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Post by Sand on Jul 29, 2016 10:20:26 GMT -5
introduction - - As Erin Hunter Community's WCF closes, the majority of members have migrated here, to WCRF. Though there is something different about this place and that is the way things are coded. HTML is not the coding base you will use for layouts on this forum, rather it is BBC. Addressing the first question.. What exactly is BBC?
What is BBC?
- - Formally known as Bulletin Unit Board Code, BBC is lightweight markup language* that is used to format posts on a forum/message board. [ * Lightweight markup language - A language made up a simple syntax that is designed to be easy for a person, to enter with a simple text editor, and easy to read in its raw form. ]How is it different from HTML? - - Unlike HTML, BBC uses brackets [/] as tags instead of </> arrows. That's really all there is to it, as there's no difference in output. How do I code in BBC? - - That's the new step of the process! Though if you are copying & pasting things from WCF and transferring it to this forum, Brownie's thread located here.
directory - -
post #1 - - introduction & directory
post #2 - - learning: post box
post #3 - - learning: coding
post #4 - #7 - - empty, for saves |
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Post by Sand on Jul 29, 2016 10:20:49 GMT -5
learning: post box - - Step two of knowing how to use and code BBC; the learning process. We're going to go over the "post box" first since I really have no other idea what to call it. There are different ways to reply to a thread; Quick Reply & Reply. Simple coding like subs, bold, italics, etc. can be used in Quick Reply. To use coding, it's easier to use the "Reply" option. { I would include a screenshot but it's blurry, man }
features
- - The post box has VERY different features compared to WCF's, though it is done in a simpler style. It is easier to navigate and use. For example, you can now choose a font featured in the list, change font size without coding it yourself, and pick out colors by not having to use a set color scheme. Everything is more "out in the open" than being hidden in tabs after tabs. First two boxes you see are "Font Face" & "Font Size"; these can be used to style your post and change the size. 2nd row, are the following: Font Color, Bold, Italics, Underline, Strike Through, Superscript, Subscript, & Remove Formatting. 3rd row - Justify Left, Justify Center, Justify Right, Justify Full, Table, List, & Horizontal Rule. 4th row - Link, Email, Inser Image, Insert Video, Insert User Link, Insert Code, Insert Quote, Insert Smiley, & Insert Embed. - - As you can tell, there's many many options! Simply use them as you would use them on WCF, especially for bold/italics/underline/strike/sup&sub scripts. The linking section only needs to you (obviously) insert a link and it's done! Quick tip; the color wheel will save your color options in case you need to go back for a certain hex code! accessing BBCode - - I hope this is clear enough for you; in the left hand corner of your post box, there should be two tabs saying "Preview" & "BBCode". You want to code in the BBCode part NOT Preview. Once there, you can begin coding! If you'd like to see what it looks like, switch back over to Preview. |
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Post by Sand on Jul 29, 2016 10:21:01 GMT -5
learning: coding - - This is truly the main part of the thread unless you already know how to do this thanks to copying old code & switching brackets out for arrows.
features
- - The features of coding on WCRF with BBCode is a bit different from the old forums. Brownie has informed me scrollboxes do work here! Also,
basic tags - - Basic tags are ones such as p (paragraph), b (bold), i (italics), strike (strike), sub (subscript), sup (superscript), span (span). Simpler BBC such as the following basic tags work in Quick Reply: b (bold), i (italics), strike (strike), sub (subscript), sup (superscript), code (code). span (span). layout tags - - div (division), code (code) + all basics tags above. (IF I AM FORGETTING SOMETHING, PLEASE LET ME KNOW-- YET AGAIN)
layout boxes
- - As this site is wider in width than WCF, I recommend playing with the width of your div boxes. You don't have to, but it may look better as it doesn't take up all the space on the post and appear elongated + ugly. I also suggest using padding in your boxes so the words do not stick to the side. These are only recommendations, feel free to try them out!~ Also, the blue boxes you see inside of the grey one is made by the "C" near the smiley face button; if you need to show how a code works, use that instead of going through BBCode or it'll create a double box!
[div style="background-color:grey;padding:20px;width:60%;"]text~[/div]
[div style="background-color:grey;padding:20px;width:80%;"]text~[/div]
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Post by Sand on Jul 29, 2016 10:21:30 GMT -5
learning: coding part 2 - - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
scrollboxes & spoilers
- - Thanks to The Way of Kings & Brownie, scrollboxes are actually supported on this forum! The coding is obviously different, using "overflow". lorem ipsum etc.
[div style="background-color: #ffffff; width: 500px; height: 50px; overflow: auto; color: #000000;"]lorem ipsum etc.
