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Reading Posts - Pages

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Adding HTML Spice to Your Comments

You can change font styles in your comments to emphasize words or to signify a quote you wish to refer to or comment on something previously written. Here is a guide to some basics, you will see these symbols < and > they will be shown with a space between them and the letters, i.e. < space > to make them work all you need do is not have any spaces - feel free to experiment !

To Make Text Bold

< b >Make Me Bold< / b > with no spaces will give you Make Me Bold

To Make Text Italic

< i >Make Me Italic< / i > with no spaces will give you Make Me Italic

Add a Blockquote

< blockquote >Add a Blockquote< / blockquote >

Add a Blockquote

Smilies or Emoticons

These are things that should enrage me ! But, they are, in fact, rather useful.
The written word in comment form can easily be misunderstood without hearing the inflection of voice.
Here are some basics once again leave out spaces to make them work
: ) with no space between the 2 symbols will give you - Happy
: ( will give you - Sad
; ) will give you - Wink
: lol : will give you
: cry : will give you - Crying
: oops : will give you - embarrassed
: roll : will give you - Roll Eyes
: twisted : will give you - Evil
: cool : will give you - Cool
: idea : will give you - the lightbulb or good idea

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Rod Collins