Bold and Italics
You can make italic text or make text bold by encasing the applicable sections of your text with either the [b] [/b] or [i] [/i] tags.

Hello, [b]Peter[/b]
Hello, [i]Paul[/i]
Hello, [b][i]Mary[/i][/b]

Quotations
To quote or cite text, perform the following:
[quote]Quoted_Text_Goes_Here[/quote]
[quote=Person_Quoted]Quoted_Texts_Here[/quote].

URL Hyperlinking
To add a hyperlink to your message, just encase the link as shown in the following example.

[url]http://www.shinyuniverse.com[/url]
[url=http://www.shiny.com]Shiny Universe[/url]

Email Links
To add a hyperlinked email address within your message.

[email]info@shinyuniverse.com[/email]
[email=info@shinyuniverse.com]Email Shiny Universe [/email]


Images
To add a graphic within your post, just encase the URL of the graphic image as shown in the following example.

[img]http://www.shinuniverse.com/avatar.gif[/img]


Or you can use the following to format images that'll fit properly in a post and aligned to the left. [blogimg]http://www.shinuniverse.com/someimage.jpg[/blogimg]


Video
To add a YouTube, Google, or Hulu video:

[youtube]YouTube_Video_Code[/youtube]
[googlevideo]Google_Video_Code[/googlevideo]
[hulu]Hulu_Video_Code[/hulu]

Other Userful Tags
[align=left_right_center]Aligned_Texts_Here[/align]