Quick-and-Dirty-HTML-Tutorial
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For the forum.

To make a link: <a href="http://yourlinkhere" target=_blank>Text to display here</a> As you can see, the actual link is in red, what you want the user to see (displayed text) is in blue in my example up there. What you see in green is how you target your link to open a new window rather than opening up in the same window as the forum post you'll probably want to respond to.

To make BOLD text: <b>text to be bold</b> = text to be bold Be careful to remember the </b>, lest you embolden your entire post after it. Always annoying, that.

To make underlined text: <u>text to be underlined</u> = text to be underlined Same drill as bold, strive to remember the </u>.

To make italicized text: <i>text to be italicized</i> = text to be italicized Yet again, don't forget the </i>. I don't think that can be stressed enough.

Combo Time: Should you want to Combine several into some fancy stuff . Simply nest the tags. (tags are <i>, <font>, <b>, etc.) So. For example, to make something bold and underlined, you would simply <b><u>text to be bold and underlined</u></b>, and the same convention holds true for everything else we just covered.

That's probably all anyone will ever need for the forum. Some other fun stuff a newbie might like could be:

To strike out text: <strike>text to be smited</strike> = text to be smited

I made the < and > symbols show up using ASCII characters that generate those symbols when interpreted by a browser. Unless you're planning on doing tutorials, I doubt you need to know how.

I hope firstly that my linebreaks didn't screw up my table when submitted to the forum and make this thing horribly ugly, and secondly I hope this was useful to some people.