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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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A Landing Page! You come to the conclusion that you need a landing page at this point. You have been spending some time online looking at what others have been marketing (and making money on). In fact, you have spent close to 2 weeks just [...]

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A Landing Page! You come to the conclusion that you need a landing page at this point. You have been spending some time online looking at what others have been marketing (and making money on). In fact, you have spent close to 2 weeks just researching out a few different markets and products. You also realize that now is the time to focus on what has already worked for others, rather than trying to invent the internet’s next MySpace or sell tomorrow’s iPod.

But how in the heck are you going to build a website? You really don’t know much about HTML, or for that matter, how the heck a website actually appears on your computer. You understand how a browser works, how to create and send email and maybe even know how to upload a video onto YouTube or post comments in a forum. But building your OWN website? Where do you start? Should you go and buy a copy of Dreamweaver? Should I pay someone to build my website? You don’t know if you can do this or not.

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OK, take a few deep breaths and don’t worry so much! Realize that yes, I do think that you need a website, or at least a landing page if you plan on becoming an affiliate marketer. But this does not mean you need to become a web designer. In fact, most successful online marketers know nothing about web design. We do need to make some decisions at this point. There are easy, and free choices…and then there are complicated and expensive choices. At the beginning, especially before you ever make money I always recommend to choose easy and cheap. My first true “landing” page was nothing more than a blogger.com (Blogspot) blog. In this case, you do not get your own, specific domain name, but it is a unique URL that you can customize and add content to. This requires little to no web design skills and it is free! Sure, with free and easy comes limitations. Still, it may be an excellent start to get a good feel about creating content, setting up affiliate links, setting up Adsense, and becoming familiar with website design and structure.

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2 Responses to “The Frustrated Affiliate Marketer (Part IV)”

  1. Hi,
    Thanks for your newsletter. I am a successful ebay seller.I am looking for a fast not too expensive way to start an e- commerce website to offset recent high ebay fees .which can include some affiliate marketing etc, What do you suggest?

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    Posted by: david zeller
    September 17th, 2007 at 9:52 pm

  2. Its great to get knowledge about having a home based business , as mentioned previously in your III parts,its now new edition which is having great detailed about having a online home based business , as some day before i have visited a similar site like yours and it has an idea about having online home based business , which is great way have home based business.

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