Example:
<B>Herman Melville</B> becomes
Herman Melville

Italic
Same as Bold but use <I> and </I> instead.

Example:
<I>Alex Trebek</I> becomes
Alex Trebek

Line and Paragraph Breaks
Other tags don't have a closing version. One example is <BR> which you can insert in between word to create a line break there.

Example:
Why do I always <BR> feel like sleeping? becomes
Why do I always
feel like sleeping?

To create blank lines between words, use the <P> tag in the same way.

Example:
Because you eat sleeping pills <P> like candy! becomes
Because you eat sleeping pills

like candy!

This is what the Create a Story program does -- inserts a <P> tag wherever it finds a blank line in the text.

Centering a Paragraph
If you have a paragraph set off with <BR> or <P> tags, or with blank lines in the Create a Story form, you can also add a <CENTER> tag before and a </CENTER> after the paragraph to center it in t he window.

Example:
<BR><CENTER>Cocoa Puffs</CENTER> becomes

Images
Images are also placed using a standalone tag with no closing. In this case the basic tag is <IMG SRC="address"> where instead of address you must insert the location of the image. For Mr.Beller's neighborh ood, images for a particular section are located in a folder/directory called "imgs." So if you're making a story in sec6, and you'd like to call upon and image named "dog.gif" that's been uploaded to the sec6 imgs directory, the tag looks like this:
<IMG SRC="imgs/dog.gif"> which becomes


(Right now we're in the admin sectin though, not sec6, so it found that image in the imgs directory for admin). Note that punctuation in these tags like in ALL tags is very important; the page will break without proper punctuation. You have to get both " marks and both the < and > brackets in there, and leave a space between IMG and SRC.

To speed up loading it's also important to put in WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes in the IMG tag, like this:
<IMG SRC="imgs/dog.gif" WIDTH=149 HEIGHT=179>

How do you get the width and height? If you have the image on your hard drive you can open the image in Photoshop, or drag it into a Netscape window, which will display the HeightxWidth in the title bar. If the image is on the web, you can type the addres s into Netscape to see the same thing:
http://www.word.com/mrbeller/admin/imgs/dog.gif -- this link will open a new window with that address, where you can see the height and width of dog.gif in the title bar.

Links
The opening tag for a link is <A HREF="address"> where address is the address of the page you want to link to. The closing tag, much like Bold and Italic, is </A>. To open a link in a new window, change the opening tag to <A HREF="address" TARGET="_new"> -- this will open a new window whenever the link is clicked.

Examples:
<A HREF="http://www.disney.com/">The Wonderful World of Disney</A> becomes
The Wonderful World of Disney (opens in this window)

<A HREF="http://www.disney.com/" TARGET="_new">The Wonderful World of Disney</A> becomes
The Wonderful World of Disney (which will open in a new window -- which is what we want to do for outside links in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood)

<A HREF="../sec3/hotdogwar.html">The Hot Dog War</A> becomes
The Hot Dog War (which will open in this window, which is what we want to do when one Mr.Beller story links to another.)
To link from one Mr.Beller story to another use this format:
../sec#/storyname.html
where # is the section number (3, upper west side) and storyname is the name of the story file (hotdogwar).

Pop-Up Windows
To open a pop-up you must make a link (see above) that calls on a program which I have inserted into every story. The opening tag for this link is:
<A HREF="nofunc();" OnClick="storywin('popupname',width,height)">
where popupname is the name of the popup you created (the filename, but without .html) and width and height are the width and height of the new pop-up window. You will probably want to adjust the width and height to fit the content of the pop-up. Scrollbars will be added automatically to windows that are too small to display all the content. The closing tag is still </A>.

Examples:
<A HREF="nofunc();" OnClick="storywin('hotdogwar',200,100)">The Hot Dog War</A> becomes
The Hot Dog War (which will open a 200x100 window for the hotdogwar story. It's a little cramped.)