That development has thus far been met with a furious wave of one thumbs down. With apologies that we now have to make one click to open a response window, please understand that this change comes not without thought.
Firstly, come on, if you have to think one more second before posting a response, isn't that good for everybody? Let's be intentional here!
Secondly, and more importantly, too many of us just aren't familiar with the robust editorial toolbar that appears above a window when you (a) post a new topic, or (b) click that Post Reply button. The toolbar doesn't appear in the Kwik Respond window, and that's where we have done most of our post submitting.
So, yeah, all posts now have the editorial toolbar. Know it. Use it. Think about it at night when you sleep.
These tools have the power to make your boring, meandering posts into highly formatted boring, meandering posts.
HA! I kid. But they do aid with clarity, and clarity serves both the reader and the writer. Writing with concern for clarity is just the right way to be, and it helps make this forum the survivor that it is.
I'm not going to walk you through every button and dropdown menu right now, but maybe later, we'll have ongoing tutelage.
FUN FACT: One or two of the buttons don't work so great.
How Do I Post Bold and Italic Text?
Look at the first two buttons. They are all you need!
Click that B button for boldface type, and the following smidgen of code appears:
Put the text you want bolded in between the bracketed B and the bracketed backslash-B, thusly:
... and holy shit! You just bolded your text.
... that Post Reply button ... .
That's so easy that many of you who bothered reading this far (any of you?) wondered why you wasted your time.
Italicizing obviously works the same way. Click that I button and you'll get
Put your text-to-be-italicized in the middle like
And you can add emphasis where appropriate.
I graduated summa cum laude, motherfucker!
Yeah, but I Want to Post Photos
If you're like most folks you want to post photos. Or more likely, you want to see metsirish's photos. Fair fucks to you.
Every image on the Internet has a URL. The best way to grab it is to, in another tab, find your photo and right-click over it. Unless it's some specially secured photo, you should get a menu that includes the selection Copy Image Link. This might be somewhat differently phrased depending on your machine. On mine, it lookies like this:
That will copy a URL to your clipboard. A URL is an address on the internet. For most images, a URL will end in ".jpg"; ".png"; or ".gif". For the bunny shot above, the URL I copied to the clipboard looks like:
On the editorial toolbar the ... one, two, three ... ninth(!) button from the left looks like a landscape picture:
If you click that button, you get this itty bitty bit of code:
The "img" is, quite obviously, an abbreviation for "image."
Take that URL on your clipboard and place it in between the two bracketed parts (which are the opening tag and the closing tag) and ...
becomes
... when you submit your post.
That's great, but it's also obnoxiously big. Tomorrow, we will teach you how to resize your photos. After that, we'll talk about embedding videos and tweets in your post. For now, please experiment. Even if this all review for you, post below with some bold text, some italicized text, and a photo, to show everybody that you are down.
