"How to" Guideline series is coordinated by Helen Mongan-Rallis of the Education Department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions to improve these guidelines please me at e-mail hrallis@d.umn.edu.

Using Some Simple HTML Code to Enhance Web Crossing

Purpose: If you are using an online discussion forum such as Web Crossing and want to enhance your posts to make it easier for readers of your message, these tips may help you: .

How to Create a Link to a URL in Web Crossing

This will enable you to share a URL with others so that they can click on it and link directly to it (ie: if you want to create a link)

1. Type the following: <a href="
2. Following the " you should then type URL of the webpage to which you want to link followed by "> (better still, rather than typing the URL, copy it from your browser and paste it in here -- that way you avoid making a typing error in the address). For example: <a href="http://www.d.umn.edu/%7Ehrallis/guides/index.html">
3. Next type the words that you want to become a link. For example: <a href="http://www.d.umn.edu/%7Ehrallis/guides/index.html"> Helen's Technology Guidelines
4. Finally, at the end of the words you want to become the link, you need to add </a>
5. The completed code will look as follows:
   
   <a href="http://www.d.umn.edu/%7Ehrallis/guides/index.html">Helen's Technology Guidelines</a>
6. What it will look like to others when they read what you have written in WebCrossing, however, will be: Helen's Technology Guidelines

How to Change Font Style

1. To have a word appear in bold: Type <b> immediately before the word, and </b> immediately after it. For example, <b>I want this to be in bold</b> will show up as follows: I want this to be in bold
2. To have a word appear in italics: Type <em> immediately before the word, and </em> immediately after it. For example, <em>I want this to be in italics </em> will show up as follows: I want this to be in italics
3. To have a word appear as underlined: Type <u> immediately before the word, and </u> immediately after it. For example, <u>I want this to be underlined </u> will show up as follows: I want this to be underlined

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