Hey everyone,
A member on here asked me how I made my signature showing the links to all the posts about my world; and if I could write a short tutorial about how to do it. Though I don't still use it, it's really quite simple, and I'll show you how in the following steps. So within five minutes, you could have one too!

Here's the basic code for the signature. Just a minute and I'll tell you what it all means. (Note: these links don't actually go to what they say, since this is just an example):

And here is what that code spits out:
World of Enderion:
The Deelqaves | Nation of Sannahet | Nation of Tarbiyaan | Language of Tarbiyaan (Зaru) | Nation of Qaluros | Language of Qaluros (Derrà) | Nation of the Enclave | Nation of Nerandia | Main Characters | The Book

Let's break down what's in this. It's basically just a collection of links, with some BBCode to make it look nice. First I wrote "World of Enderion" in bold (that's what the tag does when it wraps around the title). Then, I made the text following that small (using the "size" tag...see how it opens with at the very beginning of our list and ends with once we're done. That just tells the forum to show everything in between those two tags small. You can make it as small as you like, but below size 60 it gets pretty hard to read. 100 is normal.

Now, to make the links themselves. Navigate to one of your posts about your world. I'll go to the one about Deelqaves. In the creatures forum, I find my thread, and right click on it. Then I click 'copy link location' (Or similar; might be different if you don't use Firefox or a PC).. It looks like this: So there's our link, but we can make it shorter than that, I think. Go to TinyUrl, which is a service for shortening urls. Once you've shortened your url, come back to your signature under construction, and we'll go about making the link.

This is what a link code looks like: In this example, if you were to click on Link Text Here, it will take you to google.com. Paste that shortened url you just made where http://www.google.com is right now. Instead of Link Text Goes Here, put whatever you'd want your title to be. If we continue with my example about the Deelqaves post, I'd type "Deelqaves" or something like that.

There you go! Link one is done! Press "space" after the first link, insert a pipe (looks like this: |), press "space" again, and start to work on your second link. I won't walk you through it all again, basically just copy and paste the code of your first link, which remember looks something like this: and paste it after the pipe. Shorten the URL of your second post about your world, and do the second link just like you did the first one.

Repeat as many times as necessary! There you go....you're done. Now just set it as your signature and voila! You're done...pat yourself on the back. And if I muddled you so badly that you have no clue how to do this, you can just copy and paste the code I wrote at the top and replace all the links and titles.

Hopefully this was easy to understand, and hopefully it answered your question Timotheus. If anyone's still reading, kudos!

eruheran

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