First of all, you'll notice that there's a little toolbar right above where you compose your message.

Now you can easily make words bold - just highlight what you want bold (or italic, or strikeout) and whoosh your text is updated.

There's a few other text formatting items up there.

Here's a handy review, starting at the left.
Globe thing with 2 chain links - Make a linkto a web site. Click this, enter the address of the site, then the text you want linked.
Envelope - Link selected text to an email address. Works the same as the Globe thing, but for email addresses.

Icon with triangle and circle. Insert an image from another web site. How to do this:
  • Find an image you want to show here somewhere on the internet.
  • Right Click on it and "View Image", then copy the web address of the image, or right-click on the image and then "Copy Image Location"
  • Back here at the forum, click on the image icon, and paste the address

Helps you make a list with bullet points (like the list just above)

Bold, Italic, Underline & Strikeout are pretty self explanatory.
is the symbol to quote some text. Click on it and you'll see two tags -
Code:
[quote] and [/quote]
. Put your quote text in between those two tags and it will

Quote:
look like this


lets you show code in a post (I used that tag to demonstrate the quote tag above).

Geek Warning. This function is for PHP tag wrapping. If that's gibberish to you, ignore it.


Add one of several smileys to the post.

Change the color of your selected text.

Now you can change the font of your ] text. Handy for online ransom notes.
[img]http://forums.equipped.org/images/markup_panel/default/fontsize.gif[/img] And if you feel the need to make your text big bigger and biggest or small and smaller, this is what you use.

There's a little pair of arrows:
[img]http://forums.equipped.org/images/markup_panel/default/smaller.gif[/img] [img]http://forums.equipped.org/images/markup_panel/default/bigger.gif[/img]

They make the area where you type your message smaller & bigger respectively.

Finally, there's POLL MANGER and FILE MANAGER added to the bottom of the message composer. You can create a poll with Poll manager and upload an image file with File Manager and these will be attached to your post.

Hope that helps!


Marty