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Submission Guidelines Nobody panic. This is not going to be one of those stick to the topic, don't use rude words, and never take the Lord's name in vain type things. For fuck's sake, I couldn't stick to those kinds of rules myself for more than half a paragraph, tops. No, this is a guide to making a webmaster's life easier. You'd be doing me a favour if you followed them, but you really shouldn't feel like you have to. Okay, file formats - well, I can use pretty much any reasonable file format, but the best are either plain text (.txt) or HTML (.htm or .html). Word's fine, but if you have a different version of word to me, things can get messy. Microsoft products are like that. If you're sending by email (which for obvious reasons, everyone is), it's much, much better to add your rant as an attachment to the message than to just paste is into the body of the message. If you do the latter, it tends to produce lots of unnecessary carriage returns (to be exact, <br> tags, which is a line break) into your rant, and I then have to go and delete them all. If you want to send me HTML, you just need to do basic text formatting. Plain text is actually the easiest option for me, but if you want to use links, bold text or italics, you probably want to use HTML. Quick & Dirty HTML Guide Right, start every paragraph with a paragraph tag - <p>. HTML ignores the whitespace you type, so you need to put it in with tags. Normally, you'd have to close an HTML tag as well - in this case it would be </p> - and it doesn't matter if you do, but if you don't, the browser just assumes it's closed when it comes across the next <p> tag. Links are done using the <a> tag. This one's also useful on the web board, which seems to exist mainly for the purpose of propogating links. So, a link to Slashdot , for example, would go like this: <a href="http://www.slashdot.org">Slashdot</a>. Notice that you do have to close this tag with </a>, and this server really does need you to start your links from the http part (otherwise it assumes it's an internal site link, and bad things happen). If you want to put an email address in, that's just another kind of link. The format is: <a href="mailto: email address">some text</a>. Bold text is done using the <b>some text</b> tag, and italics with <i>some text</i>. There's a whole bunch more to HTML, but you don't really need to know it. I don't remember much else, myself. If anyone cares enough to write or send a link to a good HTML guide, I'll stick it up here. If you're worried about whether or not you got your HTML right, just save it to a file with a .html extension, and then double click the file to open it in your web browser. Easy. Images On a vaguely related subject, if you have any images you need included with your articles, just send them as attachments, too. If you want to put the image into your HTML, the tag is <img src="images/your file name here">. If you were wondering, the images/ bit is because I keep all of the images in a seperate directory. Where to Send The submissions address for mutopia is mutopia@gmx.co.uk. You'll see it in the contact section on the left of every page. It's the button labelled mutopia. Any questions or suggestions can go there or to me.
--Hewligan
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