Article Posting - Mini HOWTO

[Marty]

Few formatting examples that will help you make your articles more exciting



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To align an image to the LEFT and have text wrap around it
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CODE: [floatleft][img]link_to_image[/img][/floatleft]

TIP: You can size your image like so [img=320x240]link_to_image[/img] This will resize the image to 320px by 240px This doesn't preserve the width to height ratio, so it won't work on cropped images

This will produce a result like so:






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To align an image to the RIGHT and have text wrap around it
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CODE: [floaright][img]link_to_image[/img][/floatright]

This will produce a result like so:






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To make the 1st starting letter larger
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CODE: [float=left][img]http://www.orchidboard.com/community/gallery/data/515/O.jpg[/img][/float]

NOTE: Replace the "O" in O.jpg with capital letter of your choice

This will produce a result like so:







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Front Page Teaser
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You'll notice that the front page shows only the beginning part of the article. This is known as a teaser. Remember, visitors skim over the articles and if the article has something interesting, they will click "Read More". You want to make sure that the teaser captures the reader's attention. Nothing works better then an intriguing photo and cleaver beginning

How do you determine the size of the teaser???? Enter where the break should be:

CODE: <!--break-->
















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