Beginner's Circle

If you want to copy and paste all the text on a page, press cmd and A at the same time. Then, press cmd and C at the same time to copy. Go to the place, where you want to paste and press cmd and V at the same time. If you are trying to copy from a textarea box, put your cursor in the textarea box and then press the Edit Key. Then, press Cmd and A at the same time. Next, press cmd and C at the same time. Go to where you want to paste and press Cmd and V.

If you want to copy and paste a selected portion of text, put the cursor at the beginning of the text you want to copy. If you can't put the cursor at a specific point, then use your Find Key. Enter the first word or code that you want to copy. Press return. This will highlight the first occurance of that word on that page. If that's not the one that you want, press Cmd and G until you reach the first word of the text that you wish to copy. If you go past, where you want to copy and paste, you can press Cmd and B to go back one occurance of the word. Ok, now the cursor is at the first word, so use the shift and right arrow key to highlight the selected text. When the text that you want is highlighted, press cmd and C at the same time. Now, go to where you want to paste it, such as a webpage or email, and press cmd and V at the same time.

If you want to get the URL from a website, hit your goto key. Press "show current". Then, press cmd and A at the same time. Now, press cmd and C at the same time. Now, go to where you want to paste the URL and press cmd and V at the same time.
If you want to find the URL of a midi or wav, you can go to the website, where the song is Put your cursor on the song title. Hit return. Hit the goto key. Press the "show last" on the goto key. Press cmd and A to select all. Now, press cmd and C. Go to your destination for the midi or wav URL and press cmd and V.

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> in Pagebuilder for the codes to work.

This is not true for your email signature box. You must always have the html tag (<html>) 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:

<body text=green></plaintext> You cannot change the font size in the signature box, however. For that you would have to put it in the letter section of the email that you are sending out like this: <plaintext></plaintext> 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: <plaintext><body bgcolor=blue text=green></plaintext> The order of the attributes bgcolor and text do not matter within the body tag.    Instead of color names for your text color and background color, it is preferable to use a 6 digit color code called hexidecimal code, since all computer users can see colors in that code. See, <a href="http://www.geocities.com/webtvbeth/hexchart.html">Beth's Hexidecimal Color Chart</a> 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 find the image that you want as a background and upload it to your scrapbook. There are some webpages that specialize in free background graphics like <a href="http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/texture/">Textures</a>. Sometimes,you can get an isolated image and upload it to your scrapbook. Otherwise, you will need to extract the image before uploading it to your scrapbook. Either way, you can use <a href="http://www.webscissors.com/">Webscissors</a> to upload the image to your scrapbook. Just take the the URL of the webpage or image to Webscissors. Then, erase the http:// and put the URL in input box. Press return. You will see all the images from that page in the next screen. Press the "import" link to upload the image to your scapbook. Now, in order to use this image as a background, you will need to find your scrapbook URL. Wou will need to create a webpage and put your background image on that webpage. Now, publish that webpage. You will be given an URL for that page. Click on the URL link and use your goto key to get the URL of the published webpage or write down the URL. Then, go back to <a href="http://www.webscissors.com/">Webscissors</a>. Erase the http:// and put in the published webpage URL. Press return. You'll see a listing of all images that you placed on that page. Go to the image that you're trying to get the scrapbook URL for. Now, click on the "show details" link. The URL for that image will be listed near the top of the page. Click on the URL link. 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: <plaintext><body background="URL of image" bgcolor=AnyColor text=AnyColor></plaintext> 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: <plaintext><div align=center><table width="100%"><tr><td align=right>image or text here</td></tr></table></div></plaintext> It seems to be necessary to use the div tags with tables, now, to keep the tables from scrunching to the left.</td></tr></table></center><hr width="100%"><center><a href="/Angelaruth49/Print_Version/ZPrintCircle.html">Back To Index Page</a></center> </BODY> </HTML>