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

I wonder If you could help but I can't seem to get the hang og gudie ml because i'm not that good with computer stuff. Please explain in very simple childlike terms

thankyou

It would be my pleasure Ok, when you start a new Guide Entry it is in plain text. Beneath the input box (where you type in your text) there are a few boxes you can tick. The important one is is the GuideML, make sure it has the wee dot in it and click the 'Change Style' button. Your Entry will now be read as GuideML.

GuideML uses 'tags' (I think they are called that) to change the layout of a page. THere are a huge range of them, but you only really need three.

1. The Paragraph Tag - at the begining of a paragraph but a , and at the end put an

2. The Header Tag - When you want a title then before the words put and after the words put

3. The SubHeader Tag - When a real title would not be necassary, but some sort of header is needed you put a right before the words and right after them.

So here is an example you can copy and paste into one of your Entries to give an idea.

GuideML

What is it all about? Is it worth the agro? Of course it is, it isn't difficult, honest 'guv

The Three Important Tags

1. The paragraph tag

2. The header tag


3. The subheader tag



Hopefully when that is pasted into an Entry it will come out ok. A few extras here - all tags have a closing tag, so has and has . If they don't then the page will not work. There are more elegant ways of doing lists than the above, but it is a bit more advanced.

Hopefully this is enough for you to get on with I hope you understand what I am trying to say Once you have mastered this, or if you have any questions about my dodgy explanation then just yell here and I will come a running Well, until later....
BCNU - Crescent