Of course what I've been talking about only scratches the surface of CSS. Using the web inspector is a very helpful way of seeing what different CSS parameters are called, but here is a list of common ones relating to text:
font-family: the fonts used for a block of text or heading. Declaring multiple fonts is best to provide as many options as possible for the browser.
font-size: the size of the font in pixels.
line-height: the line height in pixels.
color: the color of something, declared in hex or as a basic color.
font-weight: bold or normal.
font-decoration: underline, overline, line-through or blink.
background-color: the background color defined in hex.
If you want to get further into CSS or there's something you want to do that isn't text related, check out the W3 Schools CSS reference - all the CSS code you could ever want and examples to see how they work.
font-family: the fonts used for a block of text or heading. Declaring multiple fonts is best to provide as many options as possible for the browser.
font-size: the size of the font in pixels.
line-height: the line height in pixels.
color: the color of something, declared in hex or as a basic color.
font-weight: bold or normal.
font-decoration: underline, overline, line-through or blink.
background-color: the background color defined in hex.
If you want to get further into CSS or there's something you want to do that isn't text related, check out the W3 Schools CSS reference - all the CSS code you could ever want and examples to see how they work.
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mhamilt
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Yes, although it gets a bit tricky. I'm not sure why you'd want to, the comments section on blogs is usually sufficient for user interaction. This plugin may help: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mingle-forum/
firstburn
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i have a blogg i left 4 yrs called breaststrokeforbegginers.wordpress.com because i could not put and adsense code to it. i think with this tutorial i might start using wordpress again.
Denisara
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firstborn - you could not put adsense codes into breaststrokeforbegginers.wordpress.com because you were using the free wordpress version (yoursite.wordpress.com). If you owned your site it would be yoursite.com. You can't monetize a free wordpress, or blogger etc. You have to 'own' your site to be able to do that.
SquidooSlfMstr
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Well written tutorial, Mark! Do you know if you do your site customization on the parent theme, do you lose all that when the theme owner makes updates? Is this why you would want a child theme?
Thanks again for doing this tutorial.
Charlie
Thanks again for doing this tutorial.
Charlie
