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

Hi there and welcome to H2G2.

I am Flanker and I'm an Assistant Community Editor <./>ACE</.> which is a sort of official greeter.

Part of our job is to be there if any help is needed by a new researcher and make sure that they can find their way about the site.

To do this I thought you might like a quick list of places and things that are available to help you.

Firstly find out more about some of the jargon used on h2g2 try A632431 and A901829 then if you want to jazz up your own user page then go to 'Spicing up your User Page' (A690518).

Another thing which will help you along the road is our newspaper <./>ThePost</.> which contains lots of news, articles and links to all the groups and meetings places.

Feisor, another <./>ACE</.>has created a page of hints and links for new researchers at A719840. which along with the <./>DontPanic</.> Help Centre (which can be reached via the 'Help!' button on the toolbar at the top.) are really good pages to start with.

One last thing is (smileys). The full list is at <./>smileys</.> and you can find out more about them there.

I, personnally, tend to hang about <./>Askh2g2</.>, which is usually fairly busy. So I'll maybe catch you there.



If you have any questions, need any help or want a bit of encouragement simply reply to this message and I'll be there as soon as I can .


HTH & HAND.

Flanker

Thank you Flanker, I'll check out a few of those links.

I'm not sure I'll need too much encouragement - I just hope people don't get annoyed if I poke my nose into their well established conversations.

I may be back with some questions later if that's alright.

F

*waves to fathom*

I'm sure no-one will get upset and any help you need just shout.

Hey Flanker,

Sorry to disturb you but...

How do I post a link to a thread? Do I just copy the link in the same manner I would for, say, an e-mail? I notice a lot of internal (site) links are of the form A12345 so presumably there's some way of abbreviating these from the full URL.



F

Hi Fathom,

Good to hear from you again

You can create links like this -


Links

To create a link to an h2g2 page, use this tag:
Your description The name can be U42 (a user page) or A719840 (an entry) or even DontPanic (a help page).

To create a link to the user page of another h2g2 researcher you can also use this tag:

This is another tag that is closed right away, because you don't have to add any description - the tag will automatically pick the user name connected with that user number. The user number used as an example belongs to Santa.

To create a link to an external site, use this tag:
Your description
For example Annabella's HTML Help (by the way, this is a very good site if you want to learn more about HTML tags).

Hope this is of use

Thanks for the speedy reply Flanker.

How do I know what the name of the page is? Is it the number shown at the end of the URL in the address box or is there something more subtle than that?

F

No Problem.... and yesy the numberat the end is the page number

Wanders off to try this out...

F

...remembers to wave a polite thank you back at Flanker ...

F