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Changing the Font & Style of Your H1 Tags

QUESTION: (Rhonda) I am having problems changing the font size of my H1text. Is this very important? If so, how do I go about changing it?

Changing the text and/or style of an H1 tag is simple in CSS.  It does not affect anything other than how the visitor sees it though (i.e., if you use a large font, it means nothing more than a smaller font, in SEO terms or how Google sees it).

You can change the H1 tag locally or in the CSS definition file.

If you want to change all of the H1 tag settings in your entire website, you would do this in the CSS file:

h1 {
font-size: 24px;
}

You would use the h1 tag as you normally would:
<h1>This is my H1 tag</h1>

You can define a class in the CSS file which allows you to define your new style whenever you wish anywhere on the site:

.h1style {
font-size: 24px;
}

You would add this class to your h1 tag, when you wish it:

<h1 class=”h1style”>This is my H1 Tag</h1>

* Remember to add the “.” when defining it in the CSS to classify it as a class.

Finally, you can do it locally using a style attribute (without the CSS file):

<h1 style=”font-size:24px;”>This is my H1 Tag</h1>

All of the above do the exact same thing.  Their use is based on how often you use the style and how you want it defined (whether globally or locally).

Also, remember you can add other styles to the same definition (like color):

<h1 style=”font-size:24px; color:red;”>This is my H1 Tag that is Red and 24px high</h1>

I find that being able to change the styles of my text for header and other standard tags to be quite invaluable!  Knowing a little bit of CSS can go a long way.  Give this a try!

The easiest thing to try first is the local definition using the style attribute. If this is working for you, consider creating or editing your own CSS file!

Good luck!  cheers…matt


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I just got back from eBay Live yesterday after a transcontinental trip to Boston for the weekend. I have a few things to admit, first:
1) This was my first eBay Live! that I have attended.
2) I had little to no expectations of this event.
3) Honestly, I gave very little credit [...]

I just got back from eBay Live yesterday after a transcontinental trip to Boston for the weekend. I have a few things to admit, first:

1) This was my first eBay Live! that I have attended.

2) I had little to no expectations of this event.

3) Honestly, I gave very little credit to eBay and its importance to me as an online marketer.

My pre-notion of eBay selling involves some “mother-in-law-like” middle to older age woman making money from selling the garbage that they found in their attic.

And to be honest, this pre-notion did not disappoint, to some extent. The first night in Boston, I went into an Irish Pub (which, I never realized existed on EVERY street corner I could find). I sat at the bar, had a beer (Black and Tan, of course) and two different groups of people sat on either side of me. Both fit the description above and after talking with them, both very successful at doing this. (Selling garage cr*p, that is).

eBay LiveI found it humorous but satisfying to my own sterotype of an eBay powerseller. Until I actually got to the conference.

I was FLOORED! First of all, eBay KNOWS how to create one helluva event. First class all around. The speakers were top notch (like Seth Godin and Suze Orman), and the break-out training sessions were very eye-opening.

At this point, my stereotypes went to the wasteside. There were every type of person (young and old, men and women, full-business-types to Minnesota housewife wearing sweat pants). I thought this was great! This is what home based business is all about. Then I started to talk to these people and found that many of them were not just selling garage items, but have built full eCommerce businesses from eBay (and VERY SIMPLY, too).

And beyond just buying and selling on eBay, there were tons of general marketing strategies using eBay that frankly, I have ignored. Now that I am home, I have tons of action items to have eBay work for ME. And believe it or not, none of these ideas involve me selling items out of my basement and bringing them to UPS to ship.

As I start trialing these methods, I will post them on my blog. But the moral of this story is that eBay not just a big garage sale, it may be perhaps the largest marketing entity currently on the internet.

- Matthew Bredel

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