Oh, all right then, since you won't be led astray, clever stuff like changing colour and size

of text, silly

can be found in the very useful Mudcat FAQ - Newcomer's Guide which sits happily atop the thread list, just as I sit atop my sparkling supermarket trolley, or more directly: Basic Mudcat HTML.

If you want to change font colour to red, you would put

<font color=red>

before your text, and </font> after your text.
(We must spell it the American way, because computers don't recognise the word colour with a u, and reject the instruction.)

Noreen the Sireen