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Maybe your wonder why your ad didn't turn out formatted as you liked it to be.
Or your wondering what you need to do to create a great looking ad. This
little tutorial will have you creating great looking ads in minutes. For this
tutorial we will be concentrating on the ad detail area and the formatting
and layout of the text inside your ad. As an example we will use a real ad
placed in the classifieds Clubs, Shows and Organizations Category by the Nebraska Tractor Test
Museum. The simple yet informative ad looks like
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Nebraska Tractor Test Reunion - Larsen Museum Open House
When:
Saturday, April 21st
10:00am - 5:00pm
Where:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus
35th & Fair Streets
Contact:
Jeremy Steele
1-402-472-8389
jsteele4@unl.edu
All tractors are welcome to be displayed throughout the day. Contact museum for registration details.
Featured Tractors of 2007 are of the following catagories:
Immortalized Tractors from 1907.
Petrified Tractors from 1932
Rustic Tractors from 1957
Retro Tractors from 1982
Revolutionary Tractors from 2007
Make plans to show your tractor and/or attend this event on Saturday, April 21st 2007.
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Simple HTML
To create the above classified ad along with
its exact formatting it is required that you use three Basic HTML TAGS. Without these
simple tags inserted into the above classified the ad formatting would look as follows:
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Nebraska Tractor Test Reunion - Larsen Museum Open House
When:
Saturday, April 21st 10:00am - 5:00pm
Where:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus
35th & Fair Streets
Contact:
Jeremy Steele
1-402-472-8389
jsteele4@unl.edu
All tractors are welcome to be displayed throughout the day. Contact museum for registration details.
Featured Tractors of 2007 are of the following categories:
Immortalized Tractors from 1907.
Petrified Tractors from 1932
Rustic Tractors from 1957
Retro Tractors from 1982
Revolutionary Tractors from 2007
Make plans to show your tractor and/or attend this event on Saturday, April 21st 2007.
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Okay, it's time to look at the three basic tags that changed the ad so
dramatically
<B></B>This is the tag for bold text. Example:
<B> Nebraska Tractor Test </B>This will show up on your
Classified Ad like this:
Nebraska Tractor Test
Next
<I></I> This is the tag for Italics Example:
<I> Nebraska Tractor Test.</I>
This will show up on your Classified Ad like this:
Nebraska Tractor Test
Or together
<B><I></B></I> The two tag together Example:
<B><I>Nebraska Tractor Test</B></I>
This will show up on your Classified Ad like this:
Nebraska Tractor Test.
And lastly but probably most important to your ad readability
The line break. The tag for a line break is <BR>. When you insert this tag in
your Classified Ad, the contents will go to the next line. The <BR> tag does not
need a closing tag afterward. Here is an example:
Nebraska Tractor
<BR>Test
This will generate the following:
Nebraska Tractor
Test
Basically, a line break is like hitting the "enter" key when you are writing
text. The browser will not go to the next line until it runs out of space, or
sees a tag that will force it to the next line. So typing the following in your
text editor will display only one line of text in the browser:
Hello,
I want
a new line.
This gives us:
Hello, I want a new line.
To make the text move to the next line, use your <BR> tag from above:
Hello,<BR>
I want<BR>
a new line.
Now this will do what we wanted it to:
Hello,
I want
a new line.
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As a reference and template below is the exact text and HTML tags entered into the classified ad detail text area to create the
classified ad for the Nebraska Tractor Test Reunion - Larsen Museum Open House
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<B>Nebraska Tractor Test Reunion - Larsen Museum Open House</B>
<BR><BR>
<B><I>When:</B></I>
<BR>
Saturday, April 21st
10:00am - 5:00pm
<BR><BR>
<B><I>Where:</B></I><BR>
University of Nebraska-Lincoln East Campus<BR>
35th & Fair Streets
<BR><BR>
<B><I>Contact:</B></I><BR>
Jeremy Steele<BR>
1-402-472-8389<BR>
jsteele4@unl.edu<BR>
<BR><I>All tractors are welcome to be displayed throughout the day. Contact
museum for registration details.</I>
<BR><BR>
<I>Featured Tractors of 2007 are of the following catagories:</I><BR>
<BR><B><I>Immortalized</B></I> Tractors from 1907.
<BR><B><I>Petrified</B></I> Tractors from 1932
<BR><B><I>Rustic</B></I> Tractors from 1957
<BR><B><I>Retro</B></I> Tractors from 1982
<BR><B><I>Revolutionary</B></I> Tractors from 2007
<BR><BR>
Make plans to show your tractor and/or attend this event on Saturday, April 21st
2007.
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