How to Add Pizazz (HTML Code) to Your Blogger Comments

The Books for Walls Project is definitely about books. But did you know the project is also an effort to help The Four of Us learn about the internet, website management and all about blogging? Oh, have we learned a lot in this last year! 

Recently, a reader asked, "how do you make those handy links and italicize book titles like The Mom does? I want to do that too!" Learning to add simple html code to blog comments can be easy and make comments that much more fun to read. So, The Mom stayed up late creating these directions (note the time on the sample post, she broke her "off the computer by 10" resolution.)  

 Add a little pizazz to your next comment 

just follow these simple directions!

To make text bold:

Add a b tag to your text like this:

 C'est voila, your text will be BOLD:

The Big Sister and The Little Sister

To italicize:

Add an i tag to your text like this:

Like magic, your text will slant:

I Love Books! And The Books for Walls Project!

Create a hyperlink:

First plug in your URL and TEXT into this little code equation:

 For example plug in these:

 URL: http://www.booksforwallsproject.org

 TEXT: The Books for Walls Project     

 Like this:

And if you do A+ work you should have a functioning hyperlink, like this:

The Books for Walls Project

Use these simple directions and your blog comments can go: 

From this:

 with a little code magic:

 To This (Drum roll, please!):

Now go ahead try what you've learned! Take a Challenge! How about one of these:

• The Literary BFF Challenge
• Get in Touch with Your Inner Dummy Challenge

• The First Line/Last Line Challenge

  
  
  Don't forget to come back on Wednesday for the latest Challenge!
  **Please note: The Mom is no computer expert, if you notice 
  any omissions or errors, let us know!