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Bullet lists and BOX button.
The BOX button is in the edit window. This window appears after clicking Edit+col3 for example. SEE BOX AT BOTTOM OF PAGE
HTML BULLET LISTS, Line breaks, Paragraphs, Plexel 'BOX' button --------------------------------------------------------------- In regard to your Kittens page you have tried to do a bullet list for 'Major Milestones'. There are built in HTML tags to do this. Please scroll down the manual to 'Lists', then you will see the OL (ordered list) and UL (unordered list) tags. Click UL. Now see that you can use circles, discs or squares as the 'bullets', discs is the default. So to amend your text as follows:- <B>Major Milestones in a Kitten's Development Process Include:</B><BR><P> <UL> <LI>The ability to use a litter box <LI>Hunting & defence skills <LI>Social skills <LI>Self-grooming techniques <LI>Good eating habits. </UL> If you want numbers you could use:- <OL> <LI>The ability to use a litter box <LI>Hunting & defence skills <LI>Social skills <LI>Self-grooming techniques <LI>Good eating habits. </OL> There are many other ways to do lists for example with squares or large circles, you can even indent lists within lists. All of this is documented in the manual. The <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> tag might be useful for indenting a block of text, but I never use it. For example:- <BLOCKQUOTE> Because the first months of a kitten's life greatly affect its physical and mental growth, special care should be taken to ensure their healthy development. </BLOCKQUOTE> I see you are typing very long lines but it doesn't matter in HTML if you start a new line. For example:- 'Because the first months of a kitten's life greatly affect its physical and mental growth, special care should be taken to ensure their healthy development.' is the same in HTML as if you typed it all on one line, also it is more readable since you don't have to scroll right in the edit window. HTML wraps text automatically and only uses <BR> and <P> for forced line breaks. I have gone through the Kittens page taking out all the long lines just so you can see what I mean since this is faily important. I have uploaded the Kittens page so could you please download it by going (in Plexel with the Plexel buttons showing) to your offline 'Kittens' page and click Paste + Download Display page. Then use Edit + Col2 to see what I mean. Notice that all the text is now visible without scrolling. I use the term 'offline' to mean that you are looking at the Kittens page from your hard disc rather than the one online at pusscats.com that the public can see. Please don't try and learn all the HTML tags, it may depress you there are so many. I just use the few I know that are essential and seem to get away with it. A lot of them are not much use, on the other hand I have never really investigated at all of them so if you think it might be worth it by all means have a good look. In the HTML manual click the 'Alphabetical Tag List' link at the top and you can see a list of tags which is very useful if you are looking for more info about a tag for which you know the name. I notice you have <BR><P> at the end of some lines. This will make no difference to having just <P> since in HTML it will not normally add more than one blank line. Even <P><P><P><P> is the same as <P>. If you want a lot of blank space you need to do something like this <P> <P> <P> is the HTML code for a blank space that cannot be ignored. You will also notice that multiple spaces between words are rendered as a single space, e.g. 'The cat sat on the mat' is rendered the same as 'The cat sat on the mat' but 'The cat sat on the mat' has the extra blanks. Could you try and work through the points in my other email titled 'Re: Hi John' like doing the summary and so on, except ignore the ask jeeves boxes point 6 for the moment. Let's work towards getting these few pages right then you can move on. There is still quite a lot to cover. BOX --- Try making a box, it is quite easy. Click Edit + col2 for Kittens. The edit window comes up. Now highlight some text, and copy it to clipboard using CTRL+C then click 'Box'. Click OK to all the prompts, finally nothing happens I know but in fact Plexel has changed the clipboard. If you now click somewhere at the bottom of the edit window and do CTRL+V Plexel should paste out a load of HTML. Now do Save and Back and you should see a box at the bottom of col2. You can also make complex tables using the Tbl button. There is some help on this. Click Help in the Plexel bar and you can see the sort of table it can produce. I don't think this is needed really though. Plexel often uses the clipboard for you to give it information. If you don't understand this bit please ask since it is quite important.
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