How To Decorate Your Posts: Advanced Version!

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to How To Decorate Your Posts, the Advanced Version! Why advanced? Because the BBCode Guide in the lower right-hand corner is the beginner's version.

So, I suggest you read that first.

Did you read it? Did you WANT to read it? No? Yes? Great! Let's move on, regardless!

COLORS

Okay. So you all know about the colors list up above, correct? Just click the colorful grid and a rainbow of colors will suddenly be at your disposal. Except for one thing. Those are only fourteen out of the millions of color choices out there. They're WAY more.
Here's an example. Do you see the color "purple" in that list. I see indigo. I see violet. But no purple. But what if, instead of THIS:

Code:

[color=violet]example[/color]

You wrote THIS:

Code:

[color=purple]example[/color]

Congratulations. You have just turned this example into this example. Sweet huh?

But even the words of colors are limited. Here's where we get into the millions: numbers and letters.

So say you have the color red. But did you know there's another way to write red? And I don't mean rojo, rosso or rouge. Ready for it? Here it goes: #FF0000

... Don't look at me like that, that's red, I'm telling you.

Don't believe me still? See for yourself.
EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE

One of those words was colored using RED as the tag. The other, using the code #FF0000. Can you tell the difference? You can't, can you?
I TOLD you that was red.

Alright. Now I'm going to teach you how to color MORE than one thing at one time.

See this? This is pretty cool looking, huh?

What about this? Who knew you could color this little line in like that?

This is actually simpler to do than it looks, trust me.

For COLORED UNDERLINING (my first example), the code for it is THIS:

Code:

[color=INSERTCOLOROFCHOICEHERE][u][color=INSERTCOLOROFCHOICEHERE]example[/color][/u][/color]

For a COLORED STRIKETHROUGH, the code is THIS:

Code:

[color=INSERTCOLOROFCHOICEHERE][strike][color=INSERTCOLOROFCHOICEHERE]example[/color][/strike][/color]

Simple enough? Great. Now, for your usage, I have provided below a list of colors you can use. There aren't many number&letter colors, but you can get these from Photobucket, or any random color generator sight (I use Photobucket for mine).

REDS


ORANGES


YELLOWS


GREENS


BLUES


PURPLES


PINKS


GRAYS



ℒєтţｅʁιｎɞ

Lettering is a simple copy&paste thing. All you have to do is select the letter you want, copy it and paste it wherever you want. It can turn a word like this: Taylor into THIS: тαұłợя. Isn't that pretty? Add it with the coloring factor and ta-da!

You get THIS: тαұłợя

Yay, we're learning!

Alright. Since lettering doesn't require much explanation, here's a list of letters for you!


Yeah, I'm missing a couple. But Gaia doesn't like Zs for some reason. I can't find them!


S ♪ Y ● M B ☆ O ✿ L S

Using symbols is the exact same as using lettering: copy&paste. Symbols are just pretty - they don't need a point or a purpose, although they're mostly used to separate first names from last (i.e. Cornelius ➠ Daxton), as decoration to the beginning and end of a name (i.e. ☆ Cornelius Daxton ☆), creating a break or barrier in between two sections like this:
☆ Cornelius Daxton ☆

➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠

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Arrows and dots are good for this sort of things. Or to start a new paragraph like so:

☆ Cornelius Daxton ☆

➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠➠

● wordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswords.

● wordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswordswords


See? Not hard at all.
Ready for some symbols, everyone?


So there you have it. One handy-dandy posting guide, for anyone's disposal. And plus, I have now given you an extra way to be creative. And you can NEVER have too much creativity.

Au revior,
waytotheDAWN

http://www.colorpicker.com/

Use this website for the color codes.

Also something to add to this if you switch editor modes, all you need to do is highlight the stuff you want to change and click the button such as bold, more times than not, it's easier to see than being all confused by the codes.