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Welcome, Angel~Flight, to h2g2!

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Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged

Welcome to h2g2, an interactive, community-written collection of reference, non-fiction and fiction articles! smiley - biggrin
I'm one of the official h2g2 ACES, who try to welcome every new user personally. smiley - cool

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. smiley - magic 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 smiley - fish. The full list is at <./>smiley</.>, but most normal ones like ; - ) are accepted smiley - winkeye.

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! smiley - ok

smiley - dontpanicsmiley - towel Good Luck!

Spelugx -- <./>ACE</.>, Guru


Welcome, Angel~Flight, to h2g2!

Post 2

@Unofficial Site Assistant (USA)@



Thanks,

Can you tell me how I can put a coloured background in my personal space?

And I dont know that much smiley - laugh

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?

smiley - discosmiley - angelsmiley - disco


Welcome, Angel~Flight, to h2g2!

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Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged

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!

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@Unofficial Site Assistant (USA)@



Ok thank you, will try it now..

You should do this more often, you my friend for life now smiley - smiley

I coming to you for help hee hee..

Thank you. smiley - angel


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