there is alot of people asking questions about HTML at different times and alot of people who don't use it enough, like in your bios, so heres a couple basic commands for use in your stories and in particular your bios.

I'm only giving you the very basics here, stuff like enormous type, colors and font size you can figure out for yourself, this is just to make you a little more literate at using the comnet and especially MAKING YOUR BIOS READABLE!

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<center> </center> Center: Centers your text like so
can be used to center all text or just a word, hence the </c>

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<br> Break: It dose what hitting the enter button once dose. so if i put a <br>
it would drop my text down one space like this.

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<p> Paragraph: Like hitting the enter button twice so if it put a <p>

It would drop my text down like this.

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<i> </i> Italics: make your text go like this  It is used for the names of ships and often to show unspoken thoughts portrayed with dialog. Also used to show emphasis. You have to put the </i> after it or all your text after the <i> will be italicized.

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<b> </b> Bold: makes your text go like this. It is used to show extreme emphasis and often yelling, occasionally used for ship names but rarely, it has the wrong sort of connotation.  You must put the </b> on the end of your bolded word or all your text after the <b> will be in bold.

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<a href=http://www.'whatever'.com> 'anchor' </a> Hyperlink: Links to another page like so. Alright, so where I put whatever you put the web address, you have to have the entire http://www.etc etc. . . or else it won't work. alright after that is your anchor, the piece of text that you want to have click-able, i used 'so' it can be anything you want, just be sure to put the </a> after it or there will be no link [Edit: Thanks Willt]. As far as i know you can have any amount of html coding in between

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<IMG SRC=' image source> Image: This displays an image, like so-

   
This has the enormous advantage over the the screen shot add because the pictures aren't distorted, you can post more than one and you don't waste our server space hosting the images. Also you may find the screen shot feature Kadann gave us simpler and easier to use, fine be that way.
Note that you should upload the a picture onto a free image hosting site like photobucket, also photobucket will give you the code to used to link to a picture, here's the one they gave me.

< img src="http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c192/sniping101/popeowned.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com">

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also, you make "<" and ">" on the comnet type &.l.t.;. and &.g.t.;. respectively and without the dots. [Edit: Thanks Yillis.]

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Alright, I think thats about it. Have fun and fix those bios. Sorry if this is else where on the site, but i couldn't find it. I know kip did some DHTML on the EC board, but it didn't go into bolds and italics and hyperlinking and such, so I thought this might be a handy resource, also the bios that are just blocks of text are hard to read and irritating.



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TRP/SSG Sniping101/4SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]

Storm you better get your ass in gear, cause Wildcard's gonna make it hot in here.

Vin Diesel has been known to have philosophical debates with R2D2.

" (I) Is always hatching plots against newlyweds; I mar the beauty of virgins and cause their hearts to grow cold"

<b>bold</b> = bold

snipes, ask me on IRC
 
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Wildcard you better hide your face, cause Storm is gonna rock this place.

Corporal Yillis
-=Lancer Squad=- -=ASL=- -=Moonbeam=-
ASL/CPL Yillis/2SQD/2PLT/1COM/1RGT/1BAT/VEA/VE/Tadath [LoR] [WM]
Rep/GameRep Yillis/GameRep: 6/Gaming Division/VET /VE

I forgot if this is a must, but don't you have to close your paragraphs? or is it the same either way?
 
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-(William the Conquerer)-
King of PPC
We are still here because we conquered our enemies, and we shall do it again!
XO/FL/SPO Willtconq/Kaph 5/Wing I/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE (=*A*=) (=*SA*=) [VC:B][SV]
Wm/Wm Willtconq/WM:1/Webmasters/VET/VE

Sticky?

Pretty much everything other then the breakline should be close.

Otherwise it can cause formating problems and look really wierd on some browsers.  Some can still understand enough of the code that you think it might work but if you go to a different browser, oh boy.

If anyone wants I can recommend some pretty deceant refference books for xhtml 1.0 strict.
 
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My sig banner I wish I could use
Kuroishi
Avatar and sig banner by scientist computer graphics subdivision of Clan Wombat.
5/13/2005-My journey to the Darkside is complete

So far there isn't anything that's different then what you posted.  When I get home I could e-mail the title of the books I had for my college web design class(probably no better then your own class really).

After all outside of class in the real world you do not have to use xhtml strict 1.0.  That's just what I was taught.
 
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My sig banner I wish I could use
Kuroishi
Avatar and sig banner by scientist computer graphics subdivision of Clan Wombat.
5/13/2005-My journey to the Darkside is complete

Since this place doesnt have a quote thingy, Wilt, i meant should this be stickied. And lo' and behold, it was!

lol where did you find the pope picture?
 
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TRP/PFC Sayah/1SQD/2 PLT/1 COM/1 RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA
[Black League]
SM/Com Sayah/Task Force 1/Eta Squad/2nd Platoon/Red Company/1st Battalion/KBcC Helsa/OFF/Army/RDA(L)

"And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."

http://bd1.battledawn.com/referx.php?serv=2&ref=5755

Heh, remember reading this when it first came out Jak? 

Anyways, I wouldn't bother commenting on Sayah, he posts on dead topics no matter how much we warn him so I've just stopped...
 
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In the brightest light,
We find darkness...
-=Wraith Squad=--=TRP=-
TRP/LCPL Tnepres/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/VE[LoR]
Memoirs of a Withered Soul- Compendium of Short Stories on Talstorin's Background/Story of Talstorin and Durandal( out now- read it on army story board)
Tnepres/HellKite
-=Wraith Squad PRIDE=-

Meh, wrote this before we had the BBCode and HTML was the only way of adding formatting to ones posts. Actually, still use it for alot of things like bolds and italics.