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

Hi there, and welcome to h2g2!
I am Roadkill, and I'm an ACE (Assistant Community Editor). This means that I'm here to help. If there's something you're puzzled about , don't hesitate to ask me or one of my fellow ACEs.

And so we come to the links. These are to help you find your feet, and jump start you into the community .

The smileys: These are the cute little yellow things that are liberally dotted around the screen . These can all be found at <./>Smiley</.> or by clicking on whichever smiley you want to learn how to do.

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 nice people (usually called the Italics, as their names appear in italics in the who's <./>online</.> menu) who keep the site running have written at <./>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 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 A632431.

To supplement this, Feisor has made a new users page at A719840

Oh, and also: Don't Panic. If you do, then go to <./>DontPanic</.> for all your FAQ needs.

Hope to see you around, bye for now, and if you need anything, ask.
Roadkill.

My name is Feisor and I too am an ACE (Assistant Community Editor) at h2g2, (there are lots of us) *waves to Roadkill*

Just thought that I would pop in and add that if you would like to give yourself a name (numbers can be a little impersonal - and hard to remember ) you can do so by hitting the "preferences" button on your screen. If you are viewing in "goo" (dark blue background) the button is at the left hand side nestled in the goo - don't know where it is in alabaster (white background) cause I'm a goo fan - but I am sure that you will find it there somewhere

If I can be of help don't hesitate to pop over to my space (click on my name at the top of this message) or hit the "reply" button below and leave a message.



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


Feisor

Hello again Feisor

I really should put some of that in my welcome message.

S'ok Roadkill - most new researchers have the name thing under control - I only use it for the ones that overlook the preference option

Cheers anyway.

Happy Towel Day!!!

And to you too!

Well, I actually did try to change my name on Preferences once already, but for some reason it didn't take.

Well, you'e obviously got it together now



How are you enjoying h2g2??

Something I probably should mention as it's very popular is the Post. <./>thepost</.> is the official h2g2 newspaper- full of interesting features. Comes out each thursday. And the little link things go like this: if it's a named page like Smiley, you just put <./> </.> around it. If it's any other sort of page you put the page number down e.g. my home page is U185550 .