various browsers, it doesn't like some types of html. If you have any questions, or tips, or different html codes that can help myself or others drop me a line at shadowwing55@hotmail.com.

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HTML 101