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This thing above is part of the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. It lets you format your text in a much more intuitive way than using HTML tags. Mouse over the buttons to see what they are, but here are a few important ones you'll probably use most often:
Bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough. We gotta wonder about you if you've never seen these buttons before (like in Microsoft Word).
Quick tip: Try not to use bolding, underlining, or all-caps for simple emphasis. Those don't look good to most people, and the underlining could be mistaken for a link. Try italics instead.
- Make a numbered or...
- bulleted list.
You can make a block indent with those arrows.
Or you can put stuff in block quotes with those quotation marks.
Use these for left, center, right, or block justify. You can also use the center justify button to center an image, by the way.
Use this to create a hyperlink. From here, you will see this pop-up window:
Just paste in the full URL. Simple!
For links to other websites, please make target "new window" to make those clicks open up a new browser screen (so you don't actively send people away from Bitmob, which we won't like!). For links to Bitmob content, you can have those open in the "same window."
For "advisory title," please give a word or very short description of what you're linking to. This helps with search engines as well and is the text that pops up when you mouse over the text/link.
Add image, add media (like videos), create a table (don't worry about this one), add horizontal line, insert special character (like weird sŷmbóls©), and add jump (which we'll place for you if we promote your story to the front page).
This is what you'll see when you try to add an image. Just copy and paste in the URL of the picture you're trying to use. It'd be nice if you put in a label or description in the "alternative text" part, too. Again, search engines dig that stuff.
For the width, don't go over 600 px wide, or else the fixed columns will cut your picture off. (To be exact, you can go 607 px wide.)
Don't worry about the border -- Bitmob adds that in automatically for you. But do make sure you put in spacing to the left, right, top, and/or bottom of the image, to make sure the text doesn't bump right up against it (ugly, yuck). What spacing you use depends on how you align the picture.
For example, if you "align right" at the start of a paragraph (which looks best, if the picture isn't sitting by itself), then you'll want "10" on the left and "5" at the bottom. If you "align left," then put "10" on the right and "5" at the bottom. If you "align middle," you shouldn't need to add any spacing at all.
Another tip: If your image is embedded in a paragraph, using "5" for spacing on top will actually cause the top of the picture to line up with your text better. We don't know why this is, but it happened on our old site, too.
Finally, if you want to put in a video, just enter the main URL (not embed code) here. This works with YouTube and several other services but not necessarily every video site out there. We're working on that!
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