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Pretty fonts in YG

Page history last edited by ElizabethHS 10 years, 6 months ago

 

Return to YAHOO HELP FILES

 

Pretty fonts in YG and other basic HTML

 

NOTE: The old Yahoo Groups can accept basic HTML in the About page. The new YG allows only a few basic tags.

 


 

NEW YAHOO GROUPS INTERFACE

1. To create changes on your front page, first go to the >Management tab and select >Control Panel  to begin editing (Figure 1).

 

Figure 1.

 

2. Edit the tags in the Group Description page (Figure 2). You can also change the title and Web address (see Settings in YG).

 

Figure 2.

 

 

USING TAGS FOR FONT STYLES

 

You can create some interesting fonts on your YG front page by using simple tags like those below:


 

Font Styles 

 

 <b>your text</b> to create bold font

Result: your text

 

 

<i> your text </i> to make italic font

Result: your text

 

Combine the two (in either order) to make bold italic: <b><i> your text </b></i>

Result: your text

 

    Here are some more examples of ways to emphasize text (some may not be acceptable to Yahoo): W3Schools/formatting

 

 

Colors

 

There are 16 named colors that Yahoo accepts (e.g., red, green, blue, etc.); the others will need an RGB statement in the code, so it's easier to stick to the basic ones. Here is the list of basic colors: <http://www.utexas.edu/learn/html/colors.html>

 

Use <font color="red"> your text </font> to make, for example, red-colored font":

Result: your text

 

Again, you can combine font color with bold and/or italic.  Just be sure to put the tag closing with a back slash: </>.

 

    Here are a list of other color names, most of which will probably work in Yahoo at W3Schools/color_names.

 

 

Paragraph Spacing

 

You can simply use the Enter/CR to create a new paragraph.

 

 

Hot Links for URLS 

 

The new Yahoo Groups do not accept hot links or active URLs on the front page.

 

However, you can put the link or URL address and color it blue to indicate where participants can find your wiki, e.g.,

  tinyurl.com/EVO-CfP-2014

 

You can also store all links in the >Links area of your YG (accessed through the >More tab. This means only Members will be able to access your links.

 

 

Be sure to use the closing tag (with a </>) to ensure that you don't run on with colors or font settings. If you experiment a little, it will become clear what works. Let the Coord Team know if you need more help.

 

 

 

 

3. Be sure to >Save before continuing (Figure 3). Don't delete the group!

 

Figure 3.

 

MORE ABOUT HTML

 

For a brief and easy introduction to HTML programming, see Vance's e-Zguide to creating simple HTML files.

 

 


EVO is a project of TESOL's CALL-IS

updated 21 September 2013 by E. Hanson-Smith

 

 

 

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