Have you noticed that the bio’ standard letters are small? Well, no need to worry. Now you will learn how to increase the font size on ProZ.
For
bold,
italic, and
underline you can just click on “A WYSIWYG editor is also available.”
And they would be here:
For your peace of mind, I will put them below—and this works on KudoZ questions too.
After clicking on Code View—and making a backup if anything goes wrong (just copy and paste the text into Notepad or a similar program):
What you need to know is just these:
A tag is usually an abbreviation of a longer descriptive name within angle brackets (< >).
For didactic reasons, I will substitute them with parentheses (), because I am writing on a web page and the code will disappear with angle brackets.
(p) open a paragraph and (/p) closes it. Notice that closing tags always end with “/”(slash). If you don’t put a closing, the formatting will continue forever (and ever).
And, when opening a paragraph, you can add “ style="font-size:13px;" ” like this (p style="font-size:13px;") and the number before “px” is the amount you can adjust. You don’t need to put this on closing. So, (p style="font-size:14px;")Hello, world!(/p) appears as:
Hello, world!
For reference, I will demonstrate a standard ProZ, 12px, 14px, and 16px size letters. The code is:
Hello, world! How are you?
Hello, translator! I am little tired. And you?
In many ways, my work involves being a little tired.
Let’s learn a little about investments and retirement, shall we? And don’t forget to visit me.
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Ah, (br) means a line break, but you can just hit enter on WYSIWYG editor. This tag doesn’t need a closing one.
Well, the article should end here, but you want more right? So, let’s get to colors and font families.
For colors, the method is the same, but with “color: your color;”:
(p style=" font-size: 13px; color: Black;")Your text here(/p)
The colors, that I tested and worked, are red, blue, yellow, brown, green, pink, orange, indigo, and purple. But feel free to experiment, there is no self-destructing code in testing new colors—I hope… You can check more colors here:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/html/html_color_names.htm
And crimson works too! No, I am not a vampire; I just like the sound of the word crimson… crimson… but let’s continue…
Open the paragraph and after (or before) font-size put “font-family: your font;”. Remember to place the semicolon, I will not explain it in this article, because is a little technical, and I am writing this article to help all the newcomers or veterans who don’t want to learn HTML.
(p style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 17px;")Your text here(/p)
There are a lot of families, but it’s better to play safe, focus on the most known ones, like Times New Roman, Arial, or Georgia. This site can help you more:
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_websafe_fonts.asp
Before saving your bio, check it with the preview, just close the code view—click on it again. Remember to see your bio on different devices to find out if it’s really working.
To wrap up, just copy and paste between any sentences:
(p style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: Black; font-size: 17px;")Your text here(/p)
You can adjust to your taste. Try it, play with it, it won’t bite you.
Just a quick note about your code: you can put an “enter space” between the code to help it become a little clean.
Now put what you learn into practice! Don’t need to fear HTML. It’s here to help you write an outstanding bio. Make me proud.
Reference: Learning Web Design — A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics, by Jennifer Niederst Robbins.
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