two more days..

[lizzie_and_ari]

Hello. Today is the 29th and tonight is our leaving party. I am quite stressed because we leave the day after tomorrow and we still have so much to do.

Agh!

By the way, do any of you LJ boffins out there know if there's a way to write in colour or something - basically so me and Ari could write in different colours for ease and clarity.

??

Let me know.

Anyway I will see people tonight.

Lizziexxx

Comments

[marrog.livejournal.com]

There is, there's a text tag that can change your colour, and it goes like this:

<*font color="red"*>Text text text text text.<*/font*> (with asterisks removed) GIVES YOU:

Text text text text text.

There are two options for what to put inside those quotations. For basic colours (red, blue, white, black, purple, etc) you can just enter the name of the colour. For prettier, more subtle shades, you'll have to use the colour's hexidecimal code, which is a # followed by six digits (often both numbers and letters). There's a chart here that gives you quite a few hex codes, so you c'n have a look and decide which to use.

However, I wouldn't actually recommend changing your text colour; everyone's LJ has a different background colour (mine, for example, is black, Fliss's is... dark red I think), so you could end up using colours that clash horribly with the background their viewing on in a headachy fashion - on indeed accidentally use the same colour as the background so that we wouldn't see it at all!

I would instead recommend changing the font face itself - let's say, one of you with arial, one with serif. The tag for this is similar to the one above, but instead of 'color' you use 'face', like so:

<*font face="serif"*>Text in a serif font face.<*/font*> GIVES YOU:

Text in a serif font face.

So you could use arial, perhaps, like so, and then when it was Ari's turn to type you would switch to serif, like so. Which frankly is a lot better than changing colour all the time, isn't it?

correction

[marrog.livejournal.com]

They're, not their. Jeeesus @ my typing sometimes.

a further lesson

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Oh, and while I'm on the subject, there are several very simple tags that can give your text emphasis and so forth, that you'll probably want to know.

Remove asterisks as usual of course...

<*i*>italics - italics
<*b*>bold - bold
<*u*>underline - underline

And in addition to the 'face' and 'color' of your font, you can also change the size in exactly the same way:

<*font size="1"*>Small text<*/font*> - small text

Font sizes on the internet are different from in word processing, and vary from one to seven, I think - actually they probably go even larger, but really, do you want any bigger than that?

I would also add that you can stack all the 'font' tags together in between the same set of brackets, should you want to, like so...

<*font size="5" face="serif" color="purple"*>Tra la la...<*/font*>

= Tra la la...

Of course this means you can only disable them all at once.

Right, okay, enough for now. Sorry.

ppps:

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I made you an icon in case you wanted one. It's here, and it looks like this:


You're allowed to not like it, it took all of five minutes. I wanted to make you one that had a picture of you guys, but they're all on my broken puter.

Oh, and the place you can upload icons is under 'manage --> userpics'. You can load straight across from that url I think.