Jane's UBBC hints and tips

[Jane]

In this thread I'll try and give a simple how to on the UBBC (Universal Bullitin Board Code-The language this board uses) tags that work on here as a guide for new posters to be able to use the boards power fully.

Again I do take requests
xxxJ

[Jane]

Bold Text
[b]TEXT[/b]
[b]Beware the hoover of Doom![/b]
Beware the hoover of Doom!

Italic Text

[i]TEXT[/i]
[i]Put him down:you don' know where he's been[/i]
Put him down:you don' know where he's been

Underlines

I [u]need[/u] a bowl of [u]steaming hot [/u] soup
I need a bowl of steaming hot soup

Strike through

[s]TEXT[/s] [s]I love crossing out i do[/s]
I love crossing out i do

[Jane]

Outer Glow

[glow=red,2,300]TEXT[/glow]
[glow=(Colour of glow),(Glow width),(intensity)]TEXT[/glow]
[glow=Orange,2,300]This only shows up in internet explore curse you gates and your cloven footed minnions![/glow]
[glow=Orange,2,300]This only shows up in internet explore (curse you gates and your cloven footed minnions![/glow]

Drop Shadow
[shadow=red,left,300]TEXT[/shadow]
[shadow=(colour,Direction,intensity)]TEXT[/shadow]
[shadow=Pink,right,700]Bill Gates should be taken away and be a Eunuch in the palace of the King of Babylon....[/shadow]
[shadow=Pink,right,700]Bill Gates should be taken away and be a Eunuch in the palace of the King of Babylon....[/shadow]

Scrolling Marque

[move]TEXT[/move]
[move]TEXT[/move]
[move][u][i][b]Does exactly what it says on the tin[/b][/i][/u][/move]
Does exactly what it says on the tin

[erica]

Can you please tell me what these ones are for:

[Jane]

When I work out what they do I will

[Jane]

They seem to be for formating posts so if you want text next to a picture you can use the though i'm a bit stumped to be honest to their usefulness.


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   [td][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/MeJane/boogie.gif[/img][/td]
   [td][color=Orange][size=7]Wind him up and watch him go[/size][/color][/td]
 [/tr]
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Wind him up and watch him go

[Jane]

Beware the evil of these tags they seem to be a little too much for the board to think about. I shall consult the Oracles and get back to you.

[Jane]

does very little as far as I know. (I'll check it in a few browsers to make sure but i don't think so)

[pre]TEXT[/pre]
[pre]March 28th San Diego, CA - Sports Arena
April 1st Anaheim, CA - Arrowhead Pond
April 5th Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
April 9th San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
April 14th Phoenix, AZ - Glendale Arena
April 20th Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
April 24th Seattle, WA - Key Arena
April 28th Vancouver, BC - General Motors Place
May 7th & May 9th Chicago, IL - United Center
May 14 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center
May 17 & May 18 East Rutherford, NJ - Continental Airlines Arena
May 21 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
May 24 & May 26 Boston, MA - Fleet Center[/pre]


March 28th San Diego, CA - Sports Arena
April 1st Anaheim, CA - Arrowhead Pond
April 5th Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
April 9th San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
April 14th Phoenix, AZ - Glendale Arena
April 20th Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
April 24th Seattle, WA - Key Arena
April 28th Vancouver, BC - General Motors Place
May 7th & May 9th Chicago, IL - United Center
May 14 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center
May 17 & May 18 East Rutherford, NJ - Continental Airlines Arena
May 21 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
May 24 & May 26 Boston, MA - Fleet Center

Its displaying text in courier for me which is my *goes to check* Monospace default font. IE seems to default to courier to, so its a one touch way to make most people see courier?

[Jane]

The rest are thankfully more straight forward.


Align text left

March 28th San Diego, CA - Sports Arena
April 1st Anaheim, CA - Arrowhead Pond
April 5th Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
April 9th San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
April 14th Phoenix, AZ - Glendale Arena
April 20th Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
April 24th Seattle, WA - Key Arena
April 28th Vancouver, BC - General Motors Place
May 7th & May 9th Chicago, IL - United Center
May 14 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center
May 17 & May 18 East Rutherford, NJ - Continental Airlines Arena
May 21 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
May 24 & May 26 Boston, MA - Fleet Center

March 28th San Diego, CA - Sports Arena
April 1st Anaheim, CA - Arrowhead Pond
April 5th Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
April 9th San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
April 14th Phoenix, AZ - Glendale Arena
April 20th Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
April 24th Seattle, WA - Key Arena
April 28th Vancouver, BC - General Motors Place
May 7th & May 9th Chicago, IL - United Center
May 14 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center
May 17 & May 18 East Rutherford, NJ - Continental Airlines Arena
May 21 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
May 24 & May 26 Boston, MA - Fleet Center

March 28th San Diego, CA - Sports Arena
April 1st Anaheim, CA - Arrowhead Pond
April 5th Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
April 9th San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
April 14th Phoenix, AZ - Glendale Arena
April 20th Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
April 24th Seattle, WA - Key Arena
April 28th Vancouver, BC - General Motors Place
May 7th & May 9th Chicago, IL - United Center
May 14 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center
May 17 & May 18 East Rutherford, NJ - Continental Airlines Arena
May 21 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
May 24 & May 26 Boston, MA - Fleet Center

[Jane]

They work with pictures too.

[Jane]

seems to draw a random line

[hr]

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who knows why? I Don't (isn't working in IE but may just be my system)

Text size

[size=1]TEXT[/size][size=2]TEXT[/size][size=3]TEXT[/size][size=4]TEXT[/size][size=5]TEXT[/size][size=6]TEXT[/size][size=7]TEXT[/size]
TEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXTTEXT

[erica]

Thanks Jane!

