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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