How to embed images, bold text, and other cool stuff.

by Joe , Thursday, February 12, 2009, 19:40 (6257 days ago)
edited by Joe, Sunday, February 22, 2009, 20:30

Just as an FYI for those of you who would like to use formatting in your posts. This forum uses BBcode, which is a little bit different from standard HTML (and can and will be more powerful when it gets going).

For bold and italic, they're pretty much like you'd expect, only instead of < you will use [. As follows:

[b]This will be bold[/b]
[i]This will be italics.[/i]

If you'd like to insert a link, it is as follows:

[link]http://www.google.com[/link]

To embed an image:

[img]http://www.google.com/yourimage.jpg[/img]

For embedding a youtube video:

[youtube]Z4-w5Ibfut4[/youtube]

Note that the piece in between the

[youtube][/youtube]

tags is the tail end of the YouTube URL - after the part that says v=.

For those of you who use FireFox, there is a BBcode extension that may help:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/128

This will eventually make its way to a permanent page, but this will do for now. Enjoy.