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[TUT] Using HTML in your Profile. by Posighdun May 23, 2015 at 7:05 AM UTC



Awesome Profile Guide By Sesspee


Introduction

So i decided a while ago i would make a guide that teaches people how to make an epic profile. I cannot simply put every single html trick in here all at once, every day from now this tutorial will be updated with new tricks and tips. Please note you can use these tricks in your forum posts and thread structures to, they aren't just for your profile.

Bootstrap

What is bootstrap? Bootstrap is basically a framework for websites to use rather then to just be plain and boring. Since the release of bootstrap 3, bootstrap became responsive. What does this mean? Well it pretty much means you can view the website on any type of device. Its much more in depth then that but if you are interested you can read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design. If you want to know more about bootstrap visit their site, http://getbootstrap.com/.

Please note it is expected that you have a little bit of an idea on HTML if this tutorial is to make any sense to you.

Buttons

We will start off with buttons because they are one of the best features of bootstrap, in my opinion.

Your Average Button

<a class="btn">Title</a>

Your normal button can be manipulated to make some cool looking buttons that can do a range of things. By manipulating the class and adding attributes we can make the normal button look a bit better.


Button Addable Attributes Description Class=""
Default Zilch Standard boring Buttont btn
URL href="Insert URL" Allows a link to be in a button and when clicked will take the user to the designated link. btn
Active Zilch Allows a link to be in a button and when clicked will take the user to the designated link. btn active
Button 1 Button 2 Zilch Allows two buttons to be joined together in a group. btn-group
Large Zilch Makes the button large. btn-large
Small Zilch Makes the button small. btn-small
Block Zilch Makes the button a long block. btn-block
Disabled disabled="disabled" Makes the button disabled, you cannot interact with it. btn

Buttons can also have "theme's" or styled classes to make the button more colourful.

Button class="" Colour
Default btn Gray
Primary btn btn-primary Blue
Info btn btn-info Light Blue
Success btn btn-success Green
Warning btn btn-warning Orange/Yellow
Danger btn btn-danger Red
Inverse btn btn-inverse Black

As i mentioned above in the introduction, i will keep adding more stuff to the guide as its just to much to cover if i do it all at once. I will be frequently updating the guide and i am open to suggestions. Next up i will cover how to use Icons and how to incorporate columns so that everything is aligned.

Please also note that sometimes elements may not work in the forums but work when you apply them to your profile.

Icons

For Icons Avicus uses Font Awesome. http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/3.2.1/. Icons can be incorporated in both your profile and in your posts. You can manipulate their size, incorporate them into other elements such as buttons and you can do a lot more.


For a full list of all icons go to, http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/3.2.1/icons/.


This is the most basic icon.

<i class="icon-comment-alt"></i>

Size Manipulation

Icon class="" Size
icon-large Largest
icon-2x Twice the size.
icon-3x Three times the size.
icon-4x Four times the size.

Angle Manipulation

Icon class="" Angle
icon-rotate-90 90 Degrees
icon-rotate-180 180 Degrees
icon-rotate-270 270 Degrees
icon-flip-horizontal Horizontal
icon-flip-vertical Vertical

Labels

Labels can be used in your profile and do look quite nice. I personally have no clue how i would use them but each is to their own.

Label
This is the most basic Label.

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Themed Labels

Label class="" Colour
Primary Label class="label label-primary" Primary/Blue
Success Label class="label label-success" Success/Green
Info Label class="label label-info" Info/Light Blue
Warning Label class="label label-warning" Warning/Orange
Danger Label class="label label-danger" Danger/Red

If you want to have a label with any colours other than the ones above then just insert a style tag right next to the class tag like so,


style="background-color: #COLOURCODE;"
.

For a reliable list of html colours go to http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp .

Personal Colour Label

faht May 23, 2015 at 7:05 AM UTC

Awesome guide ;))

Posighdun May 23, 2015 at 7:05 AM UTC

Update*
- Added basics to icons.

resepignev May 23, 2015 at 7:05 AM UTC

Really goood guide!!
Thanks!

Eteh May 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM UTC

Thanks for the guide! Might try this out! Hope it gets stickied :D

Fuseh May 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM UTC

Good job! By the way nice name. :p

RightSide May 23, 2015 at 8:05 AM UTC

Ok cool guide.

Atdit May 23, 2015 at 9:05 AM UTC

Nice work, just one problem, you have to insert an url like https://avicus.net, not only Avicus.net. Because it will think, it's an folder on the webserver "https://avicus.net/forums/Avicus.net"

Posighdun May 23, 2015 at 1:05 PM UTC

Nice work, just one problem, you have to insert an url like https://avicus.net, not only Avicus.net. Because it will think, it's an folder on the webserver "https://avicus.net/forums/Avicus.net"
Thanks, i totally forgot about that xD