Tips & Tricks: Pack Ranks

Just a short entry today, but one that's actually useful (yes, I do occasionally post useful content)...

Specifically, this is on pack profiles. People seem to enjoy customizing them endlessly; some packs have additional banners, some change layouts every two days (or so it seems), some use marquees and other HTML tricks to spruce up the profile. And some are just chaotic awesome.

If you've looked around, you may have spotted one or two packs with colored rank names, or ranks in italics, or blinking ranks which annoy the hell out of you. You may have wondered 'how did they do that?' I'm going to explain it to you.

It's done through the language of black magic, also known as HTML. As a warning here, if you don't know how to use HTML, don't even try. You'll just fuck everything up, possibly requiring admin intervention. And nobody wants to waste their time because you couldn't figure out how to close a tag and destroyed your pack control panel (yes, that is possible).

Anyway... Adding formatting to rank names is actually very simple. Just go to Edit Ranks, and put in the desired HTML in the rank name box. Of course, the character limit is going to prevent you from having rainbow colored ranks, but most less complicated things work fairly well.


IMPORTANT: Remember to close your tags! If you leave a tag open, it can and will (well, worst-case scenario) require admin intervention to fix... not to mention make you look like a complete idiot.

Also, it's worth noting that you don't need to put in ending tags - you can only stick in an opening font tag, and it won't change the rest of the text on the page. This saves a bit of space.

As for what exactly you can do... well, be creative. Anything you can fit in the space will work. Just don't overuse blink codes. Everybody hates them.

Also, do not, ever, under any circumstances, name a rank <!--. Just seriously, don't do it. And when you do it anyway, specifically because I told you not to, don't come crying to me. I did tell you not to, after all.

Have fun customizing!