If you want to have a carriage return, go to the next line, use <br> and you can use as many as you want. If you want to start a new paragragh use <p> which is the same as two <br> tags but multiple uses of <p> doesn't do a thing. The attribute of link="?" in the body tag, web page only, will show that color when you use a hyperlink such as: <a href="URL_here">text here (<-----link color)</a> and the vlink color will appear when the viewer has already clicked on the anchor link. If you wish a different link color then the use something similar to the below:
<a href="URL_here">
<font color="#..." size="?">
text here
</font>
</a>.
For more on this subject click here and here.
The second tag in a signature box is always <body> inclusvive ot its attributes. Now then the <body> simply means that that is the name of the tag and showing the proper close. You may use whatever attributes of that tag you choose to.
First let's discuss what goes on a web page and then we'll do an email signature box since it is all basically the same HTML syntax.
All web pages should start like the below:
<<>html>
<<>head>
All of you meta tags would go here. No meta tags? then the search engines can not find your page based on the fact that you haven't registered your page.
<<>title>
Text goes here which will appear in the status or text window you see at the bottom of your TV screen
<<>/title>
<<>/head>
<<>body>...<<>/body>
This is where I always place my music command and the use of autostart="faster" is totally useless BTW and FYI.
If you wish to place a reload message that's says, "Reload this page because the WebTV JavaScript bug bit again." then type message like the below
<<>noframes>
message or image tags here and if an image is used then <<>center> it and close the tag
<<>/center>
<<>/noframes>
The below is what I used on this page
<<>html>
<<>head>
<<>meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
<<>title>
Basic HTML & Guidelines
<<>/title>
<<>/head>
<<>body bgcolor="#000000" text="#ffffff" link="#00ffff" vlink="gold" transition="slideright" logo="images/us_flag.gif" address="Click On Credits" credits="http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/menu.html">
<<>noframes>
<<>center>
<<>img width="544" height="60" border="0"
src="images/reload_bug.gif" alt="reload image">
<<>/center>
<<>/noframes>
Everything else goes after that and then last two tags of <<>/body> and <<>/html>.
The lone meta above automatically updates the page for the viewer, 99% of the time, if they have seen the page before with the latest and greatest changes without having to actually use Cmd + R. Since this page is a link from the Blue Fox Menu no other meta tags are necessary since that page is registered with about 10 search engines. Now after that everything is pretty much standard between a web page and what you would put in your email signature box with the exception of using absolute URL's in email and relative URL's on a web page.
The basic attributes you would add to your body tag besides bgcolor="..." and text="..." may be found here and here.
Once you center something whether you use <<>center>...<<>/center>, <<>div align="center">...<<>/div> or <<>p align="center"> everything thereafter will be centered until you close the centering command. Ergo using center then close, then something, then center then close and over and over just makes the browser do extra time consuming and totally unnecessary work.
It is best to use the dimensions of an image which will enhance the loading time like this: <<>img width="?" height="?" border="0" src="..." alt="describe image with a couple of words here"> and the alt, alternate, attibute is not necessary in email. I try to go that extra step even to find out the dimensions of each and every image. I have this testbed & finder on my F 7 key for finding images sizes among other things. Another tip is to read the answers in various newsgroups and then practice using a testbed (link is above).
Once you use an opening <<>table> command whatever font effects including but not limited to <<>b>, <<>font size="?"> or whatever are null and void so you should close them prior to the opening <<>table> command and after the last <<>/table> use them all over again (reopen them). Any and all tags are closed in the reverse order of usage.
So the basic email signature box would look something like the below:
<<>html>
<<>body bgcolor="pick_a_color" text="pick_a_color">
<<>bgsound src="sound_URL_here" loop="9" />
images, text, marquees or weather banner etc., etc., would go here separated with <<>br> tags
whatever you used above close in reverse order of usage
<<>/body>
<<>/html>
Here are a few HTML acronyms defined for you:
http -- hypertext transfer protocol
href -- hypertext reference
html -- hypertext markup language
The a in <<>a href=".."> stands for anchor and ends with a close of <<>/a>
Any command such as <<>b>..<<>/b> for bold or <<>center>...<<>/center> is called a tag or anything between <<> and >.
<<> is the less than sign while > is the greater than sign.
An URL, uniform resource locator, is the web address of any site, sound or image etc., etc. such as:
http://www.wtv-zone.com/bluefox/menu.html
Below you will find other tutorials to assist you:
Bgcolors, vlink and link Colors
Size Does Make A Difference