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Automated "Fancy" FormattingCertain HTML formatting will automatically be applied to the descriptive text fields in your Site Manager. Here are the formatting conversions that will take place:
1. Hitting the "enter" key once creates a line break. Hitting the "enter" key twice creates a paragraph break.
2. All email address and website URLs beginning with http:// will be converted to links.
3. You can add additional photos to the text on a web page, using the tags "imageright:filename.jpg," "imageleft:filename.jpg," or "imagecenter:filename.jpg," depending on whether you want the image to show to the right of the text, to the left of the text, or centered between lines of text. (Get more info on Extra Images)
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Basic HTML FormattingYou may want to use a few basic html tags when formatting the text in your description or article fields if you want text to be italicized, bolded, or used as a subhead.
The html formatting tags consist of a start tag and an end tag. Any text placed between the start and end tags will use the specified formatting.
If you forget the end tag, any text after the start tag will have the special formatting. You will know that you have forgotten the end tag when you go to the website and the formatting on the page looks "weird." Don't panic. Just decide where the "weirdness" starts, then go and put in your end tag.
Common tags
1. For bold text use: <b>Your text</b>
2. For italics use: <i>Your text</i>
3. For subheads use <h2>Your text</h2>
For a smaller subhead use <h3>Your text</h3>
Bulleted Lists
You can create a bulleted list in the Site Manager using one of these methods:
1. Copy and paste a bulleted list you've already created in a text-editing program such as Word.
2. If you've already entered text into the Site Manager field and you need to add bullets, copy and paste the bullet from a text-editing program.
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Advanced HTMLIf you are familiar with writing html code and want to create items such as tables or lists, you are free to add the html. All you need to do is put the html code between the following tags: <html> Your html code here.</html>
Note: DO NOT use the following form tags in any text field: <form></form>
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Using the WYSIWYG Text EditorMightyMerchant, version 3.5 and above includes an HTML (WYSIWYG) text editor to allow you to more easily format the text on your site. The editor include MS Word-style control palette for adding things like bold and italicized text as well as adding links and uploading images.
To access the HTML Editor:
1. Go to any Edit screen in your MightyMerchant Site Manager.
2. Each text area on the page has an "Edit Above Text with HTML editor" link. Just click the link to open up the Editor in a new window.
3. Create your new text and add the formatting that you require.
4. Click the "Save" icon in the top left corner of the window.
5. Then, click the "Save" button at the bottom of the page. Your changes will not be saved until you click the "Save" button.
Here are some tips for using the HTML Editor:
To add formatting to a block of text, just drag across the text to highlight it and use the palette at the top of the window to set your formatting.
To add a link, highlight some text on your page and then click the "link" icon (two to the right of the smiley face). Type the address you would like to use for the link.
If you have text that you created in MightyMerchant prior to using the HTML Editor, you might need to do some reformatting of line breaks to have your text appear correctly.
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Adding Text from an MS Word DocumentYou need a free gmail account to do this task.
1. Email article to your gmail account as an attachment.
2. Log into Gmail and open the email with your attachment.
3. View the attachment, which will open it in Google Docs.
4. Select View -> Plain HTML
5. View the source of your document in your web browser.
6. Copy everything in the document under the heading and above the closing body tag. You don't want to copy the opening and closing html or body tags.
1. Go into MightyMerchant.
2. Create a new item.
3. Put your document name in the Item Name field.
4. Type your opening html tag:
5. Paste your document
6. Type your closing html tag:
7. Click Save.
8. Preview your new item.
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