I see where people were wandering about this so i pulled it from my Archives Its a Great tool that we all can use to make our posts better and easier to read.. Hope you guys save this to your favorites.
What I did was Copy and paste this to an Email I then saved the email so in another window I can open my email to this Post... and reference it as I post my CCOM Posts that nbeed these types of formats it works for me........ Thanks to the BOTL that put this together...
Peace
Ozzie
rad1964:
I thought I would make a post describing HOW TO FORMAT YOUR POST.
After doing a quick seach in the forum, I noticed that madurofan had once mentioned some basics, I thought I would give any one who desires the POWER to format their posts.
This comes in handy for those with longer posts so that they can seperate sentences where one ends and another starts (makes reading easier too). And also call attention to important words or parts of their sentences.
==========LINE BREAKS==========
Adding<br> after a sentence will create one line break. The same as hitting ENTER on a typewriter/keyboard.
Adding<br><br> after a sentence will create two line breaks. The same as hitting ENTER twice on a typewriter/keyboard.
==========BOLDING==========
Adding<b> before a word and a </b> after the word will BOLD the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <b>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</b> (when you post it you will see the BOLDED word.
==========ITALICIZING==========
Adding<i> before a word and a </i> after the word will ITALICIZE the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <i>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</i> (when you post it you will see the ITALICIZED word.
==========FONT SIZE==========
Addingsize="4" inside your font tag will change your font size. Personally I wouldn't bump the font size beyond 8 on this forum, because it could get annoying and unreadable.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font size="4">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the Font Size change.
==========COLOR==========
Adding<font color="blue"> before a word and a </font> after the word will COLOR the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font color="purple">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the COLORED word.
Some of the 'named' colors that work in this manner are:
NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting codetarget="_blank" does not have to be included, but what I have learned in my years of coding is that it is best to add this in there because it opens up a new page insted of loading the link into your current page. Which means you lose cigar.com and go to the other page, but with target="_blank" in the code it leaves cigar.com page open and opens a new page for you.
==========IMAGES==========
To display an image, you need to know the exact "path" or "URL" to the image on a server. For instance, if you see an image you like, right click on it and "view properties". You will see the image's path or URL. Copy it down, by selecting it (left click and hold in the button on your mouse when you are at the start of the URL, while dragging towards the end of the URL, highlighting it. You then press your keyboards's ctrl keypad (usually the most left and lowest key) and the C key at the same time (CTRL + C). This copies the URL or whatever is highlighted to your CLIPBOARD. The clipboard is invisible and will hold whatever the last thing you highlighted and copied.
Adding an image from a website - Add the following code - <img src="http://img.cigar.com/p/500/cs/s/cs-s7a-view2.jpg"> anywhere on your post and when you post your post, you should see the IMAGE. (Of course you need to swap out the URL I have in there for your own)
You should probably add two <br> tags before and after your img tag so any words that accompany it will be either above the image or below the image and not floating off to the side of the image.
Exp. -
When I want to show off a photo I took myself and post it here on Cigar.com, I need to upload my image to a server (any server) and then find the path or URL of the image. I have my own website fortunately and here's my URL: http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg
Any image you link to should not be to wide, because this websites displayable width is around 790 pixels (790 px = @11 inches).
(600 px = @7 inches).
PS - You can also combine a few of the tags together. (bold, color, italicized)
Try adding bold and a color! For best results open and close the tags in the order they appear.
<font color="blue"><b></b></font>
==========HTML ENTITIES==========
HTML Entities are simply code that represent certain symbols.
Here are a few common ones:
There's many more tricks and formatting options you can do. These are only the basics. I will add more to this post as it becomes pertinent.
It would also be great if there was a way to make a post a sticky. Perhaps a Moderator or a vote. If the forum doesn't support Stickys, then perhaps with enough views, certain posts can be identified, the ones that get tons of views, and maybe they can create a new forum group called FAQs or STICKYs.
Thought I'd go ahead and post a few emoticons, aka smilies for folks to use. These come from my gaming website. Enjoy.
