and for some reason, i couldnt post in the general info area, so im putting it here and if this turns out good, then i guess a mod or admin will move it. thanks!
ok so, what will this cover? hopefully all of it, however, i myself have never used the CODE, LIST OR LIST= before today, so we'll see where it goes.
first, from left to right, top to bottom, we have bold then italics
then underline then quote, then code, then list, then list= then img then url, then font color, then font size.
most commonly used is the bold, underline, quote, img and url. however, depending on what site you're using for image hosting, img is useless, as is url if you just copy-paste your url, it does it automatically.
so, using most of these is very easy, and it took me about 5 minutes of experimentation, so here goes:
all of them can be done easiest by typing whatever you want the text to say, anad then modify it. for example:
if i wanted this sentence to be dark red, then i would type it first, then select the sentence. then after selecting the sentence i would click on font color and select dark red, this would put (color=darkred) in front of my text and (/color) at the end of my text, but with this set of [] around it.
this same concept of writing your text, then selecting it and changing it applies to everything EXCEPT img, list= and maybe url.
so you can see what it should look like, here is the code of a modified sentence:
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[size=18]no matter how many times [/size]we tell a [b]n00b[/b] to [i]not pick locks they rely on[/i], we always tell [color=red]at least 3[/color] n00bs a week to not do it, this is [u]rather annoying[/u].
ok so that is a sentence where no matter how many times is large text, n00b was made bold, not to pick locks they rely on is italics, at least 3 is red and rather annoying is underlined. heres what it would come out looking like:
no matter how many times we tell a n00b to not pick locks they rely on, we always tell at least 3 n00bs a week to not do it, this is rather annoying.
so that covers color, bold, italics, underline, and size.
quote, code img and url are a little different.
in case someone doesnt know, quote is where you can quote someone else, however, it is usually easier to use the quote button from the thread, so that you can get their name in there, but i can show how to write that yourself as well. code is where you can use stuff like extra spaces that the site doesnt allow (because of HTML i think, or whatever system this site uses) img is for images, so they appear in the thread as a picture, instead of as a link. and url is supposed to make a url you write into a link, but thats the only thing (along with list=) that i dont know how to use, but not to worry, i dont know if ANYONE uses the list=, and url can usually be ignored, as when copy-pasting urls, its better without the url button.
ok so code allows you to type stuff that the site doesnt allow for, such as extra spaces, example:
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i wish i could do this normally.
i am going to copy that same sentence below, but not in code.
i wish i could do this normally.
see the difference? i didnt change anything, except one is in code, and the other isnt. so you can use this if illustrating a diagram with spaces and such, without the site modifying it.
quote is pretty easy.
i told him he should have been applying far less tension, but he insisted on being heavy handed...
now if you notice, when reading this, the quote says quote: at top, but if you want it to say "so and so wrote:" then you need to add there name in somewhere, but where?
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[quote="so and so"]i told him he should have been applying far less tension, but he insisted on being heavy handed...[/quote]
so it appears as:
so and so wrote:i told him he should have been applying far less tension, but he insisted on being heavy handed...
this is all very easy, and as far as using quote, you can always just click the quote button and it will do all the dirty work for you.
as for image, this trips people up a lot. most people end up putting links to their images because they cant work the img button. now if you use photobucket as i do, then just copy-paste the IMG url, its the bottom link under the image. but if not, then yo may have to do it yourself, not to worry though, as it is very easy.
all you do is post the link to the image you wish to add to the thread (suggest smaller size images for friendliness to dial up users) so you have a link like this:
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h99/k ... 0004-1.jpg
but in order for it to appear on this page you must tell the site it is an image, and not a link, so select it and hit the img button, in code it looks like this:
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[img]http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h99/krypos/06240004-1.jpg[/img]
in the thread, it appears like this:
and thats images.
lastly, list, and list= and url. i have never used list, list= or url, url is pointless (that i know of) as is list=, and list as far as i can tell just puts space on either side of a text. so dont bother with them unless experimenting with them.
note*: quote, img and code all use the same technique of selecting the desired text to be changed and hitting the appropriate button. almost always this adds something with [ ] around it on either side.
ok well i think thats all there is to using the options in a post/thread. good luck and enjoy! and feel free to ask questions.
EDIT
i have discovered how to use url. (after i finish writing it, boo!)
ok so if you want your sig or the word HERE to be a link to another place, but dont want to have a big ol' url sitting there, use url.
if i wanted a link to be displayed as CLICK HERE then i would do this:
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[url=http://photobucket.com]CLICK HERE[/url]
this creates a link to photobucket, this is what it looks like in post:
CLICK HERE
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so to write it, you have [url=(the site you want, whatever.com)]then the text the link will appear as (click here)[/url]
and thats using the url button, you can always hover your mouse over it and it will display an example. i am still not sure how to use the actual button, but knowing this info should help tremendously with something.
