WebTV HTML Tutorial



If your new to the web or been here a while and ever asked yourself, "How do they do that?", well this page was designed just for you. I'm going to give you the basics of HTML, which is the language web page builders use to make all the things on there pages appear. Basically it is a type of code you put in your e-mail signature box, or webpage to show an image, take you to another site, or play music. I will try to keep each separate so as not to confuse anyone. Since I am still learning myself I will put everything I know here and add anything new I learn when I am sure I've got it down pat. This tutorial is primarily designed for WebTV e-mail signatures, but can be used for building a webpage. Okay lets get started.



The first thing I recommend is learning how to C,C,& P which stands for Cut, Copy, and Paste. This will prove very valuable as you learn. Click HERE to learn how.



Okay on with the lessons. To start you must add the basic HTML tags which look like this. <HTML> and </HTML> everything else goes between these tags.

Next are the body tags which are <BODY> and </BODY>
so now we've got

<HTML>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Now what do we do? We can change the background color to a solid color by adding BGCOLOR= to the first <BODY> tag. Which should look like this.

<BODY BGCOLOR="color name, or code # here">

For a list of color choices click on the banner below. From here on out I will be using the colors from this page as my examples.

wtvjunky's webtv color chart



So what's next. Let's change the color of your text to go with your new background color. To do this we add TEXT= to the <BODY> tag. So your new <BODY> should look like this.

<BODY BGCOLOR="lightblue"TEXT="darkblue">

Alright, are you ready to try it out for real? Hopefully you have mastered C,C,&P it really will make this alot easier. Copy and paste this code in your e-mail signature box.

<HTML>
<BODY BGCOLOR="lightblue"TEXT="darkblue">
</BODY>
</HTML>

To get to your E-Mail signature box go to your WebTV homepage by pressing HOME on your keyboard. Then click on SETTINGS, MAIL, and finally SIGNATURE. On this screen paste the above code in the box in the center of your screen. Now send yourself an E-Mail to see if it worked. I know this may be alittle confusing at first but once you do it a few times it really does get easier.




1