Ok hello all I know i am new here and have to say this is very helpful with starting to write and post to others. But i have a small question that i don't think was addressed. I notice in some post that when someone comments on anothers post it will sometimes include what they had said. well i was wondering how you do that? I had commented on something one of the guys said about my post and it now ended up completely seperate from everything else that was said. I wasn't sure if i am doing things right or if there was to many comments placed on it already? any help is great and thanks.
Beavr
welcome beaver, the option you are speaking of is the quote. if you click the quote button it lists what previous users have said and then adds what you type under that. hope this helps brother!
I notice in some post that when someone comments on anothers post it will sometimes include what they had said.
Beavr
Hit the quote button instead of reply. Go to the end of their quote and type your response. You can also narrow down what they've said and actually change their quote.
I see where people were wandering about this so i pulled it from my Archives Its a Great tool that we all can use to make our posts better and easier to read.. Hope you guys save this to your favorites.
What I did was Copy and paste this to an Email I then saved the email so in another window I can open my email to this Post... and reference it as I post my CCOM Posts that nbeed these types of formats it works for me........ Thanks to the BOTL that put this together...
Peace
Ozzie
rad1964:
I thought I would make a post describing HOW TO FORMAT YOUR POST.
After doing a quick seach in the forum, I noticed that madurofan had once mentioned some basics, I thought I would give any one who desires the POWER to format their posts.
This comes in handy for those with longer posts so that they can seperate sentences where one ends and another starts (makes reading easier too). And also call attention to important words or parts of their sentences.
==========LINE BREAKS==========
Adding<br> after a sentence will create one line break. The same as hitting ENTER on a typewriter/keyboard.
Adding<br><br> after a sentence will create two line breaks. The same as hitting ENTER twice on a typewriter/keyboard.
==========BOLDING==========
Adding<b> before a word and a </b> after the word will BOLD the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <b>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</b> (when you post it you will see the BOLDED word.
==========ITALICIZING==========
Adding<i> before a word and a </i> after the word will ITALICIZE the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <i>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</i> (when you post it you will see the ITALICIZED word.
==========FONT SIZE==========
Addingsize="4" inside your font tag will change your font size. Personally I wouldn't bump the font size beyond 8 on this forum, because it could get annoying and unreadable.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font size="4">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the Font Size change.
==========COLOR==========
Adding<font color="blue"> before a word and a </font> after the word will COLOR the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font color="purple">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the COLORED word.
Some of the 'named' colors that work in this manner are:
NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting codetarget="_blank" does not have to be included, but what I have learned in my years of coding is that it is best to add this in there because it opens up a new page insted of loading the link into your current page. Which means you lose cigar.com and go to the other page, but with target="_blank" in the code it leaves cigar.com page open and opens a new page for you.
==========IMAGES==========
To display an image, you need to know the exact "path" or "URL" to the image on a server. For instance, if you see an image you like, right click on it and "view properties". You will see the image's path or URL. Copy it down, by selecting it (left click and hold in the button on your mouse when you are at the start of the URL, while dragging towards the end of the URL, highlighting it. You then press your keyboards's ctrl keypad (usually the most left and lowest key) and the C key at the same time (CTRL + C). This copies the URL or whatever is highlighted to your CLIPBOARD. The clipboard is invisible and will hold whatever the last thing you highlighted and copied.
Adding an image from a website - Add the following code - <img src="http://img.cigar.com/p/500/cs/s/cs-s7a-view2.jpg"> anywhere on your post and when you post your post, you should see the IMAGE. (Of course you need to swap out the URL I have in there for your own)
You should probably add two <br> tags before and after your img tag so any words that accompany it will be either above the image or below the image and not floating off to the side of the image.
Exp. -
When I want to show off a photo I took myself and post it here on Cigar.com, I need to upload my image to a server (any server) and then find the path or URL of the image. I have my own website fortunately and here's my URL: http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg
Any image you link to should not be to wide, because this websites displayable width is around 790 pixels (790 px = @11 inches).
(600 px = @7 inches).
PS - You can also combine a few of the tags together. (bold, color, italicized)
Try adding bold and a color! For best results open and close the tags in the order they appear.
<font color="blue"><b></b></font>
==========HTML ENTITIES==========
HTML Entities are simply code that represent certain symbols.
