h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Back in a moment - just changing machines...

Whoami?

ok! sounds good to me!

Sorry about delay - had a bit of a tech problem

Now, step one is to turn the entry into GuideML - using the radio buttons on the edit page. (the little circles with dots) and the submit button next to them. Then, set out the headers that you might wnat to use, using header here tags.

Whoami?

right....
*giving it a bash*

i'm really not any good at this
what do you think the headers should be?

*i'll understand if you want to give up on me now!*

How's about starting with something like:

Introduction

Supermarkets are much more variable in quality and size in France than in the UK. At one end of the spectrum, there are massive hypermarchés selling everything from clothes to computers, food to furniture. At the other end, there are some really awful hell-holes...

Or something along those lines - to grab the interest of the reader. The tags are used for paragraphs, and the for italics. Almost every tag is paired, with a start tag '' and an end tag . For linking to an Entry (edited only), you'd use Entry, or to include an automatic link with the real title, an unpaired tag like this:

Hope that is beginning to help!

ok
this is all so complicated!
but thanks so much for all this help!!!!

It starts off complicated, but you'll get used to it. Normally, your thread would have been moved to the Writing Workshop or somewhere by now, since it isn't yet ready, but since Bossel does most of the cleaning up, or at least seems to, and knows what's happening, he's leaving you around here!

ok, thanks!
are you sure you don't want to have you're name on it? you seem to be doing a lot of work!

ok, i think i've got the first paragraph sorted (ish)
but i'm kinda stuck on how the 2nd should go

*i know, i'm hopeless!*

oo, i have to go
but i will be back at 4pm!

Sorry I haven't been around as much as I'd hoped - there was a major problem early afternoon which caught me. Speak to you soon! I'll not be around more until Monday luchtime now - bye!

Whoami? *cursing ing computers*

i somehow managed to loose this conversatiob somewhere!

Oh well. How are you getting on?

not too well with the entry

i try and update it, but it just comes up with an error saying that it expected something or other, i try adding that but it still doesn't work!

it makes me want to just give up on it!

OK. Fair enough - the gist of it's already covered in my Food Shopping in France Entry, but in no great depth at all...

well, feel free to put any of my entry into it. thanks for all your help!

I tell you what - it is already Edited, but I will grovel with Anna McGovern when she returns and get you credited on that. I knew I'd got the inspiration from somewhere. If you want to withdraw this from Peer Review, I can sort that, too. Hope to speak to you again soon, L!

Hi you guys,

I was just wondering, if you were interested, I'd love to add some stuff to this and offer it to the main article. Is it Food shopping in France? I read that once and wished I had been around when it was in PR.

Sorry to stick my nose in, and feel free to tell me to push off.

Whaddaya say? Want Supermarché info?

Spiff