Some well respected citizens of the realm have been seen brandishing poorly conceived links throughout the kindgom and china

So .. I give you, in my usual wordy way, a tutorial ... yes, others seem to convey the same information in a much more consise way ... I just laugh at them .. hahaha .. wordy is the only way

begin:

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ŻŻŻŻŻ””/(”ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ””/(”ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Ż””/(”ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ

There is a piece of text to place in front .. and at the end

but .. the website will hide those from YOU if I type them here

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copy this message to notepad and use the replace function to replace the "(" with "<" ... and .. ")" with ">"

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(a href=" .. in front .. replace the "(" with "<"

and

")HERE(/a) .. in back ... replace the "(" and ")" with the appropriate "<" or ">"

And replace the word "HERE" .. with whatever message you wish to be displayed .. (ie .. sparky's playground)

NOTE: the little " symbols in those strings are important

EXAMPLE: (a href="http://www.caedes.net")CAEDES(/a)

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for NON links .. just words ..

(i)(b)(u) .. in front

(/i)(/b)(/u) .. in back

will ITALIC .. BOLD .. UNDERLINE

*replace the usual ..

or use them individually instead of together .. this works for complete sentences, paragraphs .. etc

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Placing this at the end of a link instead of the one mentioned above will BOLD .. ITALIC .. UNDERLINE your link message text

")(i)(b)(u)HERE(/i)(/b)(/u)(/a) ... ... = HERE

*replace the usual bits again

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as I mentioned .. I keep these and other pieces of text in a notepad file I keep handy .. and just copy and paste them into place

also .. remove my notes from YOUR file once it makes sense to you .. and re-arrange as necessary to suit YOUR needs .. then you'll have room to collect and add cool pieces of ASCII art like the one below

_____..)/..________..)/.._____ ___..)/..________
ŻŻŻŻŻ””/(”ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ””/(”ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Ż””/(”ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ

If you'd like to practice .. go to a comment you've already made and "edit" it .. add in a link to your gallery .. re-edit, if necessary, till it works ..

questions = holler

oh! .. and I almost forgot .. if you find this useful .. you have to name your firstborn after me .. if your firstborn is already born and named .. then change it ... so ... let's see a show of hands who finds this helpful ...

hmmmpppfffttt .. nobody?