Ms said:

seems to draw a random line

[hr]

---

who knows why? I Don't

Some people use that one on a forum that I post in... They use that when they write something off topic

[Jane]

Should change the font of text but it works when it wants to and does not seem stable especially across browsers. N.B People can only see the font you specify if they have it installed on their system (fonts don't fully work in Netscape)


[font=Verdana]TEXT[/font]
[font=Times New Roman]TEXT[/font]
[font=Arial]TEXT[/font]
[font=Webdings]TEXT[/font]
[font=Lucida Calligraphy]TEXT[/font]
[font=Garamond]TEXT[/font]
[font=Comic Sans MS]TEXT[/font]


TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT
TEXT

[Jane]

erica said:

Thanks Jane!



Some people use that one on a forum that I post in... They use that when they write something off topic

That would make sense it just seemed a bit random.

[Jane]

No idea at the moment

Adds a clickable link, largely un-necessary. I think it fills in the gaps to a certain extent I'll just try it.

[url][/url]
[url]http://www.happyalone.com[/url]
[url]www.happyalone.com[/url]
[url]happyalone.com[/url]

www.happyalone.com
www.happyalone.com
happyalone.com

it you type the full adress it will always be clickable without any tags.

is something to do with file shareing protocols whatever they are....
Insert picture

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/MeJane/nathan3.jpg[/img]


"Inserts Email"

Really don't do it.... It only works for people who use brower bassed e-mails and really short of Buisness I don't know many people who do. Except people on AOL

Super script (useful for mathmatical types and Trade marks)

55cm[sup]2[/sup] The K.S.F[sup]TM[/sup]
55cm² The K.S.F^TM

Subscript (popular with chemists.
Hydrogen Peroxide H[sub]2[/sub]O[sub]2[/sub]
Hydrogen Peroxide H₂O₂

[Jane]

Teletype apparently [tt](I don't know)[/tt]
(I don't know) it looks like another way to post in Courier for no good reason.....

This thread is brought to you by the Code Button.

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Quote box


[quote]Anyone can play the spoons[/quote]

Anyone can play the spoons

Buletted list

[ul][li]Legwarmers[/li][li]Fame Soundtrack[/li][li]Car to Dance on[/li][/ul]

• Legwarmers
• Fame Soundtrack
• Car to Dance on

[Jane]

Theres a list of Colours that deffinately work on the pull down menu.
[color=Pink]Pink[/color]
Pink


Black
Red
Yellow
Pink
Green
Orange
Purple
Blue
Beige
Brown
Teal
Navy
Maroon
Lime Green

[Jane]

Theoretically they should all work with Dark or light in front of them, but oh no its never that easy

Grey
Gray
Dark Yellow
Red
DarkRed
DarkPink
DarkGreen
DarkOrange
DarkPurple
DarkBlue
DarkBeige
DarkBrown
DarkTeal
DarkNavy
DarkMaroon
DarkLime Green

[Jane]

A Color bit I stole from another place:

As text color: silver, tan, magenta, cyan, lime, green, purple, gray, gold, aqua, chartreuse

You can also use "dark" and "light" in front of colors, such as lightblue and darkblue.

Finally, you can use hexadecimal color numbers, if you know them. You should use a 3-byte number, with the first byte representing red, the second blue, and the third byte green. So for example, the color "FF0000" would be fully saturated red, like this: FF0000, and CC00CC should be a nice purple: CC00CC.

You can use any 3-byte hex number you want, though so-called "web-safe" colors will be comprised of byte values 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, and FF only. If you do the math, you will see that this results in 216 possible color values, from 000000 (black) to FFFFFF (white).

[Jane]

Browsers.......

To look at the wonder we call tinternet you need somsort of browser program. There are many of these but not one of them is absolutely ideal.

Most of the world uses Microsofts Internet Explorer-IE (as this comes "free" with windows Microsofts attempt andt striveing for a monopoly)

The Logo looks like this

IE isn't all bad, its just I hate it.

Pros

• Its well supported and universal
• Some microsoft only codeings don't work with it
• it supports a few extra UBBC functions
• It opens quickly

Cons

• There is no pop-up blocker option as MS has a share in the ad companies
• It is not secure being a target for ad ware spyware and virus writers, who exploit holes in the codeing
• Its linked directly to windows so any problem with IE will spread to Windows.

Internet Explorer 's home page is www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
with details of how you can update to the latest version etc.

The Next Browser of Note thats quickly gaining popularity is Mozzila's Firefox, which I'd heartily recomend.

Pro's look here
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

cons

There are some problems with Microsofts agressive marketing codeing and sights owned by microsoft.

AOL

If you are an AOL victim I feel for you, even though i've never experienced AOL's browser from reports I've read it is pure evil, if you're using AOL as you're ISP you're probably using the AOL browser.

Netscape Navigator.

The original Browser, a shadow of itself due to Microsoft enforceing a monopoly. However its still better than IE, it is bassed on an older version of Mozzila Phoenix I think, it has a few bugs but it works for most things.

Check it out at home.netscape.com/

The only other Browser of Note is Opera, Opera is weird, its intresting as a second or third browser i'd recomend it if you like to play around with new things. Its one of the few browsers that expect you to want to pay for it, however you can download a freeversion that has a thin strip of google ads on it (but they're easy to ignore) www.opera.com/


Ps Of largely accademic intrest only, it is possible to browse the using many other programmes you wouldn't think about includeing things like realplayer, quicktime etc etc, but most of them use internet explorer as their base code.