Post by Surge on Jan 30, 2016 20:31:15 GMT -6
Hello there! In this tutorial i'm going to be teaching you how to add those lovely little templates in your character's bios. Not only does it organize the entire sha-bang, but it also looks aesthetically pleasing to readers, or bio stalkers. (You know who you are..) Anywho, let's get started.
Step one:
Find a website that provides bio templates. For the purpose of this tutorial, i'll be using adoxographyv2.boards.net/
Step two:
Make an account on the website. Adoxography is a completely safe platform, and it's easy to navigate.
Step three:
Alright, here is where i'm going to start adding visual aids.
After making an account you'll be brought to the home page, seeing this:
Step four:
Look under, "dumpster diving, huh?" and click templates.
You'll then see this:
Step five:
Under sub-boards click, "Applications"
You will now be looking at the potential bio templates:
Step six:
Find one you like! Just click through those threads until one sparks your fancy. Today we'll be using, "Lost in a Dream", though any of them would work.
After finding a template you enjoy, scroll down until you see it's coding. Usually creators will put it under the initial presentation such as:
Step seven:
Copy the coding, and create a thread on the sanguinem website. Make sure that it is under the biography section!
The empty thread will look like this:
Step eight:
With the template's coding copied, go into the tab labeled, "BBCode" and paste the coding in there. It will only work if it's in BBCode, remember that.
When it's in that tab the template will just look like a mess of numbers and letters:
However! When you click back into the. "Preview", tab you'll see your beautiful template!:
Step nine:
Start filling in the information, and BAM you have a bio!
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Extra tips and tricks!
In many bios you will see places for pictures or gifs. The one I used above had one where the grey box was labeled as 480x250. To fill those boxes with a picture or gif of your character's faceclaim, you'll need to go into the coding and find something along the lines of:
img src="https://placehold.it/480x250" style="max-width:100%;" alt="
These pieces of coding will be different for each template, but they will always start with img, and have a link inserted as so.
All you have to do is simply take that link, which in this case is:
placehold.it/480x250
And replace it with the link to whatever picture you desire.
So for instance, if I wanted to fill that template box with a picture of Brendon Urie, I would go into google images, find an image that would be suitable, simply copy the link, and then do as instructed above.
You must also remember that it must fit the correct size of the box. 480x250, in my case, stands for the size of the image. In order for the picture/gif to fit, I would need to find one that is around 480x250 in height and width.
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Alrighty well there we have it, I hope that I explained everything well.~ If you have any questions or concerns, please comment them and i'll try to reply as fast as I can. See yah' later!
Step one:
Find a website that provides bio templates. For the purpose of this tutorial, i'll be using adoxographyv2.boards.net/
Step two:
Make an account on the website. Adoxography is a completely safe platform, and it's easy to navigate.
Step three:
Alright, here is where i'm going to start adding visual aids.
After making an account you'll be brought to the home page, seeing this:
Step four:
Look under, "dumpster diving, huh?" and click templates.
You'll then see this:
Step five:
Under sub-boards click, "Applications"
You will now be looking at the potential bio templates:
Step six:
Find one you like! Just click through those threads until one sparks your fancy. Today we'll be using, "Lost in a Dream", though any of them would work.
After finding a template you enjoy, scroll down until you see it's coding. Usually creators will put it under the initial presentation such as:
Step seven:
Copy the coding, and create a thread on the sanguinem website. Make sure that it is under the biography section!
The empty thread will look like this:
Step eight:
With the template's coding copied, go into the tab labeled, "BBCode" and paste the coding in there. It will only work if it's in BBCode, remember that.
When it's in that tab the template will just look like a mess of numbers and letters:
However! When you click back into the. "Preview", tab you'll see your beautiful template!:
Step nine:
Start filling in the information, and BAM you have a bio!
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Extra tips and tricks!
In many bios you will see places for pictures or gifs. The one I used above had one where the grey box was labeled as 480x250. To fill those boxes with a picture or gif of your character's faceclaim, you'll need to go into the coding and find something along the lines of:
img src="https://placehold.it/480x250" style="max-width:100%;" alt="
These pieces of coding will be different for each template, but they will always start with img, and have a link inserted as so.
All you have to do is simply take that link, which in this case is:
placehold.it/480x250
And replace it with the link to whatever picture you desire.
So for instance, if I wanted to fill that template box with a picture of Brendon Urie, I would go into google images, find an image that would be suitable, simply copy the link, and then do as instructed above.
You must also remember that it must fit the correct size of the box. 480x250, in my case, stands for the size of the image. In order for the picture/gif to fit, I would need to find one that is around 480x250 in height and width.
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Alrighty well there we have it, I hope that I explained everything well.~ If you have any questions or concerns, please comment them and i'll try to reply as fast as I can. See yah' later!