MSN TV ~ Customizing Your Emails
Part 6 - Fonts




You can create some really great effects with your text, just by using a few simple codes. You can change the size of your text, you can create an embossed effect, a relief effect, a shadow effect, and, change the color of your text.



"Font Tags" are used to control font effects. The tags are contained within brackets. There is an opening Font Tag which looks like this <<>font<>> and there is a closing Font Tag preceded with a backslash / which looks like this <<>/font<>>



Font sizes range from 1 to 7.

The opening font tag controls each of the seven font sizes, and looks like this:


<<>font size="1"<>>
<<>font size="2"<>>
<<>font size="3"<>>
<<>font size="4"<>>
<<>font size="5"<>>
<<>font size="6"<>>
<<>font size="7"<>>



The opening font tag is positioned before the first character of text, and, the closing font tag is positioned after the last character of text. So, whatever text you type in between the opening and closing font tags will be under the control of the opening font tag.

EXAMPLE: This code

<<>font size="7"<>>"COOL"<<>/font<>>

will produce the following results:

"COOL"



The "relief" effect looks like this:

"COOL"


And the code looks like this:

<<>font size="7" effect="relief"<>>"COOL"<<>/font<>>



The "emboss" effect looks like this:

"COOL"


And the code looks like this:

<<>font size="7" effect="emboss"<>>"COOL"<<>/font<>>



The "shadow" effect looks like this:

"COOL"


And the code looks like this:

<<>font size="7" effect="shadow"<>>"COOL"<<>/font<>>




Text colors can be changed like this:

COOL EFFECTS

And the code looks like this:

<<>font size="7" color="#0099ff"<>>COOL
<<>font color="#660099"<>>EFFECTS<<>/font<>>




Let's put all of the previous HTML TAGS and BODY TAGS together with the FONT TAGS to form a typical string of HTML coding, to give you an idea of how they all fall into place. You'll notice that the background color is black, the text color is blue, and the quote is gray with an "emboss" effect. The result of the code below, is just an example of how these lines of text will appear in an email.



THE CODE:


<<>html<>>
<<>body bgcolor="#000000" text="#0099ff"<>>
Below is one of my favorite quotes from J.L.Davis. You can use your favorite quotes in your email signatures, or maybe just a short line of text such as: "See ya later, Lefty."
<<>font size="5" color="#222222" effect="emboss"<>>
"BECOME AWARE OF ALL THAT SURROUNDS YOU, AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN YOU." ~ J.L.DAVIS ~
<<>/font<>>
<<>/body<>>
<<>/html<>>




THE RESULT:


Below is one of my favorite quotes from J.L.Davis. You can use your favorite quotes in your email signatures, or maybe just a short line of text such as: "See ya later, Lefty."


"BECOME AWARE OF ALL THAT SURROUNDS YOU, AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN YOU." ~ J.L.DAVIS ~



The above code is ready to be placed into the empty signature box. If it isn't empty, CLICK HERE to review the necessary steps to empty it. Use your "back" key to return to this page. You may use my favorite quote (above), or use one of your own. And, you can further personalize your email signatures by changing the color schemes, the text size, and the font effects. Experiment and have fun!


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