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**THIS THREAD IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION**
I know there are some of us who are new to the world of HTML. For those of you who do not know HTML is HyperText Markup Language. HTML is a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages. (Totally copied and pasted that definition can't you tell =P) I taught myself how to use it (mostly by googling how to do what I wanted to do and copying and pasting lmao) and there is still a lot I do not know. So I've created this thread to help those of us who need it how to use HTML.
**Note: If you would like to know how to do something but do not see it posted here leave a comment and I will try to find the answer for you.**

ÓË�How to Italicize text:
Example of italicized text

Before you begin typing your text you want to type a lowercase 'i' in between < >. Make sure there are no spaces. The start typing the text you want italicized. When finished typing you want to end the code by typing '/i' in between < >. Again make sure there are no spaces. Your text should appear in italics like this:

Your text should now be italicized.



ÓË�How to Bold text:
Example of bold text

Before you begin typing your text you want to type a lowercase 'b' in between < >. Make sure there are no spaces. The start typing the text you want to appear bold. When finished typing you want to end the code by typing '/b' in between < >. Again make sure there are no spaces. Your text should appear in bold like this:

Your text should now be bold.


ÓË�How to strikeout text:
Example of strikeout text

Before you begin typing your text you want to type a lowercase 's' in between < >. Make sure there are no spaces. The start typing the text you want strikedout. When finished typing you want to end the code by typing '/s' in between < >. Again make sure there are no spaces. Your text should appear in strikeout like this:

Your text should now be strikedout.


ÓË�How to add a picture in your coment
Example:

First you want to start out with the '<' symbol. then type the following (you can copy and paste this as well) [img src="PUT IMAGE URL HERE">] leave out the brackets. Where it says 'put image url here' that's exactly what you want to do, copy and paste the image url and put it in between the quotation marks. *Note: You don't want to URL in the web bar. Right-click the picture, go to properties, and copy the URL from there*

How To's for Group Functions
*Will eventually add Instructions for these group functions to this post...

Ó˦How To Invite People to the Group
•Click on Invite People In upper right hand corner, listed under group names
•Click on 1 of the 3 choices listed under Invite People to Group, *For Friends, you simply click the boxes next to the names of GoodRead friends you would like to invite, type a message (optional), and click Invite! *For Manual, type in email addresses seperated by commas, and click Invite, *For Face Book, sing into Facebook and it will prompt you to choose friends from Facebook to invite!





Ó˦How To Create a Discussion Thread/Topic and or Folder
Ó˦How to Search for a Comment or Discussion Thread on the group
Ó˦How to create an Event
Ó˦How to Create a Poll

*If there are anymore Group How to's you would like instructions for, just leave a comment...I will editing this post thruout the day to get all the above instructions posted!

Vicki- If you want to start a topic in an alredy existing folder...

1.Click on the folder.
2.Towards the top you will see edit folders/new topic, click new topic
3.This will take you to where you will be able to title the topic, and add a comment/post about what your discussion topic will be about!
4.Hit Post, and it will be saved:D

To add a folder...
1.In the top right area of your screen under Reading Is My Escape (on home page of group) click Discussions.
2.Toward top of you screen you will see... new topic/edit folders/unread...select edit folders.
3.Here you will see all of the group folders, at the top you will see... add folder...click this.
4.type in folder name and save
5.This will put your folder at the very bottom, to place wherever you wish, use the top/move up/move down/bottom buttons to move it.
6.To add discussion/topic to it click on it, add topic, name topic, add post (just like in above instructions.

There may be an easier way to do these, but this will work! If someone else has a better way, or a tip please add it!!!

Hyper Linking

For those of you who have a challenge/reading list you can add a link in your challenge list that brings you right to YOUR orginal list in the challenge! I link all of mine to the challenge, but until now I have always just done the home page of the challenge, now I can go directly to my list! All you have to do is....

•Use the link html just like with any link (link html can be found in (some html is ok) above comment box to right) but instead of coping and pasting the url from the address bar go to your orginal list/message/post and right click on the time and date (upper right hand side of post) and select copy shortcut. Then paste it in your link html and name it what ever you want!

This is what it will look like (only remove the !)
Message about Hyper Links

With the !'s removed
Message about Hyper Links

Alright, this is not really a HTML question, so feel free to kick me out :P
But you know that favourite shelf a lot of people have on their profile pages. It's the one on top of all the categories of books, in a row by itself. How do I get one :-)

Go to your profile and under that section should be "feature a different shelf" click on that. Choose the shelf you want to show on your profile. just make sure you click the circle under feature, not the actual shelf link. that's it. Most create a separate shelf featuring their favorites just to put on their profile

Thank you Dawn, but I can't find the "feature a different shelf" section. I'm afraid I need the guide for dummies ;P

okay it took a little research but I think I figured it out. Go to your "My books page". right beside where it says "bookshelves" click on edit. find your shelf and then you can click the feature circle.

I think I did it, thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D

Quick question for any mac users. I just got a mac book, when posting pictures from my old windows laptop I always right clicked the image and copied the properties to get my image then plugged it into the html codes. How do i get my url for an image while using a mac?

How do you add an image using HTML on a Mac? I can't seem to get the URL and when I tried to add an image, I got these little question marks.

I'm on my phone so might not be able to show you properly if not in the am I can give a better example. I use a MacBook and have to hold the mouse pad and the control/function key at the same time then choose to copy image address. Then use the HTML codes with that info pasted in. Ill get you a better example up in the am when I'm on my laptop.

Great! Thank you.

Hey Dawn, how do you make the stars and hearts?

� = alt key + 3
� = & # 9733; (no spaces I had to put spaces in so you could see the code)

Thanks a bunch Dawn.