Help With Posting

[mayakovsky]

Hey guys, computer idiot here! I have a small question regarding posting on this site. I hope someone can help me.

I have a thread in Sports Talk titled "Fantasy Football Anyone?". I was wondering if there was an easy way to clean up my first post. I keep track of scores, standings and other stats on it. It doesn't look too bad but I would like to make it easier to read. Maybe a little more fancy. I am not sure how much I can do with a post but I would like to put in charts which would make things easier to read. Hopefully this is a really stupid question that can be easily answered. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

-mayakovsky

 

[Turner]

Doesn't look too bad.

The only thing I would suggest is putting this tag in when you're doing tables: [FONT=courier new][/FONT] This is a fixed width font, and will make the tables line up nice and neat.

Other than that, it looks fine to me. What you might want to do is click on 'edit post', then do a Copy/Paste to Notepad or another fixed-width editor. You'll still need the font tag above as it won't keep the font when you cut and paste. This will allow you to leave a copy of your first post on your computer, and edit it at will. I sometimes do this with a big post.

 

[Padma]

Instead of using FONT tags, you might be better off using CODE tags.

_________________[COLOR=blue]EAST[/COLOR]__________________________________________ 
PLACE_TEAM/MANAGER                W-L-T   Div/Rec.     Tot Pnts
1 Bunnies of Death(T5)(TimT.E.)   2-0-0    1-0-0       175
1 Nuclear Device(T3)(OFWarrior)   2-0-0    1-0-0       142
2 Fighting Squirrels(T2)(Chris85) 1-1-0    1-1-0       178
3 Tigerwoods(T4)(mardukes)        0-2-0    0-1-0       109
3 Ironclads(T1)(Azale)            0-2-0    0-1-0        88

_________________[COLOR=blue]WEST[/COLOR]__________________________________________ 
PLACE_TEAM/MANAGER                W-L-T   Div/Rec.     Tot Pnts
1 Kraken(T8)(Plexus)              1-1-0    2-0-0       148
1 Shaft's Big Score(T6)(tcjs.)    1-1-0    1-0-0       143
1 Silverfish(T9)(samildanach)     1-1-0    1-0-0       130
1 Zamphyr Redux(T7)(Zamp.)        1-1-0    0-1-0       126
1 Killuminati(T10)(mayakovsky)    1-1-0    0-1-0       117

And I would advise editing the table "off-line" using an editor that supports a fixed width font for ease in aligning columns.

(Just Quote my post to see how I used the CODE tags.)

 

[mayakovsky]

Originally posted by Padma
Instead of using FONT tags, you might be better off using CODE tags.

_________________[COLOR=blue]EAST[/COLOR]__________________________________________ 
PLACE_TEAM/MANAGER                W-L-T   Div/Rec.     Tot Pnts
1 Bunnies of Death(T5)(TimT.E.)   2-0-0    1-0-0       175
1 Nuclear Device(T3)(OFWarrior)   2-0-0    1-0-0       142
2 Fighting Squirrels(T2)(Chris85) 1-1-0    1-1-0       178
3 Tigerwoods(T4)(mardukes)        0-2-0    0-1-0       109
3 Ironclads(T1)(Azale)            0-2-0    0-1-0        88

_________________[COLOR=blue]WEST[/COLOR]__________________________________________ 
PLACE_TEAM/MANAGER                W-L-T   Div/Rec.     Tot Pnts
1 Kraken(T8)(Plexus)              1-1-0    2-0-0       148
1 Shaft's Big Score(T6)(tcjs.)    1-1-0    1-0-0       143
1 Silverfish(T9)(samildanach)     1-1-0    1-0-0       130
1 Zamphyr Redux(T7)(Zamp.)        1-1-0    0-1-0       126
1 Killuminati(T10)(mayakovsky)    1-1-0    0-1-0       117

And I would advise editing the table "off-line" using an editor that supports a fixed width font for ease in aligning columns.

(Just Quote my post to see how I used the CODE tags.)

Thanks alot Padma! That looks a lot better.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

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[Lefty Scaevola]

"I was wondering if there was an easy way to clean up my first post. I keep track of scores, standings and other stats on it. It doesn't look too bad but I would like to make it easier to read."As padma suggest, save the post in a word prossesor or other progam off line, edit it there, and repalce the post using the edit function.

 

[mayakovsky]

Thanks for all your help Padma and Turner! It took me a couple of hours but I finally got it to look right.

Sorry for posting in wrong forum. You are more than welcome to delete this now. Thanks.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Don't worry about it - might be helpful knowledge for others as well.