How does everyone do the cool and interesting posts, where they insert clickable items (like page numbers, or a “Completed”, “Started” button categories), among the many other interesting things? Is there a guide on here or somewhere else on how to achieve that?
Those are html codes. Here’s a bit about formatting. You can also just right click and choose inspect element overtop to see the html code for simple copying.
If you want to make colored bars with game information like the ones in my Feb 2018 progress post, feel free to use my colored bar generator. Put information into the fields, copy the code below the preview, then paste it where you want the bar to appear in your post. I can make more generators if anyone wants them.
Thank you for the generator, I’ll let myself snatch it for my own use :) I was using similar ones for my own posts, that’ll surely save some time.
Sorry for the highjacking but how hard is it to make such a generator? I feel like doing one for my templates, should save me some time and make the process a lot easier too. Got any tuto you could point me to so I could make my own?
It’s not that hard, but it takes time. When I was making the generator, I didn’t use any tutorials, so I can’t point you to any. But you’ll definitely want to learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You can always view source code of the generator and check how it works.
Html and css are easy. Js however seems to be a pain. It was late for me so I didn’t get how all stuff got added the first time, but now I see the js file… I’ll try to look more into it but I’m not sure I’ll have enough motivation to create my own! :’)
Congrats to you though for the effort of writing your own!
Thanks for the idea, I don’t know why it never crossed my mind to make myself a generator for my own posts… I shall add it to my never ending to-do list :D
Tso had created a useful guide with some basics on post formatting at the very end of it.
For more advanced stuff Akantha was kind enough to share some templates you can use. They’re in her profile description (last tab)
And if you feel up to the task you can dive in HTML directly by opening a post you like, Right click and select “View Page Source” then identifying the part of the code that is responsible for the formatting. So in short, there’s a handful of people here that are familiar with HTML well enough to create unique posts/formats and then a bunch of dirty, little thieves(myself included :P) that just steal it and use it xD