Craigslist ad Completion - Step 3

Links and More

Time to finish our Craigslist ad.  Placing a link to your website will be the most important tag to complete our ad.  The final three lines are:

We Buy Houses – Quick Closing – Cash Now

Call (555) 555-5555

The first two lines are just a review of Step 1 of the blog posts.  We will be using the following tags:

Remember you can combine html tags to create a combination of effects.  Our first line uses a bold font and is red.  Therefore the html tags will be:

<b><font color=”red”>We Buy Houses – Quick Closing – Cash Now</font></b>

We Buy Houses - Quick Closing - Cash Now

Next we need to drop down a line or create a new paragraph.  Pressing the [Enter] key will not produce a paragraph in html.  There is a tag for this as well; <p>&nbsp;</p>.   The <p></p> stands for paragraph and the &nbsp; stands for non-breaking space, together they produce a new paragraph. 

<p>&nbsp;</p>

The second line is just a bold tag without a <font color></font> tag.  In the first line, we placed an end tag of </font> for the red color.  Therefore, html will revert back to the default color of black and since the next line is black, we do not need to insert <font color=”black”></font>.

<b>Call (555) 555-5555</b>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

Call (555) 555-5555

Now for the third and final line, which includes a link to your website.  The beginning of the line is black and bold:

The remaining portion of the third line will use a tag that will redirect the user to your website upon clicking the link.  The html tag is:

<a href=”url address of your website”>a description of the link</a>

The a stands for anchor.  The href stands for hypertext reference.  If you wanted your link to be your website, as in;

The tag would be:

To have 'Visit Our Site' as the link description, the tag would be:

<a href=”http://www.yourwebsite.com”>Visit Our Site</a>

Notice that the first part of the tag must include “http:// plus your website” and the description can be anything you wish.  Your description will be the link the viewer will see and click.

Our complete last line would be composed of two lines, our bolded first part and the actual link:

Visit us at:www.yourwebsite.com

Well that completes our Craigslist ad using html tags.  I hope I did not lose anyone along the way.  If anything is unclear or you have any questions, please contact me.  The purpose of this blog is to make your computer more profitable for your business.  And hopefully saving you money in the process.