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Veterans of this forum, or people who of learned some BBcode, will of most likely learned this skill, so my target audience will be newer members or those who have not learned this, like I was when I acquired this skill several months ago.
Why learn this skill?

• neater posts
• long HTMLs can ruin the formatting of your post
• saves loading time to see where the links lead, as with product links

The mini lesson
lets say you want to help someone who is asking advice on a build. You have reviewed their list and see a product you disagree with, for example lets say RAM.
they have selected something from newegg and you go there as well to pick out some more fitting ram
you have picked out some nice Price to performance gskills for $50 you could post in there thread with something like this:
but that does not look as neat as it could be, with the addition of some basic BBcode, you could have a post that look like this:
This formatting was achieved by using the code ["URL=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098]Gskill PC6400 cas 5 ram[/url"] The red quotation marks are to be removed when actually using this, as they are just here to interrupt execution.

using the code:
["URL=insert the url you wish to use]what you would like the text to read on your post[/url"]
you can apply this to any thing on the web you would like such as:

• bands you like
• product reviews of various products, in this case my earbuds
• even stuff with in the forum, like a good guide

Well this is what i have to offer, thanks for reading this post. My hope this will help the new members of our forum and anyone who would like to neaten up there posts will a little BBcode coding.
Thanks to:
Ictinike
Qwert_uiop
and Chipp
These guys helped a new member out in coding a while ago, that thread is where I got the inspiration to post this How To
as well as Brightemo, who pointed out some corrections
Any feed back and comments would be greatly appreciated as this is my first How To

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avatar by MaKaVeLi
my first how-to: quick lesson in BBCode: hot linking
They can, unless their processors are designed by ninjas, who only CHOOSE to obey the laws of physics when they want to. Ask a ninja, it's true. -voice
Complaining about SLi and 3DMark scores is about as useless here as complaining about the towing capacity of a Ferrari Enzo. -MNiceGuy
Bring her flowers, take her out to a fancy dinner, and then pop the question, "Will you buy me a video card?" -RussianGrimmReaper

brightemo

Just a quick note to say that this is not actually HTML, but in fact BBCode which gets translated into HTML via the Forum Software.

Otherwise nice tutorial.

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thanks for the input

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avatar by MaKaVeLi
my first how-to: quick lesson in BBCode: hot linking
They can, unless their processors are designed by ninjas, who only CHOOSE to obey the laws of physics when they want to. Ask a ninja, it's true. -voice
Complaining about SLi and 3DMark scores is about as useless here as complaining about the towing capacity of a Ferrari Enzo. -MNiceGuy
Bring her flowers, take her out to a fancy dinner, and then pop the question, "Will you buy me a video card?" -RussianGrimmReaper

Pooping^fish

<a href="link here>Text apperance here</a>

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B-80

never closed the reference, lul, you are also wrong, no one here will ever know html

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Pooping^fish

Ughh, sorry but that is correct.
I see I accidently left out a quotation mark, but im assuming you had the comprehension to catch that one.

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bump, have gotten several messages saying this thread has helped people, lets see if it can help anymore.

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avatar by MaKaVeLi
my first how-to: quick lesson in BBCode: hot linking
They can, unless their processors are designed by ninjas, who only CHOOSE to obey the laws of physics when they want to. Ask a ninja, it's true. -voice
Complaining about SLi and 3DMark scores is about as useless here as complaining about the towing capacity of a Ferrari Enzo. -MNiceGuy
Bring her flowers, take her out to a fancy dinner, and then pop the question, "Will you buy me a video card?" -RussianGrimmReaper

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bump for new eyes

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avatar by MaKaVeLi
my first how-to: quick lesson in BBCode: hot linking
They can, unless their processors are designed by ninjas, who only CHOOSE to obey the laws of physics when they want to. Ask a ninja, it's true. -voice
Complaining about SLi and 3DMark scores is about as useless here as complaining about the towing capacity of a Ferrari Enzo. -MNiceGuy
Bring her flowers, take her out to a fancy dinner, and then pop the question, "Will you buy me a video card?" -RussianGrimmReaper

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another bump, occasionally helps people, if it helped you please post to keep it up to get read.

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avatar by MaKaVeLi
my first how-to: quick lesson in BBCode: hot linking
They can, unless their processors are designed by ninjas, who only CHOOSE to obey the laws of physics when they want to. Ask a ninja, it's true. -voice
Complaining about SLi and 3DMark scores is about as useless here as complaining about the towing capacity of a Ferrari Enzo. -MNiceGuy
Bring her flowers, take her out to a fancy dinner, and then pop the question, "Will you buy me a video card?" -RussianGrimmReaper

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bump, so many ugly links in the world

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avatar by MaKaVeLi
my first how-to: quick lesson in BBCode: hot linking
They can, unless their processors are designed by ninjas, who only CHOOSE to obey the laws of physics when they want to. Ask a ninja, it's true. -voice
Complaining about SLi and 3DMark scores is about as useless here as complaining about the towing capacity of a Ferrari Enzo. -MNiceGuy
Bring her flowers, take her out to a fancy dinner, and then pop the question, "Will you buy me a video card?" -RussianGrimmReaper