Hey all! This is my experience in learning to code on here. I figured it could be helpful to new players/technologically challenged people such as myself if they want to learn to code. (: I'll try to break everything down in a super simple manner!! The site can do most of this for you which is nice, but it can't do everything! Even the stuff it can do, such as links, pokemon icons, bold/italic text, etc., you still have to know the basics of it.

Before I begin, you can find a more extensive (and still fairly simple) guide to coding here. This is where I got this information!

Codes are case sensitive !! For the image and links, I used all caps just to highlight where the links and/or text go !! It absolutely matters what order codes are in, though it's pretty self explanatory. Ex, if you use a different color for text on a hidebox panel, you have to go in the order of 1. hidebox code, 2. whatever text code, and then reverse the order. Any time you pile codes on top of one another, you must properly reverse the order that you put them in in order for it to work :> Every open code uses / in order to close it.

HEADERS + CENTER

There are 3 types of headers that I know of. h1, h2, and h3 going from largest to smallest. They look like this:

h1

h2

h3

The code is super simple, [h1]text here[/h1], [h2]text here[/h2], and [h3]text here[/h3] Headers automatically get centered, which is pretty nice. To center text the code is also very simple. Use [center]text here[/center]

FOR HIDEBOX:

[hide=HIDEBOX TITLE] HIDEBOX CONTENTS [/hide] **I put an extra space between "example" and the hidebox and accordion codes to make it look a little cleaner (: Example: There are two spaces before each a-section [accordion] [a-section=TITLE 1]CONTENTS 1[/a-section] [a-section=TITLE 2]CONTENTS 2[/a-section] [a-section=TITLE 3]CONTENTS 3[/a-section] [a-section=TITLE 4]CONTENTS 4[/a-section] [/accordion] example: Whoooo, this is everything I learned today. If you read this and want clarity or something more in depth, check out the post I linked! (: There's some seriously great information in there. This post/thread is mainly for super beginners such as myself. I'm very picky choosy on what I want to learn, so the stuff here is really only stuff that I wanted to use on my profile here soon. Okay, that's all for now ^^

Update 1. I don't believe I mentioned it in my previous post, and though self explanatory, spelling absolutely matters. I spent about 30 minutes trying to put the code in for "unknown y forme," into the need section in my about me. I couldn't figure out the issue since "I spelled forme correctly" and saw no issue haha. If something doesn't work, keep trying. Double check the spelling of everything, even if you're 100% confident you spelled something correctly. I'm now aware that there is no pokemon called "unknown." If you get frustrated, take a step back. Take a little breather, it's no big deal. Mistakes happen and we learn by fixing them! (: Sometimes it takes a minute (or 30) to find the mistake that you made, and sometimes it really does help to look away for a minute and then come back. I recently found a thread of free templates for different codes, if I find it again I'll link it here for reference. The code I have on my page is free to use, but I'd like to at least link some other free codes so y'all have options!