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Old 06-09-2008
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Alright. Now that you've got a pretty good idea what each forum is for; you shouldn't have a problem posting in the appropriate forum. If you still have further questions about where to post, feel free to ask anyway. Not that big a deal. Just use your best sense to post, and we'll all be happy.

Posting A Message(font and codes)

Now you have the mindset to post, and the knowledge of where to post. And by-golly you have the will to. So now what?
Do you plan on posting with that simple text? Why not jazz it up?

It's time you learned about simple Vbcode.(which varies slightly from BBcode)

Now, again, I'm no guru. So don't bite my head off if I get this wrong(Once more, a figure of speech. Unless you have the mandable of a crocodile. Which I highly doubt).

(Note: all tags here were displayed using the [noparse]noparse[/noparse] tags)

The many and vast uses these text augments have are too many for me to even point in their general direction. But what I will do is give you a basic break-down of what they are and what tags to use to get them.


this text is bold
this text is italic
this text is underlined
this text is highlighted
this text is blue



[b]this text is bold[/b]
[i]this text is italic[/i]
[u]this text is underlined[/u]
[highlight]this text is highlighted[/highlight]
[color=blue]this text is blue[/color]


All of the above can be found used in just about every thread in this forum. They're the most basic fonts you can use. And when used correctly the reader can easily tell what 'tone' you are using.

There are also many different types of font you can use in your plays to help give them that extra feel

I particularly like the 'Comic Sans MS' text. If I wanted to use this in my post I would use the [font=comic sans ms]this text is comic sans ms[/font] tag.

Without the 'noparse' tag around the code, my text looks as it does now.

If I wanted my text to have a cartoony feel all the time I'd have the font tag set to Comic Sans MS all the time. Though do you really think people would take me seriously if I had my text like this all the time?
Or how about something like this?
Or This?

Or how about if I just kept my text like this all of the time. Every post I made?

It would be ridiculous. Text is not suppose to make you squint when you look at it. Nor should it force you to turn the brightness on your monitor down. Text should be readable and balanced in contrast to the color of the background it sets on. The white text on the nice brown(-ish grey?) of the background of the guild is a perfectly contrasted balance.(in my honest opinion)

Only when you are trying to give your character's words a bit of emphasis to strengthen their character development should you do any drastic changes to the basic text.
(An exception would be to change the color of two individual characters controlled by one person. The first character could have blue speech-text while the latter would have red. Perfectly reasonable, play-wise.)

Last edited by 76. : 10-12-2008 at 03:59 PM.
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