YPCS service announcements

The BLOG module is a completely new addition to YPCS. It is being developed actively - however, what you can see and read here gives a good summary of its abilities.

Your blog contains entries and subtitles. Let's see how that works.

Under the "Administration" menu you can create subtitles - these are the menus of your blog, so that you can categorise your entries. Each entry is attached chronologically to a subtitle. Entries are edited in single text mode, with the addition that there are some control characters that can create specific effects in the displayed text.

You can change the style of some words:
**foo** => foo (bold)
//foo// => foo (italics)
__foo bar__ => foo bar (underlined)

(Please note that you cannot nest control characters, for example you cannot make your text bold and underlined at the same time.)

There are certain more complex control chatacters which we call tags. Typically they are enclodes in square brackets in the form of [ ... ]. If our software encounters them in your input, it will make some specific formattings.

For example:

You can link to another page by using the [link:url] form. The "url" is the hyperlink, containing the URL of the webpate:
[link:http://www.pugscode.org] will create http://www.pugscode.org

You can change the text of the link if you add some text after the url in the link tag separated by a space:
[link:http://www.coolcamels.com Virtual Camels] will create Virtual Camels

You can also use emoticons a.k.a. smilies using the [icon:...] tag:
[icon:lol] =>
[icon:rotfl] =>
[icon:smiley] =>

However, the most interesting feature is the ability to include images from your gallery in the text. You can use the [img:...] for this.
Here is a simple way to insert an image:

The [img:seagull1] tag includes the thumbnail of the image named "seagull1" (see "short id" when uploading an image).
By default, the text that is AFTER this tag will be placed immediately beside the image, creating a paragraph. To end a paragraph, use the [-] tag.


Images can be moved left to the following paragraph (as the default is align-right):

Seagull - Hungary

Just enter [img:seagull2,left] to achieve this effect - that is, place a comma after the image id, and enter "left".

The title displayed is the title you have given when uploading the image. Clicking on the image redirects the user to the "show image" page.


The tag breaks your entry. Use it if you have some long text. A "more »" link will appear to visitors - clicking on that link shows the remaining part of the text. See here (please click on the link):

[more]

Computer programmers will like the followin tag, which creates "syntax highlighted" blocks. Using this, you can nicely put program code in your blog. See this:
[syn:language]Title
...code goes here...
[:syn]

Here is an example in Perl:

[syn:perl]Simple "Hello, World!" in Perl
use strict;

print "Hello, World!";
[:syn]





See more on tags and control characters in the "Help" under the Administration menu.

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