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Heading Tags
Search engines rank a site on the content of the heading of a paragraph,
rather than a body of text. Each section of your page should
have a heading tag, and the main text a paragraph.
In Dreamweaver, to achieve a heading tag, highlight the text of the heading.
Click the Format option in the Properties window (it is a good idea to keep
the properties window expanded so that all options are exposed). Scroll to heading
1 and click. The same process applies for subsequent headings, with ascending
numbers. Headings are always of default size.
To obtain paragraph tags, click the format option in the Properties window and
scroll to paragraph and click.
This is heading 1
The heading
has the tags <h1> </h1>
surrounding it.
This is heading
2
The heading
has the tags <h2> </h2>
surrounding it.
This is heading
3
Heading
3 is surrounded by the tags <h3>
</h3>
This is heading
4
Heading
4 is surrounded by the tags <h4>
</h4>
This is heading
5
Heading
5 is surrounded by the tags <h5>
</h5>
Please
note that all headings are in default size. They get progressively smaller in
size as they progress. The reason for this is that heading 1 is more important
to your search engine rank than heading 5.
This is
a paragraph. It is surrounded by the tags <p>
</p>.
Fonts
You can format your web page text however you like. There
are numerous pre-installed fonts and others can be downloaded from the net.
To change the font, highlight it, click on the scroll bar next to the yellow
A in the Properties window. Choose the font you want. To change the size, highlight
the text and click on the Size in the Properties tool bar. Select whatever size
you want.
Below, the tags found in the html surround the look and size of the font that
they code for.
<font size="1"
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> This is Arial, size 1. </font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif"> This is Verdana, size 2. </font>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"> This
is Times New Roman, size 3. </font>
<font size="4" face="Courier New,
Courier, mono">This is Courier New, size 4. </font>
<font size="5" face="Georgia, Times
New Roman, Times, serif">This is Georgia, size 5. </font>
<font face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif">This is Geneva, size none. </font>
Please note that size
none does not have any size reference in the html code at all.
To add
colour to the text, highlight the text. Click on the square to the left of the
size scroll bar. A range of colours will appear. Click on the desired colour
and your text will become that colour.
<font
size="2" font color="#0000CC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif"> This text is
Verdana, size 2 and is blue </font>
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