Formatting your content

Ok, adding content is easy, but it sure looks boring: lines and paragraphs of plain text. Bleah. To make the content look better — to make it look the way you want it to look &mash; you need to know a few bits of CSS. CSS uses stylesheets to format web text, and the bits you need to know — are easy! Yay!

Some basics. To change the look of text, you need to wrap it in code. Doing that is very easy; you use tags. One tag makes text bold, another creates a hyperlink, and other insert images.

All tags are created using angle brackets: "<" and ">". So to make text bold, you'd do this:

this is <strong>bold text<strong>.

and the result would be
this is bold text.

(why "strong" and not "bold"? that'll be explained soon.)

so that's how it works. next page will give you a list of different tags you can use in formatting your Drupal content.