Editorial Help

To change static site content into 'editorial' content you must contact your site co-ordinator/producer. New editorials must be created by the Sift Production team.


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In addition to text, you can use some HTML tags to change the content within your editorial. This section outlines the HTML tags available to you and how to use them. If you would like to use any other HTML tags to format your editorial content please contact your site co-ordinator/producer as many tags will produce unexpected results when used within an editorial.

bold text

To make text bold surround the word/s with an opening and closing bold tag. The tags you will need are indicated in red.

<b>your text</b>

italic text

To make text italic surround the word/s with an opening and closing italic tag. The tags you will need are indicated in red.

<i>your text</i>

Increase/decrease text size

To increase the size of text surround the word/s with an opening and closing font tag. Text sizes range from 1 to 6. (1 being the smallest) The tags you will need are indicated in red.

<font size="3">your text</font>

Changing the color of text

To change the color of text surround the word/s with an opening and closing font tag. There are too many color choices to list but if you use this
link you can obtain the necessary hexdecimal reference for any color you want.

<font color="#336699">your text</font>

Combining text formatting

I you want to use more than one HTML formatting tag you can combine them as shown below

<font size="4" color="#FFFFFF"><i>your text</i></font>

To create links to another web page use the <a href> tag in conjunction with the url of the page you want to link to.

<a href="http://www.urlhere.com">your text</a>

To create a link to an e-maill address use the <a href> tag in conjunction with 'mailto:' and the e-mail address as shown.

<a href="mailto:service@sift.co.uk">your text</a>

You can easily create bulleted or numbered lists using the following html tags

A bulleted list

Numbered lists are created as above all you need to do is change the the opening and closing <ul> tag to an opening and closing <ol> tag.

An image used in an editorial must taken from the Sift photo library or if originating from an external source copied to the images folder of the relevant site. External images (ie not designed by sift or not originating from the photolibrary) must be copywrite free.

Once the image is available you can use the <img> tag to add your image to your editorial.

<img src="path/nameofimage.gif  width="100" height="100" border="0">

You can see from the above HTML that you will need to know the following about the image you want to add:

1. width and height
   
2. path or url of the image
   
3. name of the image
   
4. a border is optional ("0" means no border, if you want a border enter an integer of 1 or more. a border of 1 represents a border that is 1 pixel in width.