How to Create Links and Edit Text for Forums

Hi. Forums typically use "UBB" code to create links, and to edit text (making text bold and italics.) I found this to be easily forgettable, and so I've created a little cheat sheet on how to do this.

Create a Link:

To make a url link in your forum post, use the [url] tag before the url link and the [/url] tag at the end of it. It turns the url link that you have in between the tags into a clickable link.

URL tag: [url]
Closing URL tag: [/url]

Here's what you would use to make a link to Bookerville's home page as an example:

    [url]http:www.bookerville.com[/url]

Putting this in the text of your post would result in a clickable link to the Bookerville home page, like this:

    http:www.bookerville.com

Bold:

To make text Bold, put a "Bold" tag before the text that you want bolded, and put a "Closing Bold" tag at the end.

Bold tag: [b]
Closing Bold tag: [/b]

Italics

To make text Italics, put an "Italics" tag before the word, and put a "Closing Italics" tag at the end.

Italics tag: [i]
Closing Italics tag: [/i]

Thoroughly confused? Let me know: Comment here or email me: cindy@bookerville.com

Cindy

 

 
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