Creating a Character Web Page

[Rosuav]

First point: HTML is not difficult to learn.

Start with a basic skeleton with your general framework, and start tinkering - it's just plain text. Here's a barebones HTML file (please folks, don't flame me for not including content-type and whatnot - I did say barebones):

{HTML}
{HEAD}
{TITLE}Rosuav Esstu, Insanity Extraordinaire{/TITLE}
{/HEAD}
{BODY}
{P}This is where you would put the text of what you have to say about your character.

{P}Each P marker makes a new paragraph of text.

Blank lines don't mean anything, this is the same paragraph as the above line.
{P}
Some people like to put the P marker in between the paragraphs. It really doesn't matter mattermattermattermatter.
{/BODY}
{/HTML}

Note that since the forums software parses HTML, I've changed all the angle brackets into braces. It should be all <> and not {}.

What's between the TITLE and /TITLE tags becomes the document title - very important. Google for "html title" and you can find some pages explaining why it's important to set it well, and how to set it well.

In between BODY and /BODY is the main text. Start by just putting your text in, as paragraphs, with each paragraph preceded by a {P}. (There's other ways to conceptualize it; it's all the same really.)

Ahh but you want to format it, don't you! Well, then you add a few other tags. Start with basic ones like {B} and {U} for Bold and Underlined. Then google for "html primer" and start having fun! There's heaps you can do, but not a lot that you have to.

Hope that helps. If you have other questions post, or PM me.