Kiriashi 117 Report post Posted June 29, 2010 MARKED! THE IMAGE TAGS ARE NOT WORKING! :< Note: I purposely used as much formatting as I could in this post, so if it looks like I'm overdoing it, that's why. ^_^ Internet forums are a great place to discuss ideas and share thoughts, and we do that in our own personal posts called topics, or threads. When people post threads on forums, they usually have a main idea intact. That main idea is something that they either want to support or detract; compliment or make fun of; teach or question. To accomplish this goal of a topic, one must of course write the topic. But there is much more to composing a great topic than just writing up text. This is where the beauty of formatting comes in. Internet forum threads or posts are formatted with BBCode. Bulletin Board Code -- or BBCode for short -- is a lightweight markup language used to format posts and topics in many message boards. But what does all that gobbledygook mean? Well the easiest way to understand what BBCode is, is for me to show you. Take a look at the following codebox: [b]This text is bold![/b] As you can see, there are brackets containing the letter "b" surrounding that sentence; also the second one as a backslash before the "b". If I were to post that sentence again without putting it in a code box, this would be the end result: This text is bold! Magic! The tags (as they're called) caused that sentence to become bold when they were wrapped around it. The backslash in the second part of the tag signifies the closing tag. There are many BBCode tags to be used around the internet, and at RMXP Unlimited in specific. The effects of all BBCode in code-boxes are canceled. There is also a kind of BBCode called emoticons. Emoticons are those faces you see all over the internet like \(^__^)/ or : ). People use many different keyboard characters to form these cute faces in order to display their emotions. Without them, we wouldn't be able to let people know how we are feeling in our posts with out blatantly stating it, and that's boring! But why are emoticons considered BBCode? They're just faces! Well, when you use a specific set of characters for a face, they automatically become an emotion image! When I type ^._.^ without the periods in between the characters, the face turns into this: ^_^ Amazing, right? There are a lot of smiley faces for you to use in the box to the right (when writing a post). Take a look at all these: Some of them turn into the smiley images just by typing out a little face, and some of them have colons before and after them. Surely you won't run out... right? There actually is a limit to how many smilies you can use in a single post, but you probably won't ever reach it as long as you aren't spamming. There's also a way to bypass the limit. :shifty: So you understand how BBCode works; now let's go over a few of them. At the top-left of the post editor are four letters. These are B, I, U and S, which make text bold, italicized , underlined and stricken-through respectively. Those are simple enough, right? But what if I want my text to ne bold and underlined; I REALLY want to get my point across! Easy as pie; all you have to do is wrap more than one pair of tags around your word/sentence. So this: [i][b]Marked is the greatest forum administrator ever![/b][/i] Will produce this: Marked is the greatest forum administrator ever! You can wrap as many BBCode tags around one piece of text as you want. Even though it looks like garble in your post while editing, it will look proper when completed. Now that you pretty much know how BBCode works, I will just start explaining the rest of them. I think that one you will really want to learn is the image BBCode tag. Images can be used just to show someone a screenshot of your game, or to make your project topic look really cool. To post an image, simply click on the button in the BBCode bar at the top of the post editor. This box will appear: Now all you have to do is paste in your direct image link. These always end in a picture extension, such as .png. Here's a few examples of direct image links: http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/8541/captureyw.png http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/1310/whitek.png http://www.rmxpunlimited.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/happy.gif http://www.rmxpunlimited.net/screenshots/mrmos-abs-v45/mrmoabs.jpg When we post the image link in that box and press "Insert Image", the link will be written down except with [img=http://rmxpunlimited.net/forums/uploads/av-1.gif] ...we would get a picture of it in our post: http://rmxpunlimited.net/forums/uploads/av-1.gif' alt='av-1.gif'> Do upload a picture to the internet for use in your posts, upload it to a site like ImageShack. Then copy the Direct Link and put it in a pair of button in the BCCode bar, and paste in your link. Click OK and you have a working hyper link. You don't really have to be clicking on the BBCode buttons up there to achieve their effects, you can manually type the tags out. For the short ones, it can be easier to just type em' out. You can actually combine the http:// and tags. What this means is that you can create an image that will lead to a URL when clicked. To do this, first get your link and put URL tags around it; type something random [url]http://www.google.com/"]http://www.google.com/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
