Got to give credit to Willing for this - he posted these instructions some time last year I think:
From Willing:
below is that how-to-html post. Be sparing with animated images or befud will get on your case... those interested in the
anti-fibrotic effects of IFN should take note of the recent study madbyron posted above.
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Everything we type into the "post a comment" window actually gets turned into HTML by the medhelp site-management software.
HTML is a a way of describing what a web page should look like. Often it's mostly text, but every once in a while there's
something called a "tag" that tells the browser to display something unusual. Tags usually have the form "<X> text </X>"
where "X" is some tag name.
For example, the "strong" tag is used for emphasis: if you type <strong> emphasize this </strong> in a post, what people see is
emphasize this .
The tag used to display a link to another web page is named with the letter "a" (for anchor). In the opening part of the tag you
insert the URL address.
For example, if you type <a href="
http://www.medhelp.org">this link</a> what people will see is this link.
The tag used to display an image in the midst of your post is named "img". Once again you reference the URL of the image you want
to display, however the format is a bit different. For example if you type <img src="
http://www.medhelp.org/images/logosm.gif">
what people will see is , the bitmap that appears at the top left of the medhelp screen.
A caution : if the fog is piled thick and deep, which it often is for me, it's easy to stumble while typing the tag opening or
closing. Unfortunately, the software that manages this site is not very robust about detecting HTML errors in a post. In particu
lar, if you leave out the closing " while typing in the href="web address" no one else will be able to post to that thread, as I
discovered a while back.. Hope this helps. If you want to see what the actual HTML for a web page you're looking at try "View|
Frame Source" in Netscape or "View|source" in IE.