Introduction

Welcome to this short guide on how to use the custom bbcode tags to better format your articles here on The Snarkpit.

Firstly if you look at the top of the page you can see information displayed about the current article such as it's title, author and category information.



Notice that the description you entered when creating your article appears underneath this information. The description is also displayed on the article listing page, and so you should try and make sure that your description provides a salient overview of your article's content.

Your article's thumbnail image is also displayed here, and on the article listing page. This small image helps to more easily identify your article. An ideal size for this image is around 140x140px, but do not worry as your image will be automatically resized before being displayed.

This information is what appears when users browse a list of articles on our site:



The above information is only displayed on the first page of your article. If your article has only a single page then it will always be displayed. On subsequent pages the above information is shortened, and only the article title, your name and the article index is shown.