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Good question.....

You just make them really. You get your name, decide on a color if you wish, select it from the buttons above when your working on a post. Etc. There's a lot of stuff to know about it and you pick up more and more as you go along. Do you know what all of the buttons above the faces do?

Here's a list of BB tags to use

This buts all the text into a box that shows all the tags and the text.
[color=color name / HEX code][/color] This changed the color of your text
[align=center][/align] Center aligns your text.
[align=right][/align] Right aligns your text
[imgright][/imgright] This puts the picture on the right side of the post and the text to its left.
[imgleft][/imgleft] Puts the picture on the left side of the post and the text on the right.
[imgcenter][/imgcenter] I've never used this so I can't say that it's an actual tag but theoretically it'll center the picture with the text below it xD
[b][/b] Bolds your text
[strike][/strike] Puts a strike through your text.
[i][/i] Italicizes your text.

As a reference, you can look at my codes, but please do not copy them.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=21856653

In the code box, I left out the end tags since I type those in at the end of my post.

Hex codes of colors can be found here
http://cloford.com/resources/colours/500col.htm

Images can be found on Photobucket and deviantART [[ though if you use dA be sure to credit the artist so you cannot be accused of art theft. c: ]]

I don't know where you can find the symbols and such because I use a mac and it comes with all sorts of symbols and such. I think that on Windows you go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, and then Special Characters or something like that.

I hope this helped c: If you need any more help, ask me.

Haha >w< Nullified - imagecenter isn't real ^^ (I've tried it...heh ><; wink

It's not a dumb question at all though ~ And I'd be more than happy to link you to some helpful resources ^^ (Since I looove coding from some reason >_>")

Here's a list of colors & symbols (Though these are colors that you can just write in instead of using #00000 for example.)
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Here's another link which explains the basics of coding, I found it pretty helpful ^^ Good luck! And if you have any questions ~ You can always ask me c:
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Thank you everyone I will check them out