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ICcode Help Page
"ICcode" is a way of adding special features (like bold and
hyperlinks) to text you contribute to the
Informed Consent website. You can use ICcode in any input
box that lets you enter more than one line of text: so that is the bodies of
weblog and web board posts you write, the main part of a memo, the extended
info in the listings and the long descriptions you can add to pictures you
upload.
ICcode is specific to Informed Consent, but is intentionally
very similar to phpBB's "BBcode" and Snitz Forum's
"Forum Code", and all three are indirectly related to HTML.
Paragraphs
To start a new paragraph, just leave a blank line. Other than that, you
don't need to worry about where you start new lines since it won't make any
difference:
| This text | produces this output |
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this text will be
on one line
A new paragraph |
this text will be on one line A new paragraph |
Smileys
To get a smiley in your text, just include one of the following
combinations of punctuation:
 :) or :-) |
 :( or :-( |
 ;) or ;-) |
 :-p |
 =-o |
 :* or :-* |
 >:o |
 8-) |
 :-D |
 :-$ |
Links to web pages
If you include a "word" starting with "http://" or
"www." it will be interpreted as a hyperlink URL to another web
page. For example: www.google.com
You can also make links using something like:
[url=http://www.google.com/]Google Search Engine[/url]
which will produce a link with your choice of text displayed to your readers
rather than the URL address itself:
Google Search Engine
Links to profile pages
You can put a link to someone's profile page with @ followed by their
profile name, rather like you can on Twitter. For example:
This example uses the @Admin
profile page
Quoting
You can indicate that you're quoting text using quotation marks
(") as you would in ordinary text. However, you can also make a block
of quoted text really stand out using [quote] and [/quote]
For example:
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[quote=Admin]
some text
[/quote]
some reply |
some reply
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If you don't want to give the original poster's name, just use [quote] rather
than [quote=NAME]. If you do give a profile name, it will be used to make a link
to their profile page.
Bold
You can make bold text by surrounding words or phrases in [b] and [/b]. For
example, "Google has a [b]huge[/b] database" will produce
"Google has a huge database"
Headings
You can make a subheading within your text by starting a paragraph with
[heading] and writing the heading as the rest of the paragraph.
The heading must not include any other ICcode commands. For example:
| This text | produces this output |
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The previous paragraph of words in the
text that you've written goes here.
[heading]A subheading
The next paragraph of words in the text
that you've written goes here. |
The previous paragraph of words in the text that you've
written goes here.
A subheading
The next paragraph of words in the text that you've
written goes here. |
Item lists
You can make an itemised list within your text by starting paragraphs with
[item] and writing the item as the rest of the paragraph. For example:
| This text | produces this output |
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The previous paragraph of words in the
text that you've written goes here.
[item]First item
[item]Second item
The next paragraph of words in the text
that you've written goes here. |
The previous paragraph of words in the text that you've
written goes here.
The next paragraph of words in the text that you've
written goes here. |
Pictures
IC lets you upload pictures, using the Manage Pictures page in Your
Settings. The pictures you've uploaded can be seen by anyone if they follow
the Pictures link from your profile page. However, it's also possible to
embed thumbnail versions of those pictures in text you write using ICcode.
To do this, simply put [picture=NNNNN] where NNNNN is the ID number of your
picture. You can find this out by looking at the full size version of your
picture when you're signed-in to IC: the correct [picture=NNNNN] code appears
after the picture and any description you've given.
For example, you can see the full size page for Admin's smiley face
by clicking on it: when Admin looks
at that page, Admin also sees [picture=112046] (since it's one of
Admin's own pictures.)
If Admin included [picture=112046] in some ICcode text, you would
see a thumbnail like the one here.
If you do this before the picture is approved, you will see the message
"Not yet approved" until the picture is approved or rejected. If
you give the wrong number, or try to embed a picture which has been rejected
or that you have deleted, you will see the message "No such
picture!"
You can choose the size of the picture by adding small, medium
or large immediately before the final ], to get an 80, 300 or
600 pixel image. For example, [picture=112046 medium].
Links to Encyclopervia articles
You can make links using something like:
[about=Bondage]tying people up[/about]
which will produce a link to the Encyclopervia
article with more information:
tying people up
Future additions
We may add more special commands using
[ and ] in the future, so we advise
you not to use [ and ] yourself except as part of the
commands explained on this page.
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