Here are a few common ones:
There's many more tricks and formatting options you can do. These are only the basics. I will add more to this post as it becomes pertinent.
It would also be great if there was a way to make a post a sticky. Perhaps a Moderator or a vote. If the forum doesn't support Stickys, then perhaps with enough views, certain posts can be identified, the ones that get tons of views, and maybe they can create a new forum group called FAQs or STICKYs.
Thought I'd go ahead and post a few emoticons, aka smilies for folks to use. These come from my gaming website. Enjoy.
I see where people were wandering about this so i pulled it from my Archives Its a Great tool that we all can use to make our posts better and easier to read.. Hope you guys save this to your favorites.
What I did was Copy and paste this to an Email I then saved the email so in another window I can open my email to this Post... and reference it as I post my CCOM Posts that nbeed these types of formats it works for me........ Thanks to the BOTL that put this together...
Peace
Ozzie
rad1964:
I thought I would make a post describing HOW TO FORMAT YOUR POST.
After doing a quick seach in the forum, I noticed that madurofan had once mentioned some basics, I thought I would give any one who desires the POWER to format their posts.
This comes in handy for those with longer posts so that they can seperate sentences where one ends and another starts (makes reading easier too). And also call attention to important words or parts of their sentences.
==========LINE BREAKS==========
Adding<br> after a sentence will create one line break. The same as hitting ENTER on a typewriter/keyboard.
Adding<br><br> after a sentence will create two line breaks. The same as hitting ENTER twice on a typewriter/keyboard.
==========BOLDING==========
Adding<b> before a word and a </b> after the word will BOLD the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <b>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</b> (when you post it you will see the BOLDED word.
==========ITALICIZING==========
Adding<i> before a word and a </i> after the word will ITALICIZE the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <i>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</i> (when you post it you will see the ITALICIZED word.
==========FONT SIZE==========
Addingsize="4" inside your font tag will change your font size. Personally I wouldn't bump the font size beyond 8 on this forum, because it could get annoying and unreadable.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font size="4">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the Font Size change.
==========COLOR==========
Adding<font color="blue"> before a word and a </font> after the word will COLOR the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font color="purple">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the COLORED word.
Some of the 'named' colors that work in this manner are:
NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting codetarget="_blank" does not have to be included, but what I have learned in my years of coding is that it is best to add this in there because it opens up a new page insted of loading the link into your current page. Which means you lose cigar.com and go to the other page, but with target="_blank" in the code it leaves cigar.com page open and opens a new page for you.
==========IMAGES==========
To display an image, you need to know the exact "path" or "URL" to the image on a server. For instance, if you see an image you like, right click on it and "view properties". You will see the image's path or URL. Copy it down, by selecting it (left click and hold in the button on your mouse when you are at the start of the URL, while dragging towards the end of the URL, highlighting it. You then press your keyboards's ctrl keypad (usually the most left and lowest key) and the C key at the same time (CTRL + C). This copies the URL or whatever is highlighted to your CLIPBOARD. The clipboard is invisible and will hold whatever the last thing you highlighted and copied.
Adding an image from a website - Add the following code - <img src="http://img.cigar.com/p/500/cs/s/cs-s7a-view2.jpg"> anywhere on your post and when you post your post, you should see the IMAGE. (Of course you need to swap out the URL I have in there for your own)
You should probably add two <br> tags before and after your img tag so any words that accompany it will be either above the image or below the image and not floating off to the side of the image.
Exp. -
When I want to show off a photo I took myself and post it here on Cigar.com, I need to upload my image to a server (any server) and then find the path or URL of the image. I have my own website fortunately and here's my URL: http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg
Any image you link to should not be to wide, because this websites displayable width is around 790 pixels (790 px = @11 inches).
(600 px = @7 inches).
PS - You can also combine a few of the tags together. (bold, color, italicized)
Try adding bold and a color! For best results open and close the tags in the order they appear.
<font color="blue"><b></b></font>
==========HTML ENTITIES==========
HTML Entities are simply code that represent certain symbols.
Here are a few common ones:
There's many more tricks and formatting options you can do. These are only the basics. I will add more to this post as it becomes pertinent.
