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Starwinderbeta
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02/10/2003 10:22 PM (UTC)
To reduce the amount of threads that ask how to display an image in a post, or how to change one's font color, and et cetera, I've made this thread, which will fufill the purpose of informing the new members the basics of basic HTML Coding.

Question 1: How do I post an image?

First, find the image or link to the image you like. Right-Click it and click "Properties", located at the bottom of the sub-menu. Look for the words "Address (URL)". The text beside it is the URL of the picture (Example: http://mortalkombatonline.com/lv6/themes/Frost/emoticons/smile.gif). Highlight the whole URL, right click it, and click "Copy".

Return to the thread in which you wish to post the image in (If you want to post it in your sig space, go to the Settings page). Type this in the desired text space:

<
img src="">

Right-Click in between the quotation marks, and click "Paste". Upon doing so, the image should appear.

Question 2: The picture is in my Hard Drive. What do I do?

Visit a free site host, such as Sharemation. I'll use Sharemation as an example, as that's what I use to host my pictures. Follow the link posted above to go to Sharemation. Then click "New users register here". Register, and go check your e-mail address for confirmation and activation of your account. After activating your account, sign in at Sharemation. The FIRST thing you should do (Very important), is to click that image of a hand holding a piece of paper with a globe on it. It's right at the top of the screen, beside the words "Directory: /".

Click "Change" at the bottom of the page, and look under the "Read" column. Turn "Users with accounts" off by selecting "No", and turn "Public" on by selecting "Yes". This will allow everybody to see your pictures, and more importantly, without the Sharemation prompt (It asks for a username and password) popping up everywhere your picture is posted. After this, select "Apply changed settings to sub-directories and files", and click "Apply Now".

The screen should load back to your main directory. Now, click "Upload" at the very top of the screen. After the page loads, click "Browse". Find the picture, and double-click it. Click "OK". The file will upload, and your main directory screen will appear, with your image in it. Now your image is on an online host. Go back to Question 1 and follow the instructions from there. Be careful of what you use as icons and sigs, you don't want to have questionable material that breaks the rules in the MKOnline Kommunity FAQ.

Question 3: How do I create a link?

Simple. Type this:

<a href="">

Put in the URL of the item you wish to link to in between the quotation marks. After the ">" symbol, type in what word you want to be used as a medium that links this page and the item you wish to link to. For example:

<a href="http://www.mortalkombatonline.com/content/kom/faq.cds"> This is where you type the medium in. The medium could also be an image.

After typing in the medium, type this:

</a>

After doing all the steps, it should look like this:

<a href="http://www.mortalkombatonline.com/content/kom/faq.cds">This is where you type the medium in. The medium could also be an image./a>

This is how the link will look like to everyone else after you post it:

This is where you type the medium in. The medium could also be an image.

Simple.
Note: Remember that linking to other sites is forbidden in MKOnline, so contain links to sites in your signatures.

Any other questions should be asked and contained in this thread, so as not to pollute the forums with repeated questions addressing these things. As more questions are asked, I will do my best to answer them as soon as possible.


Evas...The MKOnline Anime Authority...
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Murdoink
03/23/2004 02:33 AM (UTC)
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Hand some dragons for this poor man, please. XD

Good job, beta, I was going to write this but bleh. :P
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DRFATALITY
03/23/2004 02:38 AM (UTC)
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Thanks,im not new but this can help me out with my sigs.
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Blade-Tsung
03/23/2004 02:39 AM (UTC)
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Good show Starwind, but how does one make text size bigger??
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Starwinderbeta
03/23/2004 02:43 AM (UTC)
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To increase font size is simple.

Type this:

<font size="">

In between the quotation marks, type a number. That will be the font size. Be sure not to make it too big, though.

While we're on the subject of fonts, I'll explain how to change the actual font and the font color.

To change the font, type this:

<font face="">

In between the quotation marks, type the name of the font you wish to have. Make sure it's a legible font, though, so as not to arouse confusion among readers.

