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

Greetings to you, Tony (who should read the next paragraph for info on changing alias to something besides Researcher , and welcome to the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy online, or H2G2. I am Vidmaster, an ACE, or Assistant Community Editor. That means that I welcome people like you who are newcomers to the site. I'm here for you to ask questions of, and to get you started in your wanderings of our community.

Here are some helpful things to get you started:

The H2G2 Post have made a nice little links page for those of us that don't carry them around in our heads. You can find it at A616718.

For a longer welcome, go to the Welcome that the editors (usually called the Italics, as their names appear in italics in the who's online menu) who keep the site running have written at A317459. It's got a lot of the basic background and how-tos that you will need - it is a very good place to start.

Then, should you desire, you can take the H2G2 Tour at A317459 to see how it all works and become familiar with the system.

If some of the H2G2 terms leave you a little confused, there is a great page about it at A632431.

When you have the time to fix up your introduction, I suggest you look at the GuideML Clinic over at A187229. While GuideML isn't necessary for a good page, you can do a whole lot of cool stuff with it that you can't do in plain text mode (such as hyperlinks, graphics, headers, lists, and a whole bunch more). If you're interested in it, but it seems like a bit much, just let me know and I can give you a tutorial of some sort.

If you have any questions or just want to talk, either post them in this conversation or drop me a note at my home space over at U185266.

Have fun, and May your blade remain ever sharp.
Vidmaster

I just noticed that I got the wrong name in my first line of greeting. I apologize most humbly for that. I suppose that's what comes of doing several of these at once after being up for about 20 hours or so.

Let me now welcome you, TeriYakimoto, to the site. You can just ignore the whole first sentance of the previous posting, since I sort of messed it up. Oh well, I suppose it does prove that the ACEs are human too, and can mess up pretty badly sometimes.


Vidmaster

i was wondering what that was all about, but no problem.

Glad to hear it. Enjoy your wanderings, and if you have any questions, just ask.