[/div]
Again, The Way of Kings also informed me of something called "spoilers". It can condense information and/or hide spoilers from users who do not want to see them. You clicked on a spoiler! You MUST click if you'd like it to show the information. 3rd - - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
4th - - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
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Post by Sand on Jul 29, 2016 10:21:40 GMT -5
main header here - - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
2nd main heading
- - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
3rd - - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
4th - - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
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Post by Sand on Jul 29, 2016 10:21:51 GMT -5
main header here - - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
2nd main heading
- - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
3rd - - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
4th - - NOTHING HERE YET, BUDDIES! I GOT SOME DONE, I'M THINKING OF WHAT ELSE TO ADD, OKAY?
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Post by Sand on Jul 29, 2016 10:22:08 GMT -5
credit - - First, I'd like to thanK Tomorrow's Hero for creating this forum. As for contributors: Brownie , primrose --❀ & lividlink have been very helpful! I wouldn't know most of the secrets without them~ |
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 0:25:10 GMT -5
Just gonna bump this quickly for feedback, I guess ;o;???
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Post by ⋆ ɑetɧeɾ « on Jul 30, 2016 0:33:22 GMT -5
yay, coding help n.n
I already bookmarked this page lol but this is so useful and helpful [:
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 0:34:59 GMT -5
I'm hoping to add more in a few as I'm sifting through things I can remember.
Thank you! I'm going to add a link to Brownie's thread (I'll make the text size bigger), so people can find it if they haven't seen the sticky.
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Post by ⋆ ɑetɧeɾ « on Jul 30, 2016 0:41:23 GMT -5
Sweet n.n
and np!
and like, I totally blanked on how to even use bbc lol every since the old forums went to hoop.la and basic bbc -> html, just forgot as I learned html lol. and now its back to this, and tbh I'm glad its kinda simple to learn, and before I found Brownie's thread I was sad bc I thought I had to redo all my layouts fhvjvfb but its just a simple switch from </> to [/] so yeah n.n
but hey, soon this place will liven up and a ton of graphic/code shops and stuff will come around and everyone will learn to code and stuff o:
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 0:56:59 GMT -5
Ahh, same here o: BBCode is simply to learn, lucky and isn't as hard as HTML imo. I'm gonna miss some HTMl features though the two seem pretty similar based on what I've read. I'm just hoping it won't mess with most layouts-- width seems to be pretty important here.
I can't wait >w<!
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Post by ⋆ ɑetɧeɾ « on Jul 30, 2016 1:03:58 GMT -5
yeah seems that way n.n
and yeah width omg omg o.o but all I did was changed my like width to about 50%/45% depending on how it looked and it seemed like "normal" rather than huge omg. but yeah lol.
same [:
tho I'm gonna miss the old wcf page ): been there since I was like 13 (and I'm like almost 20 jfdhs) but like that's my childhood ugh and its just gonna be gone ono
but I'm glad this place is going well, and its better than nothing ~
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 1:06:16 GMT -5
it's weird, darn width is weird.
me too D': I've been there since I was 14, I think and I'm 18 so it's like my teenage years are doing down a drain.
I like this place as well && I'd be glad to stay here than go anywhere else where I don't know anyone.
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Post by ⋆ ɑetɧeɾ « on Jul 30, 2016 1:15:06 GMT -5
yeah it is lol
Yeah :c and tho probably past couple years I was bitter with wcf like idk I just like, not avoided it, but my rp pals drifted bc school/college/etc (tho they pop in once in a while and we still chat on another place like wattpad), but like, idk, I tried not to get on sometimes bc drama or whatever. Esp with the recent layout update omg just bogged my computer to suuuuuuuuuuuper slow omg and like I hated it and bleh. but like, now I just cant stand the idea it'll be /deleted/ /forever/ yk? ono
its just so sad D:
but yeah agreed. and tho I think theres another forum someone made where some people went to (its a hoopla site someone made) but yeah seems like the majority is here. And it seems to be running smoothly n.n and I like how everyone is here and stuff, I found my friends (bc I spammed them with this link lol oops) but yeah ! and like, its better than nothing, and better than somewhere I don't know anyone bc I'm shy lol.
so yeah c:
and I think, after the initial shock of wcf going down and we just kinda say goodbye to it, we can rebuild the community here.
and if there is some way to get this places' word out to warriorcats.com where itll be seen to the new kids who go there and stuff and new fans to the books, thatd be cool. Even tho its not "the official wcf/erin hunter community", this is where we all are, or the most of us that is~
also I just hope no trolls and weirdos get on and ruin this place like pls no >-<'
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 2:44:56 GMT -5
> most poofiest person on the planet right here
ahh, I understand; there seemed to be more things happening in the recent years than in the past; kinda drama related 'n' what not. I know T-T', ahh, I can't imagine seeing all that hard work end up somewhere out in cyberspace, the entire thing seems surreal.
is it the OTRP hoop.la site? A friend gave it to me & I haven't signed up yet but I'm pretty sure the OTRP ppl are there for the most part. I spammed mine with the link and screenshots of the email they sent out and it was early in the morning, I don't know how I was functioning at 9 am lol'. Being shy's okay; I'm sometimes that way especially if I want my peace && quiet.
ccc:
it'd be so cool to have the majority of the community here!~ it'd be like old times, kinda, but reborn if that makes sense.
