Magi_Gabriel
Foppish Technocrat
So, you want to enter a description that people can see huh? Well there's a few things you should now about the current system that allows you to improve the appears of your description and make it look as fun and interesting as possible.
Some of you have noticed that descriptions now allow you to highlight some text by making it bold, putting it in italics or even including a picture of their character. "How can I do these wonderful things!?" I'm glad you asked.
Descriptions now use some basic HTML tags that you can tag advantage of, the tags you can use are:
<b>,<strong>,<em>,<i>,<u> and <img>
Instructions for each feature follow below:
Bold Text
To highlight text as bold you enclose it in the <b> or <strong> tags as follows:
Which would result in:
It doesn't matter if you use <b> or <strong> they both work exactly the same.
Italic Text
To highlight text as italic you enclose it in the <i> or <em> tags as follows:
Which would appear as:
Underlined Text
To underline a portion of text enclose it in a <u> tag as follows:
Which would display as:
Now for something a little more complicated... images.
The tag format for an image is as follows, code is marked in bold, bits you have to enter in red.
<img src="image url" height="image height" width="image width" alt="Mouse over text[/b]" />[/b]
For example, suppose you wanted to include a postage stamp sized image of a dashingly handsome admin with strange silvery eyes:
<img src="http://www.enworld.org/image.php?u=34598&dateline=1129672021" height="80" width="80" alt="" />
Would result in:
To avoid the wrath of admins please follow these guidelines for images:
Images are to be no wider or taller than 400 pixels.
Images are to jpeg, gif or png format.
Images are NOT to be bmps or animated gifs. Just no.
Images cannot contain any content unacceptable by the Code of Conduct including graphic imagery, profanity, etc
Images are to be hosted on an agreeing server, if you don't have your own web space consider an image hosting service such as ImageShack or PhotoBucket.
Some of you have noticed that descriptions now allow you to highlight some text by making it bold, putting it in italics or even including a picture of their character. "How can I do these wonderful things!?" I'm glad you asked.
Descriptions now use some basic HTML tags that you can tag advantage of, the tags you can use are:
<b>,<strong>,<em>,<i>,<u> and <img>
Instructions for each feature follow below:
Bold Text
To highlight text as bold you enclose it in the <b> or <strong> tags as follows:
Which would result in:
It doesn't matter if you use <b> or <strong> they both work exactly the same.
Italic Text
To highlight text as italic you enclose it in the <i> or <em> tags as follows:
Which would appear as:
Underlined Text
To underline a portion of text enclose it in a <u> tag as follows:
Which would display as:
Now for something a little more complicated... images.
The tag format for an image is as follows, code is marked in bold, bits you have to enter in red.
<img src="image url" height="image height" width="image width" alt="Mouse over text[/b]" />[/b]
For example, suppose you wanted to include a postage stamp sized image of a dashingly handsome admin with strange silvery eyes:
<img src="http://www.enworld.org/image.php?u=34598&dateline=1129672021" height="80" width="80" alt="" />
Would result in:
To avoid the wrath of admins please follow these guidelines for images:
Images are to be no wider or taller than 400 pixels.
Images are to jpeg, gif or png format.
Images are NOT to be bmps or animated gifs. Just no.
Images cannot contain any content unacceptable by the Code of Conduct including graphic imagery, profanity, etc
Images are to be hosted on an agreeing server, if you don't have your own web space consider an image hosting service such as ImageShack or PhotoBucket.
