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How to use HTML When Sending Safelist Ads - Part 2Okay Everyone,This is where the rubber meets the road. Well maybe not... 
We have yet another tag to discuss before we can continue with actually formatting an HTML message. We went over the various tags that we can use in our HTML coding in Part 1. I want to introduce you to another type of tag that I did not go over in Part 1. It is called an Anchor tag... <A> </A> This tag works very much the way the URL tag works here in the forums, but there is a bit of difference. Using anchor tags, you can make banners, images, and text clickable. You need to know the way to use anchor tags so please be patient as I go through this. Anchoring text is very important when using HTML in any text formating. You may be writing an article and want to link a particular phrase to a website or you may have some catchy wording that you simply want to catch people's eyes and have them click on it. Here is how to accomplish that... this is what is referred to as hyerlinking or creating a hyperlink. Let's say you have an article that you are placing in a blog someplace and that article is about... hmmm, let's see... Oh! For Plan4Power! I used the bulletin board code to do that, but HTML code will do the same thing for you in your blog whereas bulletin board code will not always be the standard. You need to know the structure of the coding in order to make it work successfully for you in HTML. Here is the structure... <a href="http://plan4power.org/?leonh">Plan4Power!</a> I made the Plan4Power appear bold so you can do that too simply by using the <B> tag for the word or words you want to be bold. <a href="http://plan4power.org/?leonh"><b>Plan4Power!</b></a> So what is that funny "href" thing in the code? It is the attribute used to tell web browsers to hyper reference what follows the > and before the closing tag. This is a very important attribute too. So, remember to use it in all of your anchoring efforts! Another important thing to remember is all web pages used with anchoring need to be enclosed in quotation marks. Let's say you have a banner that you want to link to a site that you are promoting. Hopefully, that banner will be for Plan4Power and you want to have people sent to your Plan4Power referral page when they click the banner. Remember that you have to use the "href" attribute in HTML coding of this type. An example of the structure of an anchor for a banner is as follows:
Here is a working anchor tag for the banner I use to promote Plan4Power if you want to just copy and paste the code into the site where you want to use it. Remember to change the referral ID.
Note: I used the code boxes to show the complete formatting I was not sure how it would look to you since it was broken up in the text editor of this forum. The banner is shown below: 
Okay, that is it for now. We will really get into the nuts and bolts of formatting an HTML message in the next part... I promise. Peace, |
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