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HonorP00ner
10-19-2007, 09:39 PM
Table of Contents
Introduction
Easy-to-Read Guide
Tiny Guides
HTML
Placement
External Sources
Taken Topics
Relevance
Step by Step HTML

Got Problems Seeing?
The command Control & + will increase font size. Hold Control and press + repeatedly to increase font size even further. Control & - does the opposite. :)

Introduction
I would like to make a guide on making a good one. Why? I have made a successful guide and Knowledge Base and would like to show you Blank101's Checklist.

Easy-to-Read Guide
Make your guide organized rather than a piece of composed spam.
Good Example
Table of Contents
This is a good example
...
...
...
...

Section
Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text.
Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text.
Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.
Bad Example
Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text.
Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.
Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.
Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.
Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.
Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.Text. Text.

If you can I suggest you use lists to organize your information such as bullets, asterisks and\or hyphens.
If you have a brother or sister let them try to read and ask them if it is easy to read or review it yourself
A good sign of a bad guide is that it hurts your eyes
Tiny Guides
I have seen many guides which were only a paragraph or a sentence [ROFL!] long. It has to be at least a page long to meet the size requirement.
HTML
Only use HTML in guide submissions. NO BBCODE!
You might have noticed the forums do not display HTML in posts
Therefore I suggest you use Notepad or another text editor to make your guide and your web browser to preview it
Once you are done copy the code and post it in Guide Submissions
Click for a HTML Guide (http://www.pawngame.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22437)
Placement
NO GUIDES TO BE PUT IN THE GUIDE DISCUSSION SECTION!
The proper section is Guide Submissions
External Sources
Make sure at least 50% of your guide is original information
If you do use outside sources please name them like in the example below
Credits
P90_User [How to be a Good P90 nooblet]
HaxorN00b [How to Get Banned]
Nooblet [Creator]
Taken Topics
Do not make a guide on an topic which has already been taken

Glossary
Map Making Guide
Forms of Combat
Beginner Guide [Rules, Mods\Admin, Skills, Gameplay]
Maze Jumps Guide
Gun Information
/Commands
Rank List
Expert Guide
AutoHotKey Guide
FAQs
Using mIRC
HTML Guide
BBCode Guide
How to Register
Clearing your cache
Weapon Combinations
Gun Uses
Gun Strategies [Camping, Ladders, etc...]
Banning, Booting and Reporting
Signature Making
Making a Clan
Quick Rank-up

Relevance
Only make a guide that discusses gameplay
Gameplay means when you play the game
Do not make guides on how to use the forums as that is what the FAQs are for

Step-by-Step HTML
Goto your Notepad editor Start Menu + Accessories + Notepad
Let's start making your guide! Copy the code below
<html>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Guides are full of text and you can change how that text looks using the <font></font> tags. Copy the code below and place it in between the <body></body> tags
<font face ="" size="" color=""></font>
Here is an example of proper placement
<html>
</head>
<body>
<font face="" size="" color=""><font>
</body>
</html>

Now apply the font to your text by putting your text between the <font></font> tags like the example below
<font face="" size="" color="">Hello this is text I may put!</font>
What you can change
size changes size; color changes color; face changes font
Example <font face="arial" size="3" color="skyblue">Hai!</font>
Example 2 <font face="impact" size="5" color="#d9a0c0">Hello</font>
Here are other tags you can use. Place text in between these tags to change their display.
<b></b> Text; <i></i> Text; <u></u> Text
Example<b><i><u>Bai!</b><i></u>
Example 2 <font face="" size="" color=""><b>HAI!</b></font>

You should know.... Pressing enter doesn't create a new line, you must use <br> to do that. Pressing space before a line doesn't move the text you must use &nbsp;. You do not need &nbsp; when typing in between text
Got screenshots? Use the <img></img> tags to add your images. Copy the code below and place them wherever necessary
<img scr="" alt="" width="" height=""></img>

