To illustrate the point, the fact that this text is green and in a different typeface is not important to the information it contains, so those cosmetic things are not done with HTML tags, but rather they are done with styles.

When we don't have access to the page's external or head stylesheet, we do this stuff by adding what are called "inline styles". That means adding a "style=" bit to the HTML tags. That bit contains the colours etc.

Anyone who wants to style their text a little more than is permitted with the usual old tags may like to research inline styles.

Anyone who dabbles in web design is well advised to learn CSS. It opens up a whole new world of what is possible.

Check out: CSS Zen Garden. Some stunning design work there.

Every version of that page uses exactly the same HTML. All that change to achieve all that variety of design are the images and the stylesheets.

Apologies, but I love this stuff.

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