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Posted on 02-05-08 01:20:47 AM

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Hm, it's not that complicated- anything in the header field will be put before your post, and anything in the signature goes after- make sure to close all tags, especially if you're using tables or CSS or something... (Alright, I have no idea how to use CSS)... Say, if you wanted to put your entire post bold (no idea why), you'd just put "<b>" in the header and "</b>" in the signature, and your whole post would have the <b> tag applied to it...

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Posted on 02-05-08 01:21:24 AM (last edited by HyperHacker at 02-04-08 10:23 PM)

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Jul - Post #2263 - 02-04-08 08:21:24pm

It's like writing HTML, except you're just writing the code that goes:
<td>here
[your post]
----------------
and here.</td>
So no body tags or silly things like that. Also, scripts aren't allowed, and if you use stylesheets, put your name or something in the class names so it doesn't collide with other peoples' layouts or the board styles. (Doing this on purpose = instant death.)

Also, since some people seem to forget this, you still have to follow the same design rules as an actual web page: don't make big ugly/annoying/slow-loading shit.

(It's also possible to do some magic with other profile fields to customize the other table cells, but I suspect a certain admin would be annoyed if you did.

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Posted on 02-06-08 08:42:02 AM

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Oh yes, and make sure that your layout looks half-decent, and that we can read it. I tend to just not pay attention to people if they have a crappy layout, and they also piss off the Mods/Admins.

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Posted on 02-10-08 01:33:41 AM

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My hints for layouts:

Use a web-safe font that everybody has. Preferably, use Verdana or Georgia. These are both designed to be very readable on the screen, and they are available on both Windows and on the Macintosh. They are also complete font families and have true bold and italic variants.
Don't make your text too small. In fact, try to make it 10pt or larger. Smaller fonts can be used for things such as signatures, but not for main text.
Make sure to give your text sufficient padding from other elements. Also experiment with line-height for readability.
Make sure there is sufficient contrast between your text elements and their background.
Utilise colour-theory to find suitable layout colours.

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