So this is simply a tutorial for the site, this will cover the basic's for the site and show the different buttons, groups, forums, and stats and such! i hope you enjoy it.
My stats::as you might notice that this button is a drop down list that contains 3 different buttons. Halo Reach beta halo 3 and the my account and each of these buttons will let you do these things
Halo Reach Beta: this is all your halo reach Beta stats, and now remember since it is the beta they will change when the retail game comes out and the games are unloading off that but for now this is what you accomplished in the Beta.
Halo 3:: pretty simple, this is your halo 3 stats that you have gotten and or made in the halo 3 matchmaking with kills, headshots, Exp and such like that.
My account:: this takes you to your account that allows you to add signatures, see who has referred you, the primary gamertag your using. which stats people will see when they look at your name, site theme, and to disable post count from groups, and to change your pass word..
Other button when you click my statsCheers:: when you hit this button, this brings up the list of post that have been credited on, it contains the post and the number of credits put on that post.
Post:: these are your post, when you hit this it will bring up the list of all post you have made in all the forms.
groups:
When you click this, it will bring up a list of all the groups on the site that have been created. when you click the groups button this is what it will show you.
1.the logo of the group if they have one
2.the group name
3.a short description if they have one for the group
4.number of members in that group.
When you scroll over it if you are in a group it will become a drop down showing the groups your in, and when there is a new topic in the group it will light up a dark bluish color.
Leaderboards:
Halo Reach:: when you click this it will compare you to any person you want as long as you got the name to put in to the button. This comparison will compare you to all Halo Reach stats.
Halo 3:: This will compare you to other peoples halo 3 stats when you enter the name in to the proper field.
forums:
this is the main forums of the whole entire site, when you scroll over it, it is a drop down list with a list of items to pick from including:
1.Search:: this will allow you to search the forums for a certain thread if it has already been made when you use the key words.
2.forums rank[b]:; when you click this link it will take you to the forums ranking list, it has 2 things on it. the image of the rank and the amount of credits you need to gain that rank.
[b]Halo reach::This forums is meant totally for Halo Reach topics, any other post in this forums are completely forbidden and can and most certainly will be locked and or moved to its proper forums.
Halo 3:: This forums is meant for halo 3 threads and nothing but halo 3, any topics not related to halo 3 are aloud in here even if they are halo reach threads..
General gaming:: this forums is for all videos games not halo related, you can post topics for games in here from being older to newer games.
Off topic::this is for anything thats not gaming, anything thing that can be almost the most random that is not games.
inside the forumstopThis button will take you to the top of the forums, when you are at the bottom, this will jump you right to the top.
Pm::this button will make you Pm the person who you click the button on, a Pm stands for Private message and no one can read it besides you and the person you send it to.
quote:: this button will bring you in to the post screen with the person who you quoted with there writing.
+1 credit:: when some one makes a good post, this is the way to give them credit, this button also adds to your score which when you get enough will give you a forums rank.
blogs::
The blog button will take you to a group of blogs created by members of the site and they include an image of the group, who created it and the name of the group its self.
F.A.Q:
this is pretty simple, it is the Facts and popular questions that they feel will be asked along with the history of the site. it tells when, how, why the site was made, it tells who made it, and other information you might find useful.
Video & art:
This button is a drop down list that contains different items to take you to different parts.. this items are:
Video:This item will take you to a list of videos, montages, Mechinima's and so on and so forth, you can get a video added simply but contacting xorth, but remember only video's of gaming or funny things, no Adult content is permitted.
Broadcasts: Perhaps one of the most important things to streamers, this is a list of people who are broadcasting, while usually only visible when some one starts streaming or you know the url, it is advertised in the shout box of the forums.. when you go to this link it will show a list of broadcasters, and let you pick any 2 streams you wanna watch side by side complete with a shoutbox, and on top of that you can click it and go right to the stream page on JTV
Wallpaperthis is a list of wallpapers made by members of the site, some come in different sizes, and it also has the creators name.[/color]
BBC Coding for forums postSimple enough, the BBC coding makes words and links in to something different=P such as taking http://halocharts.com/sphere.php and turning it in to
this, a clickable link. Some things you don't know is there are many different kinds, and i will be listing most of the common ones, and the italic, you tube, bold, underline, can be found in the links right above the body of your post.
Hyperlink or clickable link - this code makes it go from the url which you have to copy and paste to a clickable link, so instead of having the whole name of the site, just add this and it will show a text you want there. and all you have to do is click it on the forums and if given the right link and address will take you to the site. to do this, simply add this.
[url.=Name.of.site.here]visible text here[/.url]
Example, takes to halospherestrike - mainly what this does is puts a line threw any of your text that you want. so when you say something like "this will be added soon" you can put this and it will strike it out to show it has been done.
[.s]add.text.here[/.s]
this is an examplebold - pretty much what this does is, it takes what ever you put inbetween it and boldens it and makes it poof and appear a little bit bigger and could mean look this is important or something of the sort.
[.b]put text here[./b]
Example of itcolor's - pretty right forward here, when you use this code, it allows you to change the color of the text from the default forums color to any color such as red, green or blue.
[.color=color.here]add.text.here[/.color]
here's an exampleSome colors used are:red, blue, green, orange, yellow, white, black, pink, hotpink, limegreen, dark blue, orange and a few more.
Underline - pretty much like the bold this lets some one know that it is probably important and should be looked at or something that will probably be needed to know.
[.u]add.text.here[/.u]
see here is an example Youtube - this code allows you to place video's right on to the forums given if the uploader has allowed embedding for the video.
[.youtube]the take id number of the video and put here[/youtube.]
italic - i don't really know what to write about this one.
[.i]add text here[/.i]
this is an example of italicsize - this code allows you to change the size of a word or the body of your post by increasing it.
[.size=15]add text here[/.size]
Example*note, you must take out all the period's in order for this to work that i have added, i added them so that you could see the code and it not activate.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Note::Remember to get to anything on this tut it is all located in the navigation bar up on top of the site and get be viewed no matter what page you are on.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It has been updated! as of
updates of 7/19/10
Some of the updates include the following:
1.Removal of the Video's tut between F.A.Q and blogs
2.Removal of hidden links
3.Addition of Video's & arts under F.A.Q
---Full explain of video link
---Fully explained of Broadcasters and how to use
---Fully explained of wallpapers.
updates of 8/30/10
some updates include:
Message forums button being changed to just forums
Added the BBC coding for some of the more popular links that are used
the forums button is now a drop down list.
[color=green]Update list6/26/10 (created)
7/19/10
8/30/10