Do you know (X)HTML and CSS?

If not, this is an excellent opportunity to learn. Either you can try learning from scratch (HTML Tutorial) or you can start by taking someone else's layout and modifying it.

Plain ole HTML is becoming one of those basic skills that help a lot in multiple ICT sectors, so perhaps this may be a good opportunity to learn.



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I guess the next question is, do you want to learn? It's a pretty useful skill to have these days.

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Ah. Then you don't so much want help making a layout, you want someone to make a layout for you…

Do you have something to offer in return for somebody doing that favour for you?

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Ideally you don't want to use the font tag. It is deprecated which means it's not valid.

OK, so you don't want to learn, but you want to do it yourself. Now you're just contradicting yourself, pal.

OK, you will need a div. A div tag defines a section or division in a HTML document. Everything within that division can be styled (using CSS) to look a certain way. With CSS you can change things like the font size, style, and colour, as well as the background image or colour, and much more.

First, the HTML part:

To create a div, you need an opening <div> and a closing </div> . Everything you want to change needs to go between those two tags.

<div> stuff inside a div </div>

You can change the style of a div by adding the style property, i.e. <div style="…">.

And then from there you'll need some CSS, to go between those two quotation marks…

For example:
<div style="background-color: black; color: white;"> stuff inside the div </div>

will create a black background with white text…

To turn that into a layout, you put the <div style="background-color: black; color: white;"> half into your Post Header, and the <div> into the Signature.

And that's about as basic as a post layout can get.

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Of course it works! Would I lead you astray?

But you said blue text. Do you know what colour blue?

One thing you'll have to keep an eye out for is that it can be difficult to read some blues on black background. Pick a lighter blue if you can.

All you need to do is pick a blue (i.e. #70B4E7 and put those numbers in place of where it says "white" at the moment. Or maybe #7082E7 ?

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<div style="background-color: black; color: seablue;">

would have worked perfectly instead of adding font tags.

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<div style="background-color: black; color: white;">
<br><font color="seablue"><hr>Fixed
<br>BTW: how do i move the line up?<br><br>--------------------<br></div>
<br></font>
<br>Watcth is spin round n' round.

Which link? Now you're starting to confuse me.

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