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

Welcome to h2g2 - and don't worry - Once you get to know us we're quite nice really You never know you might even end up being grateful to Laura for introducing you to h2g2 - than again ....

My name is Feisor and I am an ACE (Assistant Community Editor) here at h2g2.

We ACEs are here to assist new researchers so if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
You can leave a message on my space just by clicking on my name at the top of this message or by hitting the reply button below - it won't hit back (usually).

The "Italics" (they are the people who run this place - so-called because their names are displayed in bold italics - God Bless 'Em) have left a message for newcomers at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Welcome-Newcomers
it's got a lot of the basic background and how-tos that you will need - a good place to start

Then you can take the H2G2 Tour at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A317459 to see how it all works

If some of the H2G2 terms leave you a little confused, there is a great page about it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A632431 (thanks to Dastardly for this great page)

And finally, the editors of our own newspaper The H2G2 Post have made up a page of links - you can find it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A616718 and then you can read The Post

Well - that should keep you busy for a while I am sure that you will love this community as much as we do There's lots of things to see, clubs to join and people to meet - please don't be shy - just jump right in - this is a friendly place. But be careful - it can become quite addictive - believe me I know



Enjoy!!
Have fun!!!
and above all DON'T PANIC!!!


Feisor

Ah wonderful. As for the terms and everything I am curretly bein force fed a diet of "A Trilogy in Five Parts" which seems to be working as I rapidy approach Milliways - It is amazing the small but constant refereces to the book which I now understand that have slipped past me in conversations between fanatical friends of mine AKA Laura and Laura.

O and Im not panicking, Im just goign to head quietly over to the alcohol section =)

Allow me ....



Enough???

Let me know if I can help with anything

there is one thing actually, i tried putting a picture on my personal space and it didnt work - i just coppied the code out of the opicture gellery and set the My Space to GuideML - what am i doing wrong?

I'm not sure what you're doing but when I started out I used to look at the coding for other users' pages to see how they did what they did and then I'd do a cut and paste changing the Blob codes as necessary. (I'm not all that good at coding - it's more or less trial and effort with me )

See if this helps

If you see something you like you can see how it's done by typing http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/testuserpageXXXXX where XXX is the user number, for instance to view the code for my page type http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/testuserpage38014 - it's probably nice if you ask before "pinching" code but you can have anything off my page without asking

If you are still having trouble let me know and I'll find you a Guru to help.

Is that ok???

Feisor

BTW - to put in my "wink" pic I used



so if you change it accordingly it should work

ah thanx. anyway i think im vaguely finding my feet now, whihis good.

I had a quick look at your page - I think that I may see the problem,
when you use smileys in Guide entries etc the format is <SMILEY TYPE="schooloffish"/> - you can't just type the smiley like you do in threads.

Try this and I'll look at it again when I get home tonight - I'm posting from w*rk at the moment.

Ok, will do.

Hey!! It's looking good!!

Congrats!!!

Ah thanx

carving out my own space - gotta make it live up to its owner