[WGI] An Introduction to Basic and Intermediate article coding

Day 861, 17:03 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Writer's Guild of Ireland


In this article I am going to teach citizens of eIreland how to code articles with more complex codes then eRepublik provides. You may have wondered how other newspaper writers, normally the older ones, manage to add different fonts images and sized text when there is no buttons on your newspaper for adding them. Here is the explanation. The eRepuplik media module isn't very developed with just the basic, bold and link. Although there are many codes that work, but just simply are not added to the media module.



Basics


Bold

Bold can be used to make certain parts of text bold and stand out.



Italics

Italics can be used to make certain parts of text italics such as quotes or sarcasm.



Underlined

Underlined can be used to make certain parts of text underlined to emphasize a point or mainly for titles.



Size

Different sized writing can be used to emphasize words or for headings.



Mixed together

All the codes do not have to be separate they can be mixed to create headings.




Slightly more complicated codes


Adding a click able text-link

These can be used to link to other articles or external websites. This code is more reliable than the one of the media module.



Adding images

Possibly the best code, this livens up articles and helps to bring across points more easily.




Intermediate Codes


Adding colour

This code is one of the least used and known, it is quite long to type and the range of colours isn't really known. I've used pink, red and green. It sometimes does not work, here is a old article with coloured text.

*NOTE - I made a mistake in the image I wrote Colour instead of Color


Adding anchors

Anchors are used mainly for much longer article to quick link to different sections in an article.

e.g Test Anchor

Test goes here



Important things to note

Why does my article go black when I publish it, but the writing is there when I edit it?

This is because of a unclosed / improper code. Go back and check each one is closed properly.

Why don't codes work over the whole article?

The codes don't like when you break them up like this:
only don one code for a big block of writing. If you keep starting a new line, do a code per line to ensure it works.

Why do my links not work sometimes?

This is because some links are too long. Minify the url with http://minify.me/ or an similar program.

Codes revealed in the next article

In the next article I will release these codes, after I understand them a bit better. After that I will collate the article as a whole and release it as a guide.

EMPTY YELLOW BOX

WARNING!


ERROR!

A NICE BIG BOX!

DEFENCE!

RESISTANCE!



Important Links

I have collated the major eIrish Government Organisation links and Newspaper links which should prove useful to the general public if they need to contact a minister or verify is a organisation is official.

Here it is: (You click it to be redirected)

[img]http://i720.photobucket.com/albums/ww205/deathlingerer/ogn.jpg?t=1269132469[/img]

I would like this at the bottom of every Government Article and Citizen Article. Its not a order, but it would be very useful. The code to put it on your article is HERE just copy and paste it into your article!

Thank you for Reading,

Niall H - WGI Grandmaster

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