Setting Up Your Profile Page - Basic HTML Tips

The editing tools in the gray bar above the text box in "edit" mode will do some of these basic operations for you. If you do not want to play around with HTML, we suggest that you stick with the basic functions already provided. This page just offers some insight into what is happening in the background of your page so that you have the option of playing with the content of your text boxes if you choose to do so. This page contains some very basic html tips to help you customize Text boxes on your profile page in this community. In order to type the code so that you can see it, we have to make some changes. Wherever you see a [ on this page, you should use a < on your page. Likewise, ] should be a > on your page.

 

Inserting a link to another webpage:

 

[a href="http://www.yourwebaddress.com"]text you want to show on your page[/a]

 

For example: [a href="http://www.insightsinstitute.net"]Insights Institute[/a] in the code looks like this

 

Insights Institute on your page.

 

Opening a link in a new page:

 

[a href="http://www.yourwebaddress.com" target="_blank"]text you want to show on your page[/a]

 

For example: [a href="http://www.insightsinstitute.net" target="_blank"]Insights Institute[/a] in the code looks like this

 

Insights Institute on your page and it will open a new browser window to display the Insights Institute home page.

 

Adding a picture to your page:

 

First, you have to put the picture somewhere on the web. You can put it on your website, on an ftp site, or on a picture site like Flickr. (If you have a picture on your website, just right click the picture and then select "Properties" to see the pictures web address.

 

Then, place this code in your text box: [img src="http://yourimageaddress"]

 

Using an image as a link:

 

[a href="http://www.yourwebaddress.com"][img src="http://yourimageaddress"][/a]

 

We will be adding more tips over time. We hope that this brief tutorial will at least help you get started.