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.
Paginating articles
To help improve the formatting of your articles you can use the custom bbcode tags when posting your article:
[size=24][b]Introduction[/b][/size]
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This is the first page of this article
[size=24][b]Second page[/b][/size]
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This is the second page of this article
This text will not be seen because it is outside the page tags.
[size=24][b][/b][/size]
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This is the third page of this article. The title for this page has been left blank and will automatically be called 'Page 3' when the article is viewed.
[page]
In the example above you can see how each page of text simply has to be enclosed with the page tags. You can add a name for that particular page after the = sign, but if you leave it blank the page will automatically be entitled "page1"/"page2" etc. Pages are numbered in the order the tags come in, ie the first pair of page tags will always be page 1, the second will always be page 2.
Your pages, navigation links and index will be automatically generated when someone views your article, easy as that! You can still edit your article at any time as normal and add/remove/rearrange anything you wish.
Any text which is not enclosed by the page tags will not be displayed. Obviously this only applies if you choose to use the page tags for your article - they are entirely optional!
This is page 3, which has yet to be written!
The End
This is page four, unloved and unwanted. Pity poor page four