To change font color, type this:

<font color="">

Type the name of the color you wish in between the quotation marks.

All this is good and stuff, but remember one very important thing: At the end of your post, be sure to type this:

</font>

Or else you'll mess up the layout of the thread, which is a major no-no. wink
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Born-Again-Vampire
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03/23/2004 02:44 AM (UTC)
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Good job. This is long over due.
Things I would add are about how to center text, change font type, font color, etc. Also basic editing of pictures.

Some thing like if you want to change you text color use < font color="BLUE" >Blah blah< /font >

If you want to center text place it between < center >Your text < /center >

More text < font face="Arial" size="11" color="RED" >More text< /font >

I have been working on a photoshop tutorial as well.
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Murdoink
03/23/2004 02:52 AM (UTC)
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Ok, I typed a little something (using the MKW layout, I know, I'm lazy) but I think it helps to this, too.
http://mkw.mortalkombatonline.com/help/

I might add some other stuff, but now I have to go to bed. :P
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Born-Again-Vampire
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03/23/2004 03:02 AM (UTC)
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Hey thats real nice.
Murdoink Wrote:
Ok, I typed a little something (using the MKW layout, I know, I'm lazy) but I think it helps to this, too.
http://mkw.mortalkombatonline.com/help/

I might add some other stuff, but now I have to go to bed. :P

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Starwinderbeta
03/23/2004 03:50 AM (UTC)
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Question 5: How do I get Icons? (Taken from THIS thread)

Quoted from the link:
"Look at the MKOnline Avatar Library".


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Born-Again-Vampire
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Anything war can do, peace can do better.
03/23/2004 06:15 AM (UTC)
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You can also use URLs for this.
starwinderbeta Wrote:
Question 5: How do I get Icons? (Taken from THIS thread)

Quoted from the link:
"Look at the MKOnline Avatar Library".


Evas...The MKOnline Anime Authority...

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NextGenMK
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03/23/2004 10:31 AM (UTC)
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woah! oh yeah! tnx, this thread is appreciated by this new member.
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Starwinderbeta
03/23/2004 08:30 PM (UTC)
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Like born-again-vampire stated, you can also use a picture of your liking as a sig, so long as the picture doesn't contain questionable material. To do this, first copy the URL of your image (Addressed in Question 1), then go to your Settings page. In the first text box, you'll see the MK Dragon Logo to the left, and the words "Change" and "Library". Click "Change", and paste the URL into the text box.
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Blade-Tsung
03/23/2004 09:46 PM (UTC)
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Thanks man, I've been wondering that for a while now. heh
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Born-Again-Vampire
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03/23/2004 10:07 PM (UTC)
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Blade...what a newbie

jk.
blade-tsung Wrote:
Thanks man, I've been wondering that for a while now. heh

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03/23/2004 11:03 PM (UTC)
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yeah, ive wanted to know this stuff too. This should be stuck at the top of the page for everyone to see.
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Starwinderbeta
03/24/2004 11:46 AM (UTC)
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Question 6: How do I make those smilie faces?

Some users probably never notice the list of usable emoticons (smilies) at the bottom of the Post Message page, as one usually has to scroll down to view them.

At most websites, there are shortcuts to doing these emoticons, doable via typing some keys on your keyboard in the right order. Here are the Emoticons MKOnline.com has (By the way, you can choose whether you want your emoticons to be regular looking, or MK themed):

Happy: :-) (smile)
Sad: :-( (sad)
Wink: ;-) (wink)
Grin: :-D (grin)
Confused: :-S (confused)
Surprised: =-O (wow)
Furious: >:o(furious)
Tongue: :-P (tongue)
Sleep: z:o (z:o)
Cool Guy: B-) (glasses)

Edit: It's only the sleep emoticon that does not work. Maybe because it uses a letter of the alphabet?
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Blade-Tsung
03/24/2004 01:11 PM (UTC)
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starwinderbeta Wrote:
Question 6: How do I make those smilie faces?
Sleep: z:o (z:o)
Edit: It's only the sleep emoticon that does not work. Maybe because it uses a letter of the alphabet?



mwahahahahahahah

Seriously tho, the best way to do this is by just putting this in:

&ltimg; src="http://mortalkombatonline.com/lv6/themes/Frost/emoticons/mk-sleep.gif">
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Starwinderbeta
03/24/2004 10:08 PM (UTC)
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Question 7: When I preview my avatars and signatures, they are viewable, but when I post, I don't see them. What's wrong?
(Taken from this page.

