ANGEL'Z RENTRY TIPS&TRICKS!!!!! WORK IN PROGRESS.

welcome to my page for tips & tricks on making your own rentry!! i love this website and think it's a great and fun way to decorate and show off your personality and interests! these tips will hopefully help you to do that to your fullest potential! here, you'll learn everything from the basics to how to embed images & link embedded images as well as basic markdown language, gain resources for pixels and symbols & online photo cropping, editing and resizing, font generators, and more!

table of contents ¹ basics ² resources ³ basic code misc tips

BASICS in this section, you'll find basic information about rentry as a website, how to claim urls and make a new page, and how to use the editor.

info
rentry describes itself as a markdown pastebin website. markdown is a markup language used to describe how a website looks to design it; similar but not the same to html, essentially a very primitive programming language. a pastebin is a type of website used for publishing plain text.
essentially, you can think of every separate rentry url as its own webpage; pages are not inherently linked to each other. this i think is one of rentry's strengths, where it's very easy to have separate pages for stuff like an about, a byf, interests, etc!!

vocabulary
edit code: this is the code you'll need any time you want to make changes to your rentry page. rentry edit codes are case sensitive.
unicode: symbols you can copy/paste — similar to emoji, but only in black and white.

getting started
on the front page of rentry (rentry.co), you're given a blank box with "custom edit code" and "custom url" in smaller boxes at the bottom. first, it's a good idea to find an open url, which can take a bit. (if you need help finding a url, press here!) after finding an open url, type it into the custom url box. then, type something into the blank box — it can be anything but blank! the edit code box can either be typed in or left blank. if left blank, you'll be given a random edit code. it is a good idea to write this edit code down or save it in a password manager. if you lose it, you'll be screwed when wanting to edit your rentry in the future.
after pressing go, you'll be brought to your page with the url you chose! if you press edit, you'll be brought into the editor.

the editor
welcome to the editor! at the top of the blank box you'll see three tabs: text, preview, and how. text is where you'll be typing your markdown text, preview is where you'll be seeing how your markdown looks, and how gives you some basic markdown tips like how to italicize and bold text. i recommend taking a look through the how tab to learn basic stuff! otherwise, i have ways to edit text further in the page.
bonus tip: the editor will only let you line break twice, and if you copy/paste this ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ specific blank space, you can put more spaces than originally intended in the editor. on rentry, you can only use text to tell the website how you want your page to look - that means there's no buttons to press to bold or italicize text like google docs or quotev journals, and image insertion works a bit differently than those editors do. but no fear! it's pretty simple! i really suggest playing around with the editor to see how things look and how what you type presents on the page.

RESOURCES in this section of the page, you'll find different resources for pixels (decomes, dividers, blinkies, buttons, stamps&more), online photo editing (resizing, cropping, color picking), font generators, and kaomoji&symbol resources.

pixels
some good resources i've found are mikejima.crd, resource.crd, gifs.crd, yokai.crd, pixel.crd, twst.ju.mp, gardenia.ju.mp, graphic.neocities, xyz.crd, wilardo.crd, supplies.ju.mp, watermelon.crd and barok.crd.

online photo editing
for image cropping, i use iloveimg. for image resizing, i use simple image resizer. for color picking, i use image color picker. quick picture tools has lots of different options for quickly editing photos online. ezgif is a great tool for gif making!

font generators
i mainly only use this small text generator that gives you three separate types of tiny text. i also found this text generator which has a ton of options to choose from as well!! messletters is one i've used since the olden days on quotev. if you're looking to add a "creepy" aspect to your page, lingojam has a pretty good zalgotext generator.

kaomoji & symbols
adding cute kaomoji can be a great way to indicate moods or just add something cute to your page! for like 10 years now i've used kaomoji.ru as my main source of kaomoji. for adorable little unicode symbols, i found cutesymbols and emojicombos. for unicode arrows specifically, i like the selection on xahlee. my friend uploaded his personal list of symbols which can be found here!

BASIC CODE in this section, you'll learn basic code like how to insert and link images and how to link words.

inserting an image
inserting an image
— ![img desc](img url)
if you're looking for somewhere to reliably host images, a private discord server is your best bet. whatever is typed into the image description will appear when the image is hovered over — it can be left blank.

inserting a link into an image
— [![img desc](img url)](link url)
in order for the link to work, it has to include the http:// or https:// at the beginning unless it's a link to another rentry page, wherein you only need to type the url to the page.
ex: [![img desc](img url)](rentry)

inserting a link into a word
inserting a link into a word
— [word](link url)
the rules for linking are the same as they are for photos.
bonus tip: you can have a description on links when hovering over them by adding a link description next to the link url. ex: [word](link url "description")

inserting emoji
inserting emoji
— :emoji:
a complete list of markdown emoji codes can be found on this github.

text 101
*italics*
**bold**
***italics and bold***
~\~strikeout~~
-> center <-
-> right-aligned ->
==highlighted==
``red text``
you can find more in the how tab!

MISC TIPS this section has miscellaneous tips that i couldn't justify an entire section for.

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Pub: 27 Jul 2020 15:21 UTC
Edit: 10 Dec 2023 16:03 UTC
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