philosophy

Making your philosophy free site look better

 

You'll have noticed that the example site looked a bit bland and wasn't that easy to read. To make things easier on your visitors you can put your text in tables and add a splash of colour. Geocities has their own table-maker. It lets you choose whether you want your table centered (in the middle of the page), the number of rows and columns, the cell padding (how much room there is between your text and the edge of the table), the width (how much of the screen it covers) and the background colour. Once you've made your choices you can press a button and the html code will appear - simply copy and paste.

This is what I just selected

<TABLE WIDTH="80%" BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC" ALIGN="center" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="20" BORDER="0">
<TR>
<TD>1</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

See where it says <TD>1</TD everthing you write in between those two tags will appear in the table. So if you delete the '1' and replace it with the html code (between the <body> tags) of the index.htm page of my Sarte example site you'll have this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>

<title>making it all look a bit nicer</title>

</head>

<body>
<TABLE WIDTH="80%" BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC" ALIGN="center" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="20" BORDER="0">
<TR>
<TD><h1>The philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre</h1>

<p>Jean-Paul Sartre is probably the best known existentialist philosopher in the world. On this website I going to take a close look at his most accessible work "Existentialism is a Humanism". This short work is actually the transcript of a speech he made at Club Maintenant in Paris. I've chosen this work because it gives us a relatively painless introduction to Sarte's existentialist philosophy.</p>

<p>This site is made up of three sections. First of all I've included a brief biographical sketch of John Paul Sartre. Secondly, and this is the bulk of the site, I've included an essay on Existentialism is a Humanism. Thirdly, I added a links page to other sites that are of interest.</p>

<p><a href="bio.htm">Sartre biography</a></p>
<p><a href="existentialism.htm">Essay on Existentialism is a Humanism</a></p>
<p><a href="links.htm">Sartre links</a></TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

</body>
</html>

And the resulting webpage will look like this which is more presentable and readable than our original.

 

Learning more html tags for your philosophy site

 

There are many more tags you can learn here's a few you can try right now.

<b> </b>
everything between these tags will be bold
<i> </i>
everything between these tags will be in italics
<h2> </h2>
will give you a sub-heading (goes down to <h6>)
<hr>
 will draw a line across the page

Visit htmlgoodies.com for some excellent html tutorials. You can copy & paste most of the example code in the tutorials, it's a great way to learn.

You should now be able to make your own free site on Geocites. Visit my website resources page for a sample template you can copy and paste into your site to speed things up a bit.

 

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