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Welcome, Angel~Flight, to h2g2!
Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Started conversation Jan 25, 2004
Welcome to h2g2, an interactive, community-written collection of reference, non-fiction and fiction articles!
I'm one of the official h2g2 ACES, who try to welcome every new user personally.
I suspect you've already got a few friends round here since you seem to already be quite savvy. You probably want to write an introduction for yourself, there's a 'Edit Page' button on your personal space to do that. Don't hesitate to ask if you need any help.
There's a number of ways to <./>contribute</.> to h2g2, and to <./>read</.> h2g2. One of the simplest is to have conversations about the topics you see. Converation threads (like this one) allow you to leave messages almost anywhere on the site. Most pages have a 'start a new conversation' button at the bottom which allows you to start a discussion about whatever you want.
Another good resource is the <./>DontPanic</.> Help Centre which can be reached via the 'Help!' button on the toolbar at the top. To find the busiest places on hootoo you can look at the list of busiest conversations on the <./>FrontPage</.>, but <./>Askh2g2</.> is usually always busy. If you want to see what other people are writing, have a look in PeerReview. Everyday five articles are published as being 'edited' by the editors, and you can see what has been edited in the past at Month.
A cool thing about h2g2 is the large collection of smilies that you can put into conversations . The full list is at <./>smiley</.>, but most normal ones like ; - ) are accepted .
h2g2 also has a small number of <./>HouseRules</.>. If you see anything which you find offensive you can use the 'yikes' button, a small '!', to alert the BBC's moderation team.
If you want any help or advice just reply to this post (there's a link at the bottom) and I'll do my best!
Good Luck!
Spelugx -- <./>ACE</.>, Guru
Welcome, Angel~Flight, to h2g2!
@Unofficial Site Assistant (USA)@ Posted Jan 25, 2004
Thanks,
Can you tell me how I can put a coloured background in my personal space?
And I dont know that much
I know how to do: smileys, pictures, different coloured fonts, tags, etc..
but not backgrounds, and can't understand guideML explaining
things..
and can you tell me how to get my headers (titles) into the centre of the page?
Welcome, Angel~Flight, to h2g2!
Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Jan 25, 2004
I think a few people have some good explanatory pages for these things, I'll ask around. But meantime, here's my stab at it:
First, centering things:
Header
Backgrounds:
stuff goes here
I don't tend to do this a lot, I try to stick to just the edited guide stuff, since I'm a <./>subeditor</.>, and I know a number of people with sight problems, so I try to always make things as plain as possible, so their special formatting works.
spelugx -- <./>guru</.>
Welcome, Angel~Flight, to h2g2!
@Unofficial Site Assistant (USA)@ Posted Jan 25, 2004
Ok thank you, will try it now..
You should do this more often, you my friend for life now
I coming to you for help hee hee..
Thank you.
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