I kinda felt bad for some kid who joined wcf/erin hunter community like 2 days ago and now it's shutting down, like what luck is that?
same ;A;' freakin' trolls better not ruin this for us.
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Post by ⋆ ɑetɧeɾ « on Jul 30, 2016 2:56:15 GMT -5
lol its ok haha, I'm poofy too, working on rp layouts and such *-*'
yeah ahh.
and yeah poor newbies ono I was looking at the shutdown notice and there was a couple kids who just signed up like five minutes before the notice like dang /:
;-;
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 3:11:35 GMT -5
it's okay o: i've been saving all my things from wcf to documents for the past few hours
decided to take a break because i'm pretty much half way through.
right? ;-; if that was me, i'd probably blow a fuse.
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Post by ⋆ ɑetɧeɾ « on Jul 30, 2016 3:16:11 GMT -5
yeah haha. I'm just working on putting everything together on here lol. And finishing up this Clan layout that I waaasss going to do today but nooooooooo the forums has to close and stuff. yeesh lol.
Yeah ono
so whats up lol.
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 3:19:04 GMT -5
I'm too lazy to put everything on a thread here rn uuugh. Ooooh, clanssssss, I haven't rp'd in weeks because laziness and muse is a little snitch. lol
sleepy and playing a game when I should probably be going to bed. you?
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Post by ⋆ ɑetɧeɾ « on Jul 30, 2016 3:31:40 GMT -5
yeah its been like yEARS since ive rped clans and like a few of my friends were wanting to make a group clan thing with 4 original clans in the Forest but like, without the books or anything if that makes sense. like nothing in the books happened, and yeah. So yeah I'm just throwing this thing together when I should be asleep bc its like 4:30am lol
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 3:34:33 GMT -5
oohhhh, that sounds cool o: i might join just to get my muse going ~
4:30 am is so late it's only 2:30 am over here omg
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Post by ⋆ ɑetɧeɾ « on Jul 30, 2016 3:40:09 GMT -5
ooh yay n.n haha awesome
yeah ;.; so I'm gonna go ahead and hop off here and sleep z.z
night n.n
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 3:45:06 GMT -5
night! sleep well.
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Post by Brownie on Jul 30, 2016 11:58:54 GMT -5
Couple of notes because I've been experimenting around:
I believe scrollboxes are supported, just with a different code than HTML. Haven't had a chance to check yet.
You could make a note that [sub]jfkdslaf[/sub] is back
another quick code is [code]insert code**And then [/code] but IT TAKES THE FIRST ONE YA SILLY CODE
And maybe make a note that you can BBCode simple BBC in the quick reply. I did all this in quick reply and I think it'll work. I hope so lol
Yeah, simple codes work in quick reply, such as subs, colors, and the italic/bold ect.
Maybe add span to the grouping codes?
Anyways, awesome guide, love the colors.
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 16:05:35 GMT -5
thank you, brownie! That's so helpful cx I'll be sure to add it tonight ^^
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 20:26:15 GMT -5
bumping quickly ~
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Post by lividlink on Jul 30, 2016 20:38:19 GMT -5
This is super helpful! I'm already pretty knowledgeable in BBCode due to it being used on another forum I'm on, but this will hopefully be very helpful to members new to it!
As a note though, another easier way to strike-out text is just with
[s]Text.[/s]
It's not super important, but it saves writing a few extra letters!
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Post by Sand on Jul 30, 2016 21:00:12 GMT -5
thank you so much for the tip!
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Aromantic
primrose --❀
not active here but pls feel free to @/pm me on tumblr
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Post by primrose --❀ on Jul 30, 2016 22:08:49 GMT -5
Couple of notes because I've been experimenting around: I believe scrollboxes are supported, just with a different code than HTML. Haven't had a chance to check yet. i went ahead and checked just now, and scroll boxes actually do work with the same code! here's a test of it: lorem ipsum etc.
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.[/div](for anyone just going through and wondering which thing it is, it's the overflow property ^^ ) edit: forgot to mention! there's also a really helpful element that can "hide" anything you put in between the two tags (i've been using it for my wcf memories page since i have a lot of layouts/text there haha), like so: lorem ipsum etc. [spoiler]lorem ipsum etc.[/spoiler] |
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