Here's a list of html codes/tags used in formatting text:

1. BOLD           <strong>bold</strong>

2. Italic             <i>italic</i> or <em>italic</em>

3. Underline       <u>underline</u>

4. Align center    <P align=center>words</p>

5. Align right      <P align=right>words</p>

6. Numbered list
   <OL><LI>words<LI>words...</LI></OL>
   (each <LI> represents a number)

7. Bulleted list
   <UL><LI>words<LI>words...</LI></UL>

8. Indent
   <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
   words</blockquote>
   (each <blockquote dir...> represents one unit to the
   right.)

9. Highlight
   <FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #bfdfff">
   (use your own HEX code for the colour)

10. Symbols: put the code inside the 'edit html' window.

a. Copyright: &copy;
b. Registered: &reg;
c. Trademark: &trade;
d. Inverse exclamation mark: &iexcl;
e. Inverse question mark: &iquest;
f. Cent: &cent;
g. Pound: &pound;
h. Yen: &yen;
i. Euro: &euro;
j. Gen. Curr.: &curren;
k. Section: &sect;
l. Paragraph: &para;
m. Degree: &deg;
n. Spades: &spades;
o. Clubs: &clubs;
p. Hearts: &hearts;
q. Diamonds: &diams;
r. Per mille: &permil;
s. Plus or minus: &plusmn;
t. Dagger: &dagger;
u. Double dagger: &Dagger;
v. Superscript1: &sup1;
   (same as 2 and 3. In general, use
   ^text as superscript and
   _text as subscript.)
w. Angle quote (Left): &laquo;
x. Angle quote (right): &raquo;

11. Link <A href="(your link, for example
     http://www.xanga.com/david_page)" (your
     description of the link, for example "Click here")
     </a>

     This is a real example: Click here

12. Image: just drag your image (which must be
     UPLOADED to your personal website, for example
     www.david.5gigs.com) from the other browser to
     you edit box.

13. Font size: <font size="(your required font size, for
     example 1)">text</font>
     Example: this is font size 1

13. Font: <font face="arial">text</font>

14. Undo: Ctrl+Z

15. Redo: Ctrl+Y

16. Cut: Ctrl+X

17. Copy: Ctrl+C

18. Paste: Ctrl+V

19. Horizontal rule: Put <HR id=null> to where you want
     to put the rule. You can specify the width you want
     by using <HR width=600> and so on.

20. Paragraph: Enter

21. Line Break: Shift+Enter

22. Background colour and Border colour: 
Put <td valign="top" style="background-color:#FFDFBF;border: 2px solid #18A718;"> at the start of the post in HTML code AFTER you've finished typing it, and put </td></tr><tr><td width="5%"><p></p></td><td valign="top" align="left"> at the end of your post. The HEX colour code can be changed as you like.

Hope that it's useful for you! ;)

Today's post at www.xanga.com/david_page

First post of this site...

The site is still under CONSTRUCTION.

2 sitemeters are added:
One calculates the visits of this site (upper one);
one calculates the TOTAL visits of www.xanga.com/david_page and this site (lower one).

Have fun!