A question of etiquette

Would it violate any standing taboo to post a link to a free online turn based war game at www.onlinefrontlines.com and encourage people to go check it out? It needs a few more active players. I really like the game and would like to see some smart people from this site (LG is full of those) check it out and maybe send me a challenge, but if it will piss people off than I won't mention it...

I don't see any problem and it has been done before.

Commercial posting would be very annoying but a link posted by some enthusiast who wants to share something is ok.

Of, course I cannot speak for the admin, just my 2 cents.

In that case, how do I post a link?

name or actual adress

Online Frontlines

This should do, note that the actual address starts with "http://..." otherwise the browser will guess incorrectly that it is a page on this website you are searching.

Looking at the rules, it seems to be very similar to Battalion. Battalion is a flash game I always liked. You play vs. the computer on about 10 levels. The units, terrain modifiers, which unit is good vs. another etc. seems all to be the same. So those who might be overwhelmed can first play through Battalion.

Robert what's your nickname on the site there? I just registered as Commander Keen ;-)

butyogi - Ill send you a friend request :-)

Thank you Tas and Hjallti, I had always wondered how to do that but never before thought to ask

This is a test

fail... I didnt put http, but i now know how :)

If you want to know the basics about HTML, or any other web-programming language, then w3schools is a good site to get an overview. Here is the link for HTML.

Wow maraca, Commander Keen, that's some game, I aman abandonware enthusiast, lately I havebeen replaying Flight of the Amazon Queen, Eye of the Beholder and Champions of Krynn, you also play some abandonware games?

Every couple of years I try to get darklands running on some machine again. Love that one.

Darklands its awsome, it's a Sid Meier's, for starters :)

Unfortunately I'm a little bit young to know all these games. However I get one here and there, just love the charm of these old games. When I was about 12 I played Commander Keen on my Dads PC and that's how I learned to love those old games. I really started 'gaming' about 1995, still love Fallout 1 and 2 from back then. Other old games I like are Lemmings, the Monkey Island series, Sim City 2000, ...

old Fallout games are so much better then the new one...

Well I am not that old myself, but started playing really soon.

I am studing game development on the universety and besides programming my favorite part of it are board gamesand game history :)

W3Schools isAWESOME!!

and educational...

You can also have a look at w3fools.com

how do you post a picture?

@ypercube: yes, they are right, but I think a little bit too dramatic. w3schools is really good to get an overview as I said, not to become an expert.

@Robert: you post it like this

src is the URL

alt is the text that is displayed if the image can't be displayed. It can be empty but it has to be there.

Links to pictures may change often, so it's better to upload them first to an image hosting site like imageshack.us for example.

Despite any standard saying the alt= is required, I foubt there will ever be a browser in general use that requires it.

I don't think that the alt is required anyway.

Only a test ...

Ingo.

There are still text based browsers... and yes alt is required. I mean you can't post a link to w3fools who's ranting about w3schools and then saying alt isn't required, that's just not consistent.

If you don't believe me, check out the HTML validation of this site

Error Line 33, Column 203: required attribute "ALT" not specified

The attribute given above is required for an element that you've used, but you have omitted it. For instance, in most HTML and XHTML document types the "type" attribute is required on the "script" element and the "alt" attribute is required for the "img" element.

It's a mess anyway, because HTML and XHTML syntax is mixed here.