It would also be great if there was a way to make a post a sticky. Perhaps a Moderator or a vote. If the forum doesn't support Stickys, then perhaps with enough views, certain posts can be identified, the ones that get tons of views, and maybe they can create a new forum group called FAQs or STICKYs.
Thought I'd go ahead and post a few emoticons, aka smilies for folks to use. These come from my gaming website. Enjoy.
I thought I would make a post describing HOW TO FORMAT YOUR POST.
After doing a quick seach in the forum, I noticed that madurofan had once mentioned some basics, I thought I would give any one who desires the POWER to format their posts.
This comes in handy for those with longer posts so that they can seperate sentences where one ends and another starts (makes reading easier too). And also call attention to important words or parts of their sentences.
==========LINE BREAKS==========
Adding<br> after a sentence will create one line break. The same as hitting ENTER on a typewriter/keyboard.
Adding<br><br> after a sentence will create two line breaks. The same as hitting ENTER twice on a typewriter/keyboard.
==========BOLDING==========
Adding<b> before a word and a </b> after the word will BOLD the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <b>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</b> (when you post it you will see the BOLDED word.
==========ITALICIZING==========
Adding<i> before a word and a </i> after the word will ITALICIZE the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <i>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</i> (when you post it you will see the ITALICIZED word.
==========FONT SIZE==========
Addingsize="4" inside your font tag will change your font size. Personally I wouldn't bump the font size beyond 8 on this forum, because it could get annoying and unreadable.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font size="4">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the Font Size change.
==========COLOR==========
Adding<font color="blue"> before a word and a </font> after the word will COLOR the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font color="purple">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the COLORED word.
Some of the 'named' colors that work in this manner are:
NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting codetarget="_blank" does not have to be included, but what I have learned in my years of coding is that it is best to add this in there because it opens up a new page insted of loading the link into your current page. Which means you lose cigar.com and go to the other page, but with target="_blank" in the code it leaves cigar.com page open and opens a new page for you.
==========IMAGES==========
To display an image, you need to know the exact "path" or "URL" to the image on a server. For instance, if you see an image you like, right click on it and "view properties". You will see the image's path or URL. Copy it down, by selecting it (left click and hold in the button on your mouse when you are at the start of the URL, while dragging towards the end of the URL, highlighting it. You then press your keyboards's ctrl keypad (usually the most left and lowest key) and the C key at the same time (CTRL + C). This copies the URL or whatever is highlighted to your CLIPBOARD. The clipboard is invisible and will hold whatever the last thing you highlighted and copied.
Adding an image from a website - Add the following code - <img src="http://img.cigar.com/p/500/cs/s/cs-s7a-view2.jpg"> anywhere on your post and when you post your post, you should see the IMAGE. (Of course you need to swap out the URL I have in there for your own)
You should probably add two <br> tags before and after your img tag so any words that accompany it will be either above the image or below the image and not floating off to the side of the image.
Exp. -
When I want to show off a photo I took myself and post it here on Cigar.com, I need to upload my image to a server (any server) and then find the path or URL of the image. I have my own website fortunately and here's my URL: http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg
Any image you link to should not be to wide, because this websites displayable width is around 790 pixels (790 px = @11 inches).
(600 px = @7 inches).
PS - You can also combine a few of the tags together. (bold, color, italicized)
Try adding bold and a color! For best results open and close the tags in the order they appear.
<font color="blue"><b></b></font>
==========HTML ENTITIES==========
HTML Entities are simply code that represent certain symbols.
Here are a few common ones:
There's many more tricks and formatting options you can do. These are only the basics. I will add more to this post as it becomes pertinent.
It would also be great if there was a way to make a post a sticky. Perhaps a Moderator or a vote. If the forum doesn't support Stickys, then perhaps with enough views, certain posts can be identified, the ones that get tons of views, and maybe they can create a new forum group called FAQs or STICKYs.
Thought I'd go ahead and post a few emoticons, aka smilies for folks to use. These come from my gaming website. Enjoy.
I thought I would make a post describing HOW TO FORMAT YOUR POST.
After doing a quick seach in the forum, I noticed that madurofan had once mentioned some basics, I thought I would give any one who desires the POWER to format their posts.