src is where the image is, alt is alternate text [optional]; width changes width [optional]; height changes height [optional]
Example<img src="img152.imageshack.us\example.jpg" alt="MY PICTURE IS MISSING >.<" width="50%" height="400"></img>
If you want to put a horizontal line use the code below
<hr width="" height="" color=""></hr>
width changes width; height changes height; color changes color
Example<hr width="100%" height="4" color="red"></hr>
Wanna make a bulleted list? This is a bit complicating.
<ul>indents; </ul>Ends indent; <li>Creates bullet
<ul><li>Text
<ul><li>Text
<li>Text
</ul></ul>
Creates this
Text
Text
Text
Got a link? No problem copy the code below
<a href="" target=""></a>
href is where the link is going to; target is where the link will open, typing _blank will open the page in a new tab\window [optional]
Example<a href="http:\\www.pawngame.com" target="_blank"></a>
Puting text in between the <a></a> tags will also work
Example 2 <a href="http:\\www.pawngame.com"><font face="arial" size=2">Visit Pawn Game!</font></a>
Wanna make a table with rows and columns? Copy the code below
<table width="" height="" border="">
<tr height="">
<td bgcolor="" bgimg="" width=""></tr></td></table>
table creates a table; border sets border width; bgcolor sets a background color while bgimg sets a background image
tr creates a new row; td creates a new column;
Example<table>
<tr>
<td bgimg="img152.imageshack.us\example.jpg"><font>Text</font></td>
<td>Stuff</td>
</tr></table>

stupidboy
10-20-2007, 09:02 PM
this hurts my eyes

mreitz
10-21-2007, 09:19 PM
Wow, you are doing a wonderful job helping pawn.

Keep up the awesome work :D.

HonorP00ner
10-21-2007, 09:27 PM
Wow, you are doing a wonderful job helping pawn.

Keep up the awesome work :D.

But this guy (http://pawngame.com/forum/showthread.php?p=153206#post153206) tried to outdo this one. I wonder if that guide to making guides is better than mines.

mreitz
10-21-2007, 09:32 PM
But this guy (http://pawngame.com/forum/showthread.php?p=153206#post153206) tried to outdo this one. I wonder if that guide to making guides is better than mines.

No it is not.

For a couple reasons.


Not easy to read.
All jumbled up.
Not as big.

wolfhowlz
10-21-2007, 09:32 PM
lol. this thread has also been ''taken'' by mreitz

stupidboy
10-21-2007, 11:45 PM
didn't any of you read my reply it hurts my eyes

HonorP00ner
10-22-2007, 12:38 AM
didn't any of you read my reply it hurts my eyes

That reply was very funny :D

DisSleeper
10-25-2007, 02:44 PM
NO GUIDES TO BE PUT IN THE GUIDE DISCUSSION SECTION!


Uhhmmm.... does anyone have a map? Where are we?

mreitz
10-25-2007, 03:52 PM
lol. this thread has also been ''taken'' by mreitz

huh? :confused:

[10 characters]

HonorP00ner
10-25-2007, 09:02 PM
Uhhmmm.... does anyone have a map? Where are we?

The fact this guide is NOT on gameplay kills the fact this needs to be in guide submissions.

HonorP00ner
10-30-2007, 09:20 PM
*Bumped* 100 views yeah!

HonorP00ner
11-12-2007, 08:11 PM
Bumpy post :D

Sargeant27
11-12-2007, 09:14 PM
triple post? :confused: anyway, nice guide. im sure it will help quite alot of want-to-be/guide makers out there.

HonorP00ner
11-30-2007, 08:06 PM
*Bumped* :)

beanmiester
12-01-2007, 12:22 PM
Stop teh bumping...

And I really dont think we need a "guide for making guides"

HonorP00ner
12-01-2007, 08:18 PM
Stop teh bumping...

And I really dont think we need a "guide for making guides"

Are you kidding? look at the n00b guides just created here.

Strelok12
12-01-2007, 08:55 PM
Even that boomfrogg guy got banned...Dunno why.

I don't give a *beep* on knowing why he got banned and my own business...

Nice guide Hunkofp00.

urnerds101
01-16-2008, 03:53 AM
bah i dont get it its too confusing for someone with a mind like mine XD:D

HonorP00ner
03-07-2008, 02:05 AM
BUMP!!!! People need to read this and post in the right section.

modalex
03-08-2008, 04:56 PM
are these the bb codes? because if they are, someone already made a guide.

HonorP00ner
03-10-2008, 11:51 PM
are these the bb codes? because if they are, someone already made a guide.

Did you even look at one word in my post?

beserker123
03-14-2008, 09:16 AM
Looking at this makes my head spin.................A bit complicated for me ;(

HonorP00ner
05-30-2008, 07:41 PM
Bumpings.... Too many crappy guides

arabftw123
05-30-2008, 07:47 PM
Bumpings.... Too many crappy guides

So if I wanted to submit my guide, I'd have to do all that? I looked through the HTML guide.. *shivers*

:eek::eek::eek: