| To change text color, background color or add images, it is preferable to put the codes for this in your email signature box. If you put the codes in the letter part of your email, the settings will be lost once you've sent it. To get to the signature box, go to your email. Select Settings from the sidebar menu. Select Signature. Now, you are ready to put in your codes. The html used for customizing your email is somewhat different than for Pagebuilder in some ways. You do not usually need to begin with [html] (replace the brackets with arrows) in Pagebuilder for the codes to work. This is not true for your email signature box. You must always have the html tag at the very beginning of your signature box every time you want to use codes in there. The main difference is the code for text color. Instead of using the font tag to change text color, we need to use the body tag like this: The html tag goes at the very beginning of the letter section. We can change the email background by adding the bgcolor attribute like this: Instead of color names for your text color and background color, it is preferrable to use a 6 digit color code called hexidecimal code, since all computer users can see colors in that code. See, Beth's Hexidecimal Color Chart for universally used color codes. You just need to add a pound sign # in front of each 6 digit code like #FFFFFF. You can, also, put in an image background in your email. You need to first find the image that you want as a background and upload it to your scrapbook. You may need to create a webpage to activate your scrapbook, if you haven't already. See the helpful links above for a selection of scrapbook uploaders to use. Once, it is in your scrapbook, you can create a webpage for images and put your background image on that webpage. You will need to publish it. You will be taken to a page, where there is an URL to your webpage that you can click on to go directly to that page. Click on that URL. Press your goto key. Press the "show current" button on the goto key. Now, press cmd and A at the same time. Next, press cmd and C at the same time. Now, go to Expert HTML Source Viewer. Erase the URL in the input box and press cmd and V at the same time. Scroll way down to the bottom. Press "view images". Near the top will be a pull down menu with the URL's of the images from that page. Click on each URL until you the image that you want appears in the display above. Click on the URL under the image display. Press your goto key. Then, press the "show current" button on the goto key. Then, press cmd and A at the same time. Next, press cmd and C at the same time. Then, go to your email signature box and press cmd and V and put that URL in with these codes: You need the bgcolor, also, so that you can see the text, while you are writing. Replace the AnyColor for any color that you want for the bgcolor and text for any color that you want to use for the text color. Your background image will only appear in the sig portion, while writing your email, but will fill the entire email when sent. Another thing that people like to do with their emails is to realign their text and images. I use tables to do this. Then, I put the rest in data cells, going across in a row, like a book shelf with sections in it. To realign an image or some text to the right, we would use: It seems to be necessary to use the div tags with tables, now, to keep the tables from scrunching to the left. |