This comes in handy for those with longer posts so that they can seperate sentences where one ends and another starts (makes reading easier too). And also call attention to important words or parts of their sentences.
==========LINE BREAKS==========
Adding<br> after a sentence will create one line break. The same as hitting ENTER on a typewriter/keyboard.
Adding<br><br> after a sentence will create two line breaks. The same as hitting ENTER twice on a typewriter/keyboard.
==========BOLDING==========
Adding<b> before a word and a </b> after the word will BOLD the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <b>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</b> (when you post it you will see the BOLDED word.
==========ITALICIZING==========
Adding<i> before a word and a </i> after the word will ITALICIZE the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <i>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</i> (when you post it you will see the ITALICIZED word.
==========FONT SIZE==========
Addingsize="4" inside your font tag will change your font size. Personally I wouldn't bump the font size beyond 8 on this forum, because it could get annoying and unreadable.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font size="4">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the Font Size change.
==========COLOR==========
Adding<font color="blue"> before a word and a </font> after the word will COLOR the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font color="purple">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the COLORED word.
Some of the 'named' colors that work in this manner are:
NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting codetarget="_blank" does not have to be included, but what I have learned in my years of coding is that it is best to add this in there because it opens up a new page insted of loading the link into your current page. Which means you lose cigar.com and go to the other page, but with target="_blank" in the code it leaves cigar.com page open and opens a new page for you.
==========IMAGES==========
To display an image, you need to know the exact "path" or "URL" to the image on a server. For instance, if you see an image you like, right click on it and "view properties". You will see the image's path or URL. Copy it down, by selecting it (left click and hold in the button on your mouse when you are at the start of the URL, while dragging towards the end of the URL, highlighting it. You then press your keyboards's ctrl keypad (usually the most left and lowest key) and the C key at the same time (CTRL + C). This copies the URL or whatever is highlighted to your CLIPBOARD. The clipboard is invisible and will hold whatever the last thing you highlighted and copied.
Adding an image from a website - Add the following code - <img src="http://img.cigar.com/p/500/cs/s/cs-s7a-view2.jpg"> anywhere on your post and when you post your post, you should see the IMAGE. (Of course you need to swap out the URL I have in there for your own)
You should probably add two <br> tags before and after your img tag so any words that accompany it will be either above the image or below the image and not floating off to the side of the image.
Exp. -
When I want to show off a photo I took myself and post it here on Cigar.com, I need to upload my image to a server (any server) and then find the path or URL of the image. I have my own website fortunately and here's my URL: http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg
Any image you link to should not be to wide, because this websites displayable width is around 790 pixels (790 px = @11 inches).
(600 px = @7 inches).
PS - You can also combine a few of the tags together. (bold, color, italicized)
Try adding bold and a color! For best results open and close the tags in the order they appear.
<font color="blue"><b></b></font>
==========HTML ENTITIES==========
HTML Entities are simply code that represent certain symbols.
Here are a few common ones:
There's many more tricks and formatting options you can do. These are only the basics. I will add more to this post as it becomes pertinent.
It would also be great if there was a way to make a post a sticky. Perhaps a Moderator or a vote. If the forum doesn't support Stickys, then perhaps with enough views, certain posts can be identified, the ones that get tons of views, and maybe they can create a new forum group called FAQs or STICKYs.
Thought I'd go ahead and post a few emoticons, aka smilies for folks to use. These come from my gaming website. Enjoy.
I thought I would make a post describing HOW TO FORMAT YOUR POST.
After doing a quick seach in the forum, I noticed that madurofan had once mentioned some basics, I thought I would give any one who desires the POWER to format their posts.
This comes in handy for those with longer posts so that they can seperate sentences where one ends and another starts (makes reading easier too). And also call attention to important words or parts of their sentences.
==========LINE BREAKS==========
Adding<br> after a sentence will create one line break. The same as hitting ENTER on a typewriter/keyboard.
Adding<br><br> after a sentence will create two line breaks. The same as hitting ENTER twice on a typewriter/keyboard.
==========BOLDING==========
Adding<b> before a word and a </b> after the word will BOLD the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <b>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</b> (when you post it you will see the BOLDED word.
