Linking, Etc

I just posted some instruction to Rachel's last post, but I thought I'd repost them here.

To link to something follow these instructions:

Create a new post, then write your text. Highlight the keyword you want your link to point to, then click on the little button that looks like a circle with a little chain on it. It is just above where you would type the post, and sitting between the "i" button and the quotation marks.

When you click on that a little window will pop up. Paste the url you want to link to in that window and hit "OK"

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If you want to create a link within a comment follow these instructions:

Type your commment. In front of the word you want to have the link on type:

a href="http://www.midnitcafe.blogspot.com"

The items within the quotation marks would be the address to whatever website you want to link to.

Also there needs to be a "<>" (without the quotes)bookending the entire block of text. So, you would have it start with "<" and then type the coding and just after the quotes you would type another ">"

After that bit of coding would lie the word that is being linked.

After the linked word you end your html with ""

Sorry that's a bit confusing, but I don't know how to type the html completely without blogger taking it for real html and screwing up the look.

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To get a better understanding of what I just said, create a post and let blogger do the html for you. Then look at the coding blogger created and you'll see how it works.

the "<>" are coding marks to let the computer know you are creating html. At the end of all coding will be a similar tag like "" The slash tells the computer that the html is finnished.

A couple of other easy tricks are bold and italics.

They start with the same coding: "<>" to start and " to end. The words that should be bolded or italicized will go in between.

For bold you would type the letter "b" between the little brackets. For the ending brackets, type the letter after the slash.

For italics it is the same, except with the letter "i"

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Again sorry this may be confusing. If anyone (Jamison?) knows how to type html for instructional purposes and keep blogger from treating it like html let me know, or change this post.

Thanks, and I hope this helps.