Adding tags to make your text look better

If you've noticed that when you add text (in posts or blogs or whatever) it just displays as one big chunk and are wondering why the heck it looks like that, here's the answer - you need to add basic tags so the computer knows what you want it to look like. Its really simple once you know it, you just need to remember to have opening (ie < >) and closing (ie </ >) tags around your text. Start new paragraphs with < p > and then write the paragraph. When its done, put a closing tag to signal that the paragraph is done. </ p > (Just remember that I've put extra spaces in my example ones so that the computer displays them)

< p >That's all you need to know to do most of the basic stuff you'll want to. However, if you want to know a bit more, read on.</ p >

< p >You may notice sometimes when you're adding text in the text box and you try to italicize something the text editor automatically puts < i > </ i > around your highlighted text. Its set up to automatically put those tags in for you. Bold has < b > </ b > tags, and underlined has < u > </ u > tags. Pretty simple. however, there's one more slightly different tag that you might find useful - the line break < br >. This is a special tag because it closes itself, so you only need one of them. It doesn't surround any text, it just ends that line and drops down to start a new line. Sometimes its helpful if you don't want the extra space that is automatically put between paragraphs.</ p >