If you want to post text hyperlinks to websites outside the forum
1. Press the icon button under the italics button, you should get "url" "/url" in square brackets "[ ]" (the first is the "open" bracket the second is the "closed" bracket)
2. Copy the url of the website you wish to link to
3. Inside the first square bracket, put and equal sign next to the "url" then paste the website url next to that without putting any spaces in. It should look like this: <open bracket>url=www.google.com<closed bracket><open bracket>/url<closed bracket>
4. Put some text between the first closed bracket and the second open bracket so that it looks like this: "]This is a link to the Google homepage["
5. All together, that will become
This is a link to the Google Home pageIf you want to post text hyperlinks to other pages in the forum:
1. go to that message and press the "quote" link. (But don't press "Save", you're just getting link info!)
2. The code for the quote will look something like this:
quote author=Timeless Bob link=topic=155674.msg6750703#msg6750703 date=14532894713. Remove the first part up to "link=" and the "date#", so that you're left with something that looks like this:
topic=155674.msg6750703#msg67507034. Add "
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?" to the front of that snippet, so that now you have something that looks like this:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=155674.msg6750703#msg6750703 5. Now you have the url link for the text hyperlink, follow the same procedure you would for posting text links to a url off of the forum.
If you want to size a picture for the screen:
1. Get the url for the picture (posted on a free site like Imgur or DeviantArt)
2. press the image button (right below the "bold" button)
3. You should get "img" "/img" in square brackets
4. Add " width=(number of pixels)" to the "img" so that it looks like this: <open bracket>img width=600<closed bracket>
5. Now you have a picture 600 pixels wide
The rest just uses the formatting already provided in the forum. Happy posting!