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Formatting your forum posts Written and performed by System
So your wanting to post on this site, got a sick build / idea for your race and want to reap the rewards
of e-fame available to you through the reputation system on Sc2Sea?

Well now you can post absolutely a post full of shit, and still get Crazerk's +rep. 100% Guaranteed

You want to make a guide on the forums? Write up a tournament post or just about anything
on the site? To not get an angry Crazerk on your tail, you might want to format your post.

So, here is a guide on all the formatting options available to the website, in a single easy
convenient location.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Basic Formatting
• Using BBCode
  
  • Bold, Italic and Underline
  • Font Style and Colouring
  • Linking elsewhere
  • Spoilers
  • Displaying Images
• Advanced Formatting
  • Font Alignment
  • Lists and Tables
  • Anchoring and linking to Anchors
• Smilies
• Using Maps
• Things to note
• Conclusion

Introduction to BBCode Top
BBCode or Bulletin Board Code is a lightweight markup language used to format posts in
many message boards. The available tags are usually indicated by square brackets ([ ])
surrounding a keyword, and they are parsed by the message board system before being
translated into a markup language that web browsers understand—usually HTML or XHTML.

Basic Formatting Top
The very basic type of formatting is the Bold, Itallic, and Underline.
Even if you stick to just using these 3 types of formatting for your posts, I guarantee Crazerk
will give you a reply that is nice. Might not give you the rep that your after, but with more
advanced formatting, your post will be looking spic and span.
We will also cover other ways to style your font and linking to images and YouTube videos in
this section!

Using BBCode Top
Using BBCode is exactly like splitting your workers at the start of a game.
It might seem hard at first, but the more you do it, the more it becomes natural!

So how to use it, like we stated in the introduction you format your code using square brackets with the
keyword inside.

What you type:

[b]Bolded text woo[/b]

What you get:

Bolded text woo

The same thing applies for Itallic and Underline formatting, instead of [b] you would use [i] and [u] respectively.

+ [Pro-tip] +

Make sure you close your brackets when your finished with your formatting on the specific text
or else the code will most likely not work and might stuff up other stuff you have.
Try to keep a mental note on what you have open and what you need to close

You: Alright System, thanks for that now I know how to bold headers and useful information
and format other information, but I have seen colourful headers like yours, how do I do those?
System:




You can change the formatting of the text even more to be more specific in terms of size, colour and
even font type.

Font type is really depended on what is installed into the Forum and that is up to Nirvana, as it sits
right now, the font style is fine to read and the default size for normal text. But where you have
headers and other specific things you would want larger font.

Font colour is changed through the [color=x][/color] tags where x is equal to the colour you want your text to be.

What you type:

[color=red]Red font![/color]

What you get:

Red font!

+ [Pro-Tip] +

Because Jesus invented the Internet and he is American make sure in your colour tag to spell it color.
Make sure you leave out the 'u' or else it won't work!

Also just recently Nirvana has added custom BBCode into the forums that allow us to have pre-formatted
text with lovely shades of various colours, like the headers I used above.

What you type:

[blue]Sick header mang[/blue]

What you get:

Sick header mang

+ [Pro-tip] +

That is just one of the many different colours made available for use for the headers. You can try yourself what colours there are
or visit this link to find out more!

URL Linking is again just as easy as bolding a block of text, simply use the [url] tags and your good to go.

What you type:

[url]www.sc2sea.com[/url] or [url="www.sc2sea.com"]Link behind text[/url]

What you get:

www.sc2sea.com or Link behind text

Email linking is also another use of linking, while it may not be useful for you, it will be useful for at least one
person reading this :P

What you type:

[email]systemsc2@hotmail.com[/email] or [email=systemsc2@hotmail.com]Hate mail goes here[/email]

What you get:

systemsc2@hotmail.com or Hate mail goes here

You can also embed a YouTube video into a forum post by using the [youtube] tags.
Important note about using the YouTube tags is that you want to only put inside the tags the video
code for video you want, and not the entire link.
You get the video code by looking up at you address bar on your browser and copying the assorted letters and numbers after the v= part.
Example,

You Tube

You Tube

so the code would be jtMv6V7ZvmE

+ [Pro-Tip] +

Sometimes, or more than often there will be more stuff in the address bar when your either watching
stuff from a playlist or have been linked to it from somewhere else. Thats no issue!
Remember to look for the ?v= in the link and copy the letters and numbers after that and up until the '&' symbol

What you type:

[youtube]jtMv6V7ZvmE[/youtube]

What you get:

System baby we love you!

Spoilers can be a big issue on major Starcraft websites when people come wanting to read stuff, and
not the actual results of the game, they can become upset and sad. So, this is where spoiler tags work wonders!

What you type:

[spoiler]HuK won MLG 2-0[/spoiler] or [spoiler=MLG Results]Huk won 2-0[/spoiler]

What you get:

+ Show +

HuK won MLG 2-0

or

+ [MLG Results] +

Huk won 2-0

+ [Pro-Tip] +

Spoilers can still be formatted from inside, and can be done so through the normal way

And lastly, showing Images is pretty much the same as linking a URL. Plain and simple.

What you type:

[img]http://img.perthstreetbikes.com/img/3/3/0/lolcat-funny-picture-moderator1.jpg[/img]

What you get:

The true face of Skybreaker!

That is pretty much the basics, you are now no longer a forum posting noob and can start to make your posts look amazing and readable.
Don't forget that proper grammar and paragraphs also go a long way!


Stick around for Part 2 where we will cover the more advanced side to BBCode usage and formatting!

Quick Comments

	Maynarde:	Nice!
	Eddie:
	:	S
	Bugalugs McScruffin:	Haha, why didn't I think of this first. System wins. And I haven't even read it yet. :)
	ToRPandarine:	appreciate the effort put into it for us n00bs :P
	nirvAnA:
	DtorR:	Probably the best explanation on how to format writing.
	Cyanide:	God sent post.
	ToRSpartaz:	I LOVE YOU SYSTEM! (No homo (: )
	lolwut:	:D
	TCPLemminks:	You're just lucky I didn't have internet and couldn't compete ^^
	MooZfY:	Really helped alot, thanks!
	ZiggyD:	Very helpful!
	ROOTPetraeus:	should probly rep this considering how much I've used it
	Delraich: