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  • ThewelderThewelder Posts: 682 ✭✭
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  • Thanks for posting this rad. My posts should be more aesthetically pleasing thanks to you.
  • MVW67MVW67 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭✭
    Redtailhawkoz:
    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==========

    Adding size="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:

    aqua
    gray
    navy
    silver
    black
    green
    olive
    teal
    blue
    lime
    purple
    white
    fuchsia
    maroon
    red
    yellow
    There are other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    ==========LINKS==========

    Adding <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> before a word and a </a> after the word will make that word a LINK that goes to a web page.

    Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <a href="http://www.cigar.com/cigars/viewcigar.asp?brand=668" target="_blank">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</a> (when you post it you will see the LINKED word.

    NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting code target="_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. -

    image

    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).

    Here's my example:

    <br><br><img src="http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg"><br><br>

    image

    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:

    © = &copy;
    ® = &reg;
    ¢ = &cent;
    ½ = &frac12;
    é = &eacute;
    And the often abused         = &nbsp;
    (Yes, that spot is supposed to be blank)

    (I put 8 of the &nbsp; in order to get that space)
    (8 pixels worth)
    One &nbsp; equals 1 pixel of blank space
    (72 pixels = @ 1 inch)


    There are many other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    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.


    Use this code here and substitute the "number_of_the_smiley_goes_here" with the number of the smilie you want to use.
    <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/number_of_the_smiley_goes_here.gif">

    Exp. pasting the following code into your post <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/14.gif"> will result in this: image

    Smiley list A
    Smiley list B

    Bump
    Life is too short, live it like no tomorrow...
  • 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
  • Un_SubUn_Sub Posts: 210
    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!
  • DSWarmackDSWarmack Posts: 1,426
    Beavr81:
    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.
  • Un_SubUn_Sub Posts: 210
    DSWarmack:
    Beavr81:
    I notice in some post that when someone comments on anothers post it will sometimes include what they had said. Beavr
    Hit the button instead of the end of their response. narrow down their quote.

    yeah,what he said!!!! lol
  • Un_Sub:
    DSWarmack:
    Beavr81:
    I notice in some post that when someone comments on anothers post it will sometimes include what they had said. Beavr
    Hit the button instead of the end of their response. narrow down their quote.

    yeah,what he said!!!! lol
    Trying this out... LOL hey thanks everyone for your help. I really appreciate all the help.
  • MVW67MVW67 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭✭
    That's what everybody is here for!!!!
    Life is too short, live it like no tomorrow...
  • MVW67MVW67 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭✭
    Redtailhawkoz:
    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==========

    Adding size="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:

    aqua
    gray
    navy
    silver
    black
    green
    olive
    teal
    blue
    lime
    purple
    white
    fuchsia
    maroon
    red
    yellow
    There are other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    ==========LINKS==========

    Adding <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> before a word and a </a> after the word will make that word a LINK that goes to a web page.

    Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <a href="http://www.cigar.com/cigars/viewcigar.asp?brand=668" target="_blank">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</a> (when you post it you will see the LINKED word.

    NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting code target="_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. -

    image

    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).

    Here's my example:

    <br><br><img src="http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg"><br><br>

    image

    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:

    © = &copy;
    ® = &reg;
    ¢ = &cent;
    ½ = &frac12;
    é = &eacute;
    And the often abused         = &nbsp;
    (Yes, that spot is supposed to be blank)

    (I put 8 of the &nbsp; in order to get that space)
    (8 pixels worth)
    One &nbsp; equals 1 pixel of blank space
    (72 pixels = @ 1 inch)


    There are many other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    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.


    Use this code here and substitute the "number_of_the_smiley_goes_here" with the number of the smilie you want to use.
    <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/number_of_the_smiley_goes_here.gif">

    Exp. pasting the following code into your post <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/14.gif"> will result in this: image

    Smiley list A
    Smiley list B

    Back to the top 1
    Life is too short, live it like no tomorrow...
  • MVW67MVW67 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭✭
    MVW67:
    Redtailhawkoz:
    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==========

    Adding size="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:

    aqua
    gray
    navy
    silver
    black
    green
    olive
    teal
    blue
    lime
    purple
    white
    fuchsia
    maroon
    red
    yellow
    There are other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    ==========LINKS==========

    Adding <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> before a word and a </a> after the word will make that word a LINK that goes to a web page.

    Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <a href="http://www.cigar.com/cigars/viewcigar.asp?brand=668" target="_blank">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</a> (when you post it you will see the LINKED word.

    NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting code target="_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. -

    image

    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).

    Here's my example:

    <br><br><img src="http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg"><br><br>

    image

    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:

    © = &copy;
    ® = &reg;
    ¢ = &cent;
    ½ = &frac12;
    é = &eacute;
    And the often abused         = &nbsp;
    (Yes, that spot is supposed to be blank)

    (I put 8 of the &nbsp; in order to get that space)
    (8 pixels worth)
    One &nbsp; equals 1 pixel of blank space
    (72 pixels = @ 1 inch)


    There are many other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    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.


    Use this code here and substitute the "number_of_the_smiley_goes_here" with the number of the smilie you want to use.
    <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/number_of_the_smiley_goes_here.gif">

    Exp. pasting the following code into your post <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/14.gif"> will result in this: image

    Smiley list A
    Smiley list B

    Back to the top 1
    +1
    Life is too short, live it like no tomorrow...
  • jgibvjgibv Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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==========

    Adding size="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:

    aqua
    gray
    navy
    silver
    black
    green
    olive
    teal
    blue
    lime
    purple
    white
    fuchsia
    maroon
    red
    yellow
    There are other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    ==========LINKS==========

    Adding <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> before a word and a </a> after the word will make that word a LINK that goes to a web page.

    Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <a href="http://www.cigar.com/cigars/viewcigar.asp?brand=668" target="_blank">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</a> (when you post it you will see the LINKED word.

    NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting code target="_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. -

    image

    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).

    Here's my example:

    <br><br><img src="http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg"><br><br>

    image

    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:

    © = &copy;
    ® = &reg;
    ¢ = &cent;
    ½ = &frac12;
    é = &eacute;
    And the often abused         = &nbsp;
    (Yes, that spot is supposed to be blank)

    (I put 8 of the &nbsp; in order to get that space)
    (8 pixels worth)
    One &nbsp; equals 1 pixel of blank space
    (72 pixels = @ 1 inch)


    There are many other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    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.


    Use this code here and substitute the "number_of_the_smiley_goes_here" with the number of the smilie you want to use.
    <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/number_of_the_smiley_goes_here.gif">

    Exp. pasting the following code into your post <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/14.gif"> will result in this: image

    Smiley list A
    Smiley list B

    BUMP BUMP BUMP it up!

    * I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *

  • jgibvjgibv Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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==========

    Adding size="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:

    aqua
    gray
    navy
    silver
    black
    green
    olive
    teal
    blue
    lime
    purple
    white
    fuchsia
    maroon
    red
    yellow
    There are other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    ==========LINKS==========

    Adding <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> before a word and a </a> after the word will make that word a LINK that goes to a web page.

    Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <a href="http://www.cigar.com/cigars/viewcigar.asp?brand=668" target="_blank">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</a> (when you post it you will see the LINKED word.

    NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting code target="_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. -

    image

    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).

    Here's my example:

    <br><br><img src="http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg"><br><br>

    image

    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:

    © = &copy;
    ® = &reg;
    ¢ = &cent;
    ½ = &frac12;
    é = &eacute;
    And the often abused         = &nbsp;
    (Yes, that spot is supposed to be blank)

    (I put 8 of the &nbsp; in order to get that space)
    (8 pixels worth)
    One &nbsp; equals 1 pixel of blank space
    (72 pixels = @ 1 inch)


    There are many other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    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.


    Use this code here and substitute the "number_of_the_smiley_goes_here" with the number of the smilie you want to use.
    <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/number_of_the_smiley_goes_here.gif">

    Exp. pasting the following code into your post <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/14.gif"> will result in this: image

    Smiley list A
    Smiley list B

    had to stop by for the smiley face code...figured it could use a little bump

    * I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *

  • jadeltjadelt Posts: 763 ✭✭
    Test of posting a picture.... thanks for the formatting tips !!! image

    Last night on the deck
  • MVW67MVW67 Posts: 5,591 ✭✭✭✭
    Pretty good!:-)
    Life is too short, live it like no tomorrow...
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bump
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • SleevePlzSleevePlz Posts: 6,249 ✭✭✭✭
    Top
    LLA - Lancero Lovers of America
  • pelirrojopelirrojo Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭
    Bump for fellow noobs.
  • scarlinscarlin Posts: 1,592
    Bump. Almost couldn't find this.
  • pelirrojopelirrojo Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭
    scarlin:
    Bump. Almost couldn't find this.


    I revisit this on a regular basis. I'm not one bit ashamed of it either!
  • jgibvjgibv Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bump, & put this in your bookmarks if you haven't yet.
    It's a lifesaver, IMHO.

    * I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *

  • beatnicbeatnic Posts: 4,133
    Bump
  • jgibvjgibv Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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==========

    Adding size="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:

    aqua
    gray
    navy
    silver
    black
    green
    olive
    teal
    blue
    lime
    purple
    white
    fuchsia
    maroon
    red
    yellow
    There are other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    ==========LINKS==========

    Adding <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> before a word and a </a> after the word will make that word a LINK that goes to a web page.

    Exp. - I really love the Sancho Panza Double Maduro. All you have to do is this - I really love the <a href="http://www.cigar.com/cigars/viewcigar.asp?brand=668" target="_blank">Sancho Panza Double Maduro</a> (when you post it you will see the LINKED word.

    NOTE: Although adding this <a href="http://www.cigars.com" target="_blank"> the part of this formatting code target="_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. -

    image

    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).

    Here's my example:

    <br><br><img src="http://www.radmedia.org/gallerys/cigars/rad1964_nub_600x450.jpg"><br><br>

    image

    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:

    © = &copy;
    ® = &reg;
    ¢ = &cent;
    ½ = &frac12;
    é = &eacute;
    And the often abused         = &nbsp;
    (Yes, that spot is supposed to be blank)

    (I put 8 of the &nbsp; in order to get that space)
    (8 pixels worth)
    One &nbsp; equals 1 pixel of blank space
    (72 pixels = @ 1 inch)


    There are many other ones but the list is too long to name them all. Click here for the big list.

    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.


    Use this code here and substitute the "number_of_the_smiley_goes_here" with the number of the smilie you want to use.
    <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/number_of_the_smiley_goes_here.gif">

    Exp. pasting the following code into your post <img src="http://www.xhale.net/images/smilies/14.gif"> will result in this: image

    Smiley list A
    Smiley list B



    ==========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:
    image


    The resulting, embedded video should look like this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViyBHOx8fE

    * I have a new address as of 3/24/18 *

  • ddubridgeddubridge Posts: 3,978 ✭✭✭
    took me far to long to find this...bump :-)
  • pelirrojopelirrojo Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭
    Bumpin' for those new to the forum
  • MartelMartel Posts: 3,306 ✭✭✭✭
    Thanks!
    Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

    I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot.  I will smoke anything, though.
  • TridentTrident Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭✭
    Bump
  • ddubridgeddubridge Posts: 3,978 ✭✭✭
    Bumper-up
  • 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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