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Adding
a post and using markup in posts |
| The FAQ list on the menu bar, to the top right of the screen includes the following information: |
| Can I
attach a file to my
post? Can I use html in my posts? What software do you use to run the board? Do I have to accept cookies? I want to see more (or less) posts per page. What's with all the buttons? Why are Subject, Poster and Posted on clickable? Why do you ask for two email addresses? Why should I register a Username? |
| It is useful to try out the markup options, particularly changing: |
| C O L O U R S | EMPHASIS | |
| [blue]
colours [/blue] [red] colours [/red] [purple] colours [/purple] |
[b][blue]
emphasis [/blue][/b] [b][red] emphasis [/red][/b] [b][purple] emphasis [/purple][/b] |
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| ... and ITALICS | ||
| [i][b][ blue]
emphasis [
/blue][/b][/i] [i][b][red] emphasis [/red][/b][/i] [i][b][purple] emphasis [/purple][/b][/i] |
| The
examples given illustrate
how to use colours, bold, and italics. Place a command in square
brackets before the word you want highlighted,
then the
same command, preceded by a slash /
in square
brackets after the word. |
EMOTICONS  |
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| Emoticons
(Emotion Icons) are used to
make your feelings plain. For instance, you may write something
which is controversial, but adding a will take
the
"sting" out of it. The available emoticons are: |
| SMILE |  |
LAUGH | |
| FROWN |  |
CRAZY |  |
| SHOCKED |  |
BLUSH |  |
| WINK |  |
COOL |  |
| MAD | |
TONGUE |  |
| Online
access to Markup Information |
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| Full
markup information can be
easily found when you are creating or replying to a post by
clicking on the link at the top of the post/reply form which
says: |
|
| Fill out
the form below to post a message on the forum. HTML is disabled.
Markup is enabled, so you may use
markup in your
posts |
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|
Modes—Flat and Threaded—and how to deal with
them |
|
| There
are two ways you can
read posts on the Board. The default method, the one you are
probably reading the posts in now, is the "flat"
mode. The other mode, "threaded" , shows the
posts as a hierarchy based on the Subject of the
posts.
Experiment with each of them until you decide which one suits you
best. If you are replying to a previous post and the thread has divided up into sub-threads, it can be helpful to include a brief reference from the last message, so that people who are reading in "flat mode" can work out who you are replying to. In the early days, we got quite confused from time to time and this was a solution for making things run a little more smoothly. Some people prefer it if you put the quote on a different colour, say blue (see the notes on markup) others just add a ">" before the quote. Alternatively you can put [ quote ] before and [ /quote ] afterwards take out the extra spaces first to make a very impressive (if space consuming) introduction. |
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| For a guide to coloured quoting click here | |
| ...
and when the Standard Computer Keyboard Character Set is just NOT
Enough ... |
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| If
you wish to add characters
which are not obvious on your computer keyboard you will need to
use the latin-1 ASCII character set. Here are links to a couple
of sites which have ASCII lists: |
|
http://www.ramsch.org/martin/uni/fmi-hp/iso8859-1.html http://www.endsite.com/therest/webhelp/iso-latin-1-js.asp |
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| so you need never be without the letter ñ ! Or, for a step-by-step guide to using special characters, click here | |
| Please email me with any corrections/amendments, so that I can make changes.  |
