Pure Basic HTML Code for Writers

Every writer needs to be able to write a few very basic HTML codes.

HTML Versions of Articles

Sometimes an employer will specify that he wants H1 and H2 tags with specified text. You look a bit silly if you don’t know what a H1 tag is. What do you do if your employer wants the HTML version of your article?

If you have access to any WordPress Edit box, like the one I am typing in now, there is a simple simple way to do H1 and H2 tags. You paste your article into the Visual Editor, complete with Header 1 (H1) and Header 2 (H2) formatting from your word processor. You click the HTML tab and you see all the fancy HTML stuff that web browsers read.

You then Copy and Paste the text from the HTML tabbed page into a text editor like NotePad and send your HTML article off.

HTML Link Codes

Sometimes you will be offered the opportunity to put in your own link with anchor text.

I still have a crib sheet in NotePad that I alter every time I need this. all those inverted commas, < and > symbols blow my brain.

Here is your own crib sheet, just copy it and change it around. If you get it wrong just start again.

This is one of the links from my Escape Teaching Link to Us Page…

Let us help you to escape teaching

Here is the code that produces that link

Let us help you to <a href=”http://escapeteaching.com/” target=”_blank”>escape teaching</a>

The target=”_blank” just makes the link open in a new page, so someone is more likely to paste it into their website. In this example the anchor text is “escape teaching”.

Just replace http://escapeteaching.com/ with your own web page address. Replace the blurb at the start of the sentence with your own and use your own anchor text and you can build your own HTML links.