Posted by Jillianne on April 29, 2009, 10:59 pm
Message modified by board administrator April 30, 2009, 1:32 am

Firstly a quick posting lesson. There are two ways you can post on a board, with HTML tags ( <> ) or BB tags ( [] ) most boards use one or the other. Realm of Resin can accept both! So I'll divide this post into three sections, how to post with html, how to post with bb and how to get the board to encode it all for you. Please chose the tutes you'd prefer to read depending on the style you prefer to post in. How to's with BB tags ( [] ): How to post a text message on this board. How to post a reply to a message on this board. How to post a photo message in a message or reply on this board. How to post a photo story on this board. How to's with HTML tags ( <> ): How to post a text message on this board. How to post a reply to a message on this board. How to post a photo message in a message or reply on this board. How to post a photo story on this board. How to's get the board to make it's own stupid tags: How to post a text message on this board. How to post a reply to a message on this board. How to post a photo message in a message or reply on this board. How to post a photo story on this board. I hope this helps, please contact us if you have any questions! How to post a text message on this board: Scroll down to the bottom of the page where you'll find the 'Post a Message' section. It asks for your name and email. Your email address is not required but can help members to contact you offlist. Then fill out the 'subject' with a catchy headline that will help people identify what your post is about. Then type your message in the message box. How to post a reply to a message on this board: Open the message you would like to reply to. Scroll to the bottom of the message or click the 'Post a Response' link at the top of the page. The form asks for your name and email. Your email address is not required but can help members to contact you offlist. Usually one would begin the response in the 'subject' box then if needed continues in the message box. This makes it easier for people to read the replies. If you do need to continue usually one would put a > or ... to indicate the reply continues. How to post a photo in a message or reply on this board using HTML tags: (Begin the message as you would when posting a text message or reply.) Insert a picture using this html tag: <img src="image url"> The url for the image will vary depending on where it's hosted, but will look something like this: http://www.webhostaddress.com/image1.jpg Repeat this method as many times as you need to display all the pics you wish to. How to post a photo in a message or reply on this board using the buttons provided: (Begin the message as you would when posting a text message or reply.) click the image button at the bottom of the message box, it will display a text box below the message box. Enter your image url there. and click 'add'. The url for the image will vary depending on where it's hosted, but will look something like this: http://www.webhostaddress.com/image1.jpg How to post a photo in a message or reply on this board using BB tags: (Begin the message as you would when posting a text message or reply.) Insert the BB tag: [img]image url[/img] The url for the image will vary depending on where it's hosted, but will look something like this: http://www.webhostaddress.com/image1.jpg Repeat either of these methods as many times as you need to display all the pics you wish to. How to post a photo story on this board using HTML tags: (Begin the message as you would when posting a text message. Usually the subject would be your chapter title, if you are running several story archs at once you may like to mention which storyline it's from, or who the characters are.) There are a few html tags you will usually need to know to post a story. They are: The image tag: <img src="image url"> (as we store in the photo posting how to) Bold: <b> on and </b>off (many people highlight the speakers name with bold before their line.) And possibly Italics: <i> on and </i>off The common format when posting a photostory looks like this: <img src="http://www.webhostaddress.com/image1.jpg"> <b>Tom:</b> I love the summer, it's so warm and shiny. <b>Betty:</b> oh me too! <img src="http://www.webhostaddress.com/image2.jpg"> <b>Tom:</b> Though winter in nice too. <b>Betty:</b> oh yes I like winter too. <img src="http://www.webhostaddress.com/image3.jpg"> <b>Tom:</b> And Spring, that's real pretty. <b>Betty:</b> I do like all the flowers too. once you've submitted the story it should look something like this(you need to pretend there are real pictures): Tom: I love the summer, it's so warm and shiny. Betty: oh me too! Tom: Though winter in nice too. Betty: oh yes I like winter too. Tom: And Spring, that's real pretty. Betty: I do like all the flowers too. Of course you need not bold the characters names, or you may chose to add your dialogue directly into your pictures, or express your story without words at all. All are perfectly valid ways to express your story (after all it is YOUR story and you can lay it out how you want!). This is just an idea of the most common way. How to post a photo story on this board using BB tags: (Begin the message as you would when posting a text message. Usually the subject would be your chapter title, if you are running several story archs at once you may like to mention which storyline it's from, or who the characters are.) Click the Image button and insert your url in the box that appears (just as described in the photoposting how to) and click add. Type the text that relates to that picture. If you wish to bold, underline or italics any words highlight them with your mouse then click the button for that function. To insert your next image click the Image button and insert your url in the box that appears then click add. If the tag appears in the wrong spot you may need to highlight it and cut and paste it into the correct position, or click your mouse in fromt of the image tag and hit enter until it is far enough away from your text. Then repeat until all your pics are done How to post a photo story on this board using BB tags: (Begin the message as you would when posting a text message. Usually the subject would be your chapter title, if you are running several story archs at once you may like to mention which storyline it's from, or who the characters are.) There are a few BB tags you will usually need to know to post a story. They are: The image tag: [img]image url[/img] (as we store in the photo posting how to) Bold: [b] on and [/b]off (many people highlight the speakers name with bold before their line.) And possibly Italics: [i] on and [/i]off When you are done your message should look a little like this: [img]http://www.webhostaddress.com/image1.jpg[/img] [b]Tom:[/b] I love the summer, it's so warm and shiny. [b]Betty:[/b] oh me too! [img]http://www.webhostaddress.com/image2.jpg[/img] [b]Tom:[/b] Though winter in nice too. [b]Betty:[/b] oh yes I like winter too. [img]http://www.webhostaddress.com/image3.jpg[/img] [b]Tom:[/b] And Spring, that's real pretty. [b]Betty:[/b] I do like all the flowers too. once you've submitted the story it should look something like this(you need to pretend there are real pictures): Tom: I love the summer, it's so warm and shiny. Betty: oh me too! Tom: Though winter in nice too. Betty: oh yes I like winter too. Tom: And Spring, that's real pretty. Betty: I do like all the flowers too. Of course you need not bold the characters names, or you may chose to add your dialogue directly into your pictures, or express your story without words at all. All are perfectly valid ways to express your story (after all it is YOUR story and you can lay it out how you want!). This is just an idea of the most common way.