It's most likely that you're Shadowed by a Moderator, usually because you probably have questionable material in your avatar and sig, or your avatar and/or sig contains images of Mortal Kombat: Deception exclusive to magazines such as PSM, EGM, GamePro, etc.

As some of you know, showing of magazine-exclusive material on the site can lead to a lawsuit filed against the Administrators of MKOnline. Then there will probably be no more MKOnline. Do you want that? Do you!? sad
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elbarto
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03/25/2004 04:06 AM (UTC)
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I have a few questions:

1. for some reason that I hope u can answer, when I submit my signature it comes up like normal, for the time being, but when I sign off of the internet and come back on the next day, its gone with an X in its place. Its the same address but theres no picture.

2. I would like to put in an avatar I made but the address is to long. How can I shorten it?

Thank You.
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Blade-Tsung
03/25/2004 04:15 AM (UTC)
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elbarto Wrote:
I have a few questions:

1. for some reason that I hope u can answer, when I submit my signature it comes up like normal, for the time being, but when I sign off of the internet and come back on the next day, its gone with an X in its place. Its the same address but theres no picture.

2. I would like to put in an avatar I made but the address is to long. How can I shorten it?

Thank You.


Are you hosting your own picture? It could be due to wherever you get the pic from, after a certain amount of time they cancel you from linking to the pic. Hosting your own will eliminate this problem. As for your other question, I can't help ya, gotta wait for SWB.

My question is this, ok I no know how to make text bigger, but how do you get it back to the 'original' size? As you can see above, it made the text in my sig the same size as the text in my post..
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elbarto
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Seems easy, but nothing could be so hard.
Trying to guess life's dealing, what's the next card?
I'm surely folding, I don't like this hand at all.
03/25/2004 04:27 AM (UTC)
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How could I host my own pic?
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Hyuga
03/25/2004 04:28 AM (UTC)
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Nevermind.
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Starwinderbeta
03/25/2004 08:34 PM (UTC)
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After you've typed the text in the font size you wish to type in, the best thing you could do is type </font>.

This is best if you've only changed one aspect of the font. If you have two or three aspects of the original font changed, and you only want to change the font size to normal, type <font size=2>. Note that this only applies to this site, as its default font size in HTML is 2. The default font face is Arial, and the default font color is White. Keep these in mind, in case you want to change one aspect out of two or three back to normal. If you want to change all the aspects to normal, then just type </font>, as stated earlier...

</font> is basically a piece of code that reverts any text typed after it to the sites' default font...
blade-tsung Wrote:

Are you hosting your own picture? It could be due to wherever you get the pic from, after a certain amount of time they cancel you from linking to the pic. Hosting your own will eliminate this problem. As for your other question, I can't help ya, gotta wait for SWB.

My question is this, ok I no know how to make text bigger, but how do you get it back to the 'original' size? As you can see above, it made the text in my sig the same size as the text in my post..

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Starwinderbeta
03/25/2004 08:40 PM (UTC)
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Go read Question 1 and 2. If they don't help you, PM me.

As for your first question, your host might not be a good host, or it's something your browser is doing. Try right-clicking the picture, and click "Show Picture", or "View Picture". That works sometimes, but if it doesn't work, wait for a few hours, and try it again. Your host's bandwidth might have exceeded its limits.

If the above does not work, PM me, and explain in detail what the problem is.
elbarto Wrote:
How could I host my own pic?

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BroomSword
03/25/2004 08:42 PM (UTC)
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Yay.
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