Some Things to Know About Writing an Article

We would like to keep this website as professional as possible. That being said, there are a few things worth mentioning before you go about creating an article of your own.

When writing your World of Warcraft article, you will need to know some basic HTML. Most people already know that HTML is a tag-based language that forms the look of the webpage. It is not all that complicated, and if you don't know anything about HTML at all, don't let that keep you from adding an article to the site. You will find out in the next few paragraphs that HTML is actually really simple, and all that you need to know can be learned in just five minutes.

It is very possible to create an article without using any HTML at all, as our script automatically converts your new lines into paragraphs, which usually needs to be done through special HTML code. So here's what you do need to know:

1. <b> and </b>: Placing text between those two tags will make your text bold. This is useful for emphasizing a part of your article, or for providing headings for subsections of it. For example:

   <b>This is bold text.</b> will appear as This is bold text.

   Just remember to close your bold tag or your entire article will be bold, beginning from where you opened the tag.

2. <i> and </i>: This tag is very similar to the bold tag; it is the italicize tag. Text between these two tags will become italicized. For example:

   <i>This text is italic.</i> will appear as This text is italic.

   Again, make sure you remember to close your tags. Also, it is worth mentioning that you can combine your tags and make your text both bold and italic.

3. Much like the list of items you are currently reading, you can also create lists with your HTML. Lists come in two types; ordered and unordered. The list you are currently reading is an ordered list. The items are labeled as "1, 2, 3, etc...".

   Lists are a bit tougher. Here is the standard layout:

   <ul>
   <li>This is an item in my list.</li>
   <li>This is another item in my list.</li>
   </ul>

   The above code will appear to the viewer as:

   • This is an item in my list.
   • This is another item in my list.

   Simply replacing the <ul> (which stands for unordered list), with an <ol> (ordered list), will produce the following:

   1. This is an item in my list.
   2. This is another item in my list.

Now that you've gotten a small taste of what HTML can do for your article, we encourage you to go ahead and start creating some original content for us. If you wish to learn even more about HTML, a simple Google search will give you tons of results for HTML tutorials.