Dave, I read your HTML primer for bloggers, but I’m confused because on the sites I add comments, I have to use something called bbcode, not HTML. What is bbcode and how do I use it?

I haven’t seen many weblogs that require BBCode, I have to say, but there are lots of discussion boards that require postings be written in BBCode rather than HTML. The main reason, as far as I can tell, is so there’s some control over people not adding unauthorized HTML sequences (like including pictures from unaffiliated Web sites) because it doesn’t seem that much easier than HTML when you look at the two.

Be that as it may, there are now a lot of different sites that are BBCode enabled, so let’s have a look at how it works…

The basic difference between BBCode and HTML is that while HTML uses < and > to surround tags, BBCode requires that you use [ and ]. Once you realize that, it’s…

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