How to add additional formatting features such as Bold, Italic, Quote, etc...
You can add additional formatting features, such as "Bolding",
"Underlining", "Color", and even adding smilies
by using the formatting buttons provided.
These buttons generate Formatting Codes you can use to change the appearance
of your text. Following is the list of formatting codes available along with
the associated button that will generate the code for you automatically:
Bold: enclose your text with [b] and [/b] . Example: This is [b]bold[/b] text. = This is bold text.
Italic: enclose your text with [i] and [/i] . Example: This is [i]italic[/i] text. = This is italic text.
Underline: enclose your text with [u] and [/u]. Example: This is [u]underline[/u] text. = This is underline text.
Center: enclose your text with [c] and [/c]. Example: This is [c]A Test[/c] text. This will cause the words "A Test" to be centered within the line.
Bulleted List: Create a bulletize list with [list] and [/list], and items in list with [*] and [/*].
Example:[list][*]Item 1[/*][*]Item 2[/*][*]Item 3[/*][/list]
This will cause the following list to be created:
Item 1
Item 2
Item 3
Image: You can cause an image to appear within your message by
enclosing the url of the image with [img] and [/img]. Example:[img]http://www.xyz.com/nameOfgif.gif[/img].
Font Colors:
Enclose your text with [fontcolor] and [/fontcolor] Example:[red]Text[/red] = Text Example:[blue]Text[/blue] = Text Example:[pink]Text[/pink] = Text Example:[brown]Text[/brown] = Text Example:[black]Text[/black] = Text Example:[orange]Text[/orange] = Text Example:[violet]Text[/violet] = Text Example:[yellow]Text[/yellow] = Text Example:[green]Text[/green] = Text Example:[gold]Text[/gold] = Text Example:[white]Text[/white] = Text Example:[purple]Text[/purple] = Text
Font Sizes: Example:[size=1]text[/size=1] = Text Example:[size=2]text[/size=2] = Text Example:[size=3]text[/size=3] = Text Example:[size=4]text[/size=4] = Text Example:[size=5]text[/size=5] = Text Example:[size=6]text[/size=6] = Text
FYI: Users knowing html, also have the option of utilizing the full set of html formatting tags
by embedding html tags within their messages.
How To Add Smilies to your Messages
You may have seen others using smilies in email messages or other bulletin
board messages. Smilies are keyboard characters used to convey an emotion, such as a smile
or a frown
. Your bulletin board can
automatically convert certain text to a smilie graphical representation when it is
inserted between brackets []. Following are a list of smilies that are currently
you can insert into your messages:
smile
[:)]
big smile
[:D]
cool
[8D]
blush
[:I]
tongue
[:P]
evil
[}:)]
wink
[;)]
clown
[:o)]
black eye
[B)]
eightball
[8]
frown
[:(]
shy
[8)]
shocked
[:O]
angry
[:(!]
dead
[xx(]
sleepy
[|)]
kisses
[:X]
approve
[^]
disapprove
[V]
question
[?]
-------- Animated Smilies below available with the EmailNotification Plus Feature --------
tongues
[a1]
shocking
[a2]
googleyes
[a3]
waving
[a4]
clapping
[a5]
mooning
[a6]
baby
[a7]
shy
[a8]
reading
[a9]
clowning
[a10]
playing
[a11]
strutin
[a12]
peekaboo
[a13]
Creating a Hyperlink/Email URL in your message
You can easily add a hyperlink to your message.
All you need to do is type a URL, for example typing:
http://www.cnn.com or www.cnn.com,
will cause the system to automatically create the hyperlink: http://www.cnn.com
The trick here is to make sure you prefix your URL with the "http://" or "www://"
Email Addresses are also automatically converted to a hyperlinked email addresses.
For example:
or a frown
. Your bulletin board can
automatically convert certain text to a smilie graphical representation when it is
inserted between brackets []. Following are a list of smilies that are currently
you can insert into your messages:
