PLEASE READ THIS NOTE: After some testing, I've found an easier and more efficient way to create the HTML code for your Bio. You'll find the tutorial here in the Painter Factory Help forum:
An Easier Way to Prepare HTML Code for Your Bio
For now, I'll leave this tutorial here on the chance some of you might prefer doing it this way (doubtful, but possible).
Hi,
If you decide to write a Bio for your profile, you may find it confusing as I did. There are no tools to format the text and it turns out we have to use HTML code tags instead. On top of that, it won't accept all tags, or they display in the published Bio since some of them are aready specified for The Painter Factory pages. For instance here are some tags that aren't needed:
<html> </html>
Meta tags
<body> </body>
<font> </font>
Below my own Bio, I've added a demonstration including several kinds of text formatting you might want to use. It begins with the following paragraph and image:
Here begins a Bio demonstration for which I'll supply the HTML code to show you what tags to use to produce various formatting.
To see how the HTML code tags relate to that Bio demonstration, you'll need to download the zipped text file from my server, extract the zip file, then compare the text file with the Bio demonstration.
Bio_demonstration_code.zip
If you don't want to download the zipped text file (1 or 2 kb), here's the Bio demonstration code as it looks in the text file (either way, you can print it for ease when comparing with the Bio demonstration):
<img alt=""
src="http://www.tutoralley.com/ubb/groovy_plumage_brush_bird_logo.gif"
height="150" width="200"><br>
<br>
Type your greeting (i.e. Hi everyone!).<br>
<br>
Here is where you begin your Bio. It may be several parargraphs long.<br>
<br>
Second paragraph.<br>
<br>
Third paragraph.<br>
<br>
You may want to include a bulleted list:<br>
<ul>
<li>Apples</li>
<li>Oranges</li>
<li>Bananas</li>
<li>Grapes</li>
<li>Lemons</li>
<li>Cherries</li>
</ul>
You may want to include a numbered list:<br>
<ol>
<li>Apples</li>
<li>Oranges</li>
<li>Bananas</li>
<li>Grapes</li>
<li>Lemons</li>
<li>Cherries</li>
</ol>
You may want to indent some text:<br>
<blockquote>Note: It's wise to use Painter's File
> Iterative Save command as it adds a new number at the end of the
file name each time the file is saved and produces a numbered series of
files. This way, you have several versions of your image to use, if you
change your mind and want to go back a few stages or if you just want
to begin with one of those versions and alter it to create a whole new
image.<br>
</blockquote>
You may want to make some text bold,
italics, or underlined: <br>
<br>
<b>BOLD</b><br>
<br>
<i>Italics</i><br>
<br>
<u>Underlined</u><br>
<br>
Or use a combination of these three text formats:<br>
<br>
<i><b>Bold Italics</b></i><br>
<br>
<u><b>Bold Underlined</b></u><br>
<br>
<u><i>Italics Underlined</i></u><br>
<br>
You may want to include links to other
artists' websites or to other images and text on your own website and
make the links bold:<br>
<br>
<b><a href="http://pixlart.blogspot.com/">John
Derry's PixlBlog</a></b><br>
<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.pixelalley.com/2001-2002-Gallery/heres_my_heart.html"><b>Here's
My Heart</a></b><br>
<br>
I hope this saves a few of you some time. It's still a pain to do, but at least you won't have to figure it all out from scratch.
Some of you probably know all this already, you lucky ducks!
If you do, and know an easier way than what I've shared, please do let us know. We'll be ever so grateful.
Cheers!
Jin