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Just to get a grip, Quick Intro is a good choice. For more in-depth discussion, read the Long Intro, which is rather an essay on what is this website and what it wants to accomplish.
But if you have a concrete question or problem about this website then the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) or this help section are the way to go.
| You Type | To Get | ||
| To italicize enclose in underscores (_) | _your text_ | → | your text |
| To embolden enclose in stars (*) | *your text* | → | your text |
| The special meaning of * and _ can be taken away by preceding them with a backslash. | \_your text\_ | → | _your text_ |
| \*your text\* | → | *your text* | |
| To select what initial text should serve as the eemadge title delimit it with a \\\. | title\\\ some text | → | title some text |
| To insert typographic quotes simply use normal quotes (the quoted text will also be automatically italicized). | "your text" | → | “your text” |
| To insert an em dash type --. | tit--tat | → | tit—tat |
Image-links are special links inside the body of an eemadge that take you straight to an image search. They offer a different and strangely compelling way to read an eemadge. Here are some good examples.
You make them by selecting those words in an eemadge for which an image might be appropriate and enclosing them in curly braces, so that when you click on them, you'll be taken to an image search engine with an appropriate query (sounds complicated but isn't).
Image-links come in 2 flavors:
| You Type | To Get | |||
| Google image-links | {sky} | → | sky | Here "sky" is both the visible text and the Google query. Try it! |
| {sky=>sunset} | → | sky | Here "sky" is the visible text and "sunset" is the Google query. Try it! | |
| Flickr image-links | {f:sky} | → | sky | Here "sky" is both the visible text and the Flickr query. Try it! |
| {f:sky=>sunset} | → | sky | Here "sky" is the visible text and "sunset" is the Flickr query. Try it! | |
The edit toolbar sits on top of the edit box and is there to aid you in your eemadge editing. When you have some text selected in the edit box and you click...
Tip: The toolbar has tiny sparks of brightness: If you have a simple Google Images link selected, {something}, and you click advanced (and then provide a search query), you will end up with {something=>search query} instead of {{something}=>search query}. Similar comments apply to Flickr links, as well as for going the other way round (advanced link to simple link).
If you are looking for a singular try a plural, and viceversa. For example, suppose you are looking for a photo of a designer and you use "designer" as your search query; you will get only 1 or 2 pictures of actual designers. If you now try it with "designers" you should now get about 5 or 6 pictures.
The above tip is actually a special case of a more general one: hint to those parts of speech you are interested in. In English the same word can act as an adjective, an adverb, a verb and a noun; this can be a problem when searching with keywords. The above example is an illustration of this; "designer" can be either a noun or an adjective (as in "designer chair"). In this case we want it only to be a noun and that's why the search works much better with "designers", the plural makes the word only a noun.
Or consider the following example, you are looking for an image of a kiss and you use "kiss" as your search query; you will get lots of pictures of the rock band "Kiss" that, honestly, ruin the intended romantic mood. The problem goes away when we use "kissing", hinting towards a verb or an adjective instead of a noun.
Finally, as a rule of thumb Flickr has better and more poetic images (all photos) while Google Images, on the other hand, has a much larger and varied database, and will give you an image on almost every word/phrase you give it (especially those weird, abstract ones, like "logical" or "prime numbers"). However, the only way to really know which is better for a specific query is to test, test, test! For which I recommend Imagxoj.
Search admits only alphanumeric characters. In this case, "alpha" stands for the "american" alphabet (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz) and, among other things, this means that if you search for "björk" there will be no matches even though there are eemadges by björk. This admittedly sucks and will be fixed as soon as I know how.
The search terms don't have to be in order to make a match, but if you are looking for an exact phrase use quotation marks around your search terms.
In addition, you can search with eemadge numbers:
| 55 | matches | eemadge #55 | |
| 55 to 63 | matches | eemadges #55 to #63 | |
| ↑ This last one has synonyms: 55to63, 55-63, 55..63, 55...63 ↑ | |||
| <20 | matches | eemadges #1 to #20 | |
| >250 | matches | eemadges #250 and on | |
| -1 | matches | last eemadge | |
| -5 | matches | the 5th eemadge back to front | |
| >-5 | matches | the last 5 eemadges | |
| 1 to -1 | matches | all eemadges | |
Tags are little labels that you attach to eemadges and can be regarded as loose categories. They are great for meandering through the collection; in fact, they make the related eemadges section work. They are supposed to be really intuitive so I don't think there's need for much explanation. The only thing I will say is that pluralization does matter, elephant is a different tag to elephants. On the other hand, if both tags exist* and you select one of them, the other will always appear as a related tag. For example, selecting elephant will bring up elephants as a related tag if it exists.
| Alt+s | → | Give focus to the search box (alternatively just hitting tab usually works). |
| Alt+R | → | Show random selection of eemadges. |
| Alt+A | → | Add a new eemadge. |
| Alt+U | → | Update the eemadge (if you are currently editing it). |
| Alt+G | → | Give focus to the add-a-tag box. |