==========ITALICIZING==========
Adding<i> before a word and a </i> after the word will ITALICIZE the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <i>Sancho Panza Double Maduro</i> (when you post it you will see the ITALICIZED word.
==========FONT SIZE==========
Addingsize="4" inside your font tag will change your font size. Personally I wouldn't bump the font size beyond 8 on this forum, because it could get annoying and unreadable.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font size="4">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the Font Size change.
==========COLOR==========
Adding<font color="blue"> before a word and a </font> after the word will COLOR the word.
Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <font color="purple">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</font> (when you post it you will see the COLORED word.
Some of the 'named' colors that work in this manner are:
NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting codetarget="_blank" does not have to be included, but what I have learned in my years of coding is that it is best to add this in there because it opens up a new page insted of loading the link into your current page. Which means you lose cigar.com and go to the other page, but with target="_blank" in the code it leaves cigar.com page open and opens a new page for you.
==========IMAGES==========
To display an image, you need to know the exact "path" or "URL" to the image on a server. For instance, if you see an image you like, right click on it and "view properties". You will see the image's path or URL. Copy it down, by selecting it (left click and hold in the button on your mouse when you are at the start of the URL, while dragging towards the end of the URL, highlighting it. You then press your keyboards's ctrl keypad (usually the most left and lowest key) and the C key at the same time (CTRL + C). This copies the URL or whatever is highlighted to your CLIPBOARD. The clipboard is invisible and will hold whatever the last thing you highlighted and copied.
Adding an image from a website - Add the following code - <img src="http://img.cigar.com/p/500/cs/s/cs-s7a-view2.jpg"> anywhere on your post and when you post your post, you should see the IMAGE. (Of course you need to swap out the URL I have in there for your own)
You should probably add two <br> tags before and after your img tag so any words that accompany it will be either above the image or below the image and not floating off to the side of the image.
Exp. -
When I want to show off a photo I took myself and post it here on Cigar.com, I need to upload my image to a server (any server) and then find the path or URL of the image. I have my own website fortunately and here's my URL: http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg
Any image you link to should not be to wide, because this websites displayable width is around 790 pixels (790 px = @11 inches).
(600 px = @7 inches).
PS - You can also combine a few of the tags together. (bold, color, italicized)
Try adding bold and a color! For best results open and close the tags in the order they appear.
<font color="blue"><b></b></font>
==========HTML ENTITIES==========
HTML Entities are simply code that represent certain symbols.
Here are a few common ones:
There's many more tricks and formatting options you can do. These are only the basics. I will add more to this post as it becomes pertinent.
It would also be great if there was a way to make a post a sticky. Perhaps a Moderator or a vote. If the forum doesn't support Stickys, then perhaps with enough views, certain posts can be identified, the ones that get tons of views, and maybe they can create a new forum group called FAQs or STICKYs.
Thought I'd go ahead and post a few emoticons, aka smilies for folks to use. These come from my gaming website. Enjoy.
THE EASY WAY to post a Youtube video, in 4 simple steps:
Open the Youtube video page in your internet browser then:
1) Click the Share button below the video - (circled in red below)
2) Click Embed - (circled in green below)
3) Check the box that says Use old embed code - (circled in blue below)
4) Copy the resulting Code - (circled in yellow below) and paste it into your forum post.
I could use a little assistance....Can't figure out the instructions for posting a picture to my message box for a posting. I have never used photobucket. And I'm sure that is a viable website to post from... However, I am trying to use my PC desktop and clicking on properties for a "URL"...that doesn't seem to work either. HELP ! !
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yeah,what he said!!!! lol
Last night on the deck
I revisit this on a regular basis. I'm not one bit ashamed of it either!
It's a lifesaver, IMHO.
==========YOUTUBE VIDEOS==========
THE EASY WAY to post a Youtube video, in 4 simple steps:
Open the Youtube video page in your internet browser then:
1) Click the Share button below the video - (circled in red below)
2) Click Embed - (circled in green below)
3) Check the box that says Use old embed code - (circled in blue below)
4) Copy the resulting Code - (circled in yellow below) and paste it into your forum post.
Visual "How To" Guide:
The resulting, embedded video should look like this: