Post by tonyesquivel on Feb 11, 2008 20:29:34 GMT -6
Im not really sure what its stands for. Could be
Ultimate Bulletin Board(most likely)
Universal Bulletin Board
Universal Boxy Brackets
Ok so basically Ubb is HTML just more basic and used on mainly Forums
You can use UBB Code even if HTML is not enabled for the forum you are using.
Ok well this forum has tags already, so you dont have to add it your self. So i will explain to you how to use and how to use some that are not included.
ok first one up is Bold! The image looks like this
you click on it and it adds these
all you do is type the text that you want bold b etween the b's and brackets. like this.
would result in:
Hey Alex, nice scan line tutorial
Next up is
. When clicked on it will add these
Would result in:
Hey Alex, nice scan line tutorial
Basically most tags work like that!
Ok now for some that are not here that ppl might need!
Image as a hyperlink:
the code for this is
After URL= you put the URL of where you want to direct the person who clicks on it. Say if you want it to take you to myspace you would put URL=http://www.myspace.com.
after to show as my image link. Well to get its direct link, right click on it and hit properties. The direct link will end in something like gif. jpg. png. or something similar. if your useing mozilla its much easier just right click and select "copy image location" and it copys the image's direct link to your clip board, so all you have to do is paste it where ever you want it.
ok now that you have its direct link you will post it after img like this
EX: would be
Which will result in:
notice that when clicked on, my image will take you to whatever is in URL=. Which on mine happens to be a link to my Myspace!
another example:
which will result in
and when clicked on will take you to yahoo.com
Ultimate Bulletin Board(most likely)
Universal Bulletin Board
Universal Boxy Brackets
Ok so basically Ubb is HTML just more basic and used on mainly Forums
You can use UBB Code even if HTML is not enabled for the forum you are using.
Ok well this forum has tags already, so you dont have to add it your self. So i will explain to you how to use and how to use some that are not included.
ok first one up is Bold! The image looks like this
you click on it and it adds these [b][/b]. all you do is type the text that you want bold b etween the b's and brackets. like this.
[b]Hey Alex[/b], nice scan line tutorialwould result in:
Hey Alex, nice scan line tutorial
Next up is
. When clicked on it will add these [i][/i] and any text put in between that will come out looking italic. [i]Hey Alex[/i], nice scan line tutorialWould result in:
Hey Alex, nice scan line tutorial
Basically most tags work like that!
Ok now for some that are not here that ppl might need!
Image as a hyperlink:
the code for this is
[url=][img][/img][/url]
After URL= you put the URL of where you want to direct the person who clicks on it. Say if you want it to take you to myspace you would put URL=http://www.myspace.com.
after
[img] you put the direct link to the image you want to show. Say i want this to show as my image link. Well to get its direct link, right click on it and hit properties. The direct link will end in something like gif. jpg. png. or something similar. if your useing mozilla its much easier just right click and select "copy image location" and it copys the image's direct link to your clip board, so all you have to do is paste it where ever you want it.ok now that you have its direct link you will post it after img like this
[img]http://s3.images.proboards.com/bold.gif[/img][/url]EX: would be
[url=http://www.myspace.com/tonyesq][img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/tonyesquivel/tonysig2.jpg[/img][/url]
Which will result in:
notice that when clicked on, my image will take you to whatever is in URL=. Which on mine happens to be a link to my Myspace!
another example:
[url=http://www.yahoo.com][img]http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/ww/beta/y3.gif[/img][/url]
which will result in
and when clicked on will take you to yahoo.com
The n00bs will so need this. 
