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

Hello and welcome to the wonderful community of h2g2 , also called 'hootoo'.
I am your <./>ACE</.> and have come to meet you and to greet you and to help you with your first steps on this site.
First things first :
, there's always somebody near to help you with whatever your problem might be. For example you can reply to this message and/or ask me a question by simply pressing the reply button. Or you can click on the name above this message, which will bring you directly to my Personal Space ( recommended ), where you can leave a message for me.

Here is the Welcome Message from DNA, the founder of the site: A157349
h2g2 is all about writing entries for the edited guide, and I'm fairly sure there'll be a topic YOU could write about, so why not give it a try?
Go here for more info: A53209
In case that's not your cup of tea, there's still the <./>writing-alternative</.> for creative writing, as well as <./>ThePost</.>.

Things you should know before you start :
This is an open forum, so everything you post can be read by everybody else, and you cannot delete it, nor can you correct it once it is sent. This is where the 'preview' button below your answering box comes in handy.
The only thing you can edit or delete, is any guide entry you create, which includes the introduction on your Personal Space.
If you want to 'spice it up', you'll need to use guide ml. I have found this A1123354 to be very helpful, but there is also the Guide ML Clinic: A187229

Before you start: why not read the Guide to Netiquette on h2g2 at A901838 before you put your foot in? You're much less likely to accidentally upset somebody if you're familiar with the site's Netiquette. To give you an impression of how you may feel if you posted before thinking, take a look here: A11284193
If you reply to this message and tell me a bit about your interests, I can most certainly point you directly to the best places to go.

For more tips and insight you can read these pages:

h2g2 Welcome page: A28749630

h2g2 in a nutshell: A8468742

Hints and Links: A719840

and don't miss to read the <./>FrontPage</.>, and the aforementioned forums.

Take your time, have a look around the site, and enjoy yourself .
P.S. I'm certainly prone to having forgotten something vital to you, so please don't be shy, hit the reply button below this message.

Bel

Hi Bel - thanks so much for the Ace welcome - there really is a lot of exciting prospects ahead - just one small query - is there a spell-check facility?

Wrest a Spell
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea every wrong

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew

(anon)

Slippery Ramparts

I see that you are aware of the flaws of spell checkers (they#re described here, btw: A52491512)

There is no spell checker here, but if your browser is Mozilla Firefox or Opera, then you can either get one as an add-on (Mozilla) or inbuilt (Opera). I seem ti recall Google Chrome offers it, too. Only Internet Exploder doesn't offer one.

I see that you are a writer, so I hope you'll pop over to our Alternative Writing Workshop at <./>RF5</.>

Maybe you'd like to share your experiences from your job as pieces for the Edited Guide? You could either start out in the Edited Guide Writing Workshop <./>RF2</.> or directly in <./>Peerreview</.>

Whatever you decide, it's great to have you here. Welcome once again.

Thanks Bel - I just love your Internet Exploder- I'll take that as deliberate given the context. I looking forward to having a go at all there is to offer - thanks
Slippery

Yes, it was deliberate - although I've been known to make the most hair raising mistakes.

You've made a very good start by writing an introduction and by replying to my welcome message, you'll feel at home here in practically no time if you stick around.