For this article, I'm going to keep it to a very basic layout so that there's no clashing code. Sorry for those who anticipate nice looking articles - but the series of articles I'm going to be doing will help you do the same thing as the few of us who uses any type of code in our comments or our blog articles. I'm going to show you some very basic things today as to how to actually change your font, font background, and some boarders. Boarders are a bit more complicated, depending on how elaborate you want to get with them - but giving you the basics should at least help you learn how to modify the code to suit your own needs.

Changing your Font Colour

This is the easiest thing one can do to show a little creativity or add spunk to their comment. On your blog though, you can use the WYSIWYG (W.hat Y.ou S.ee I.s W.hat Y.ou G.et) editor (it makes things easier altogether). However, for the time being, you cannot do this with your comments - unless you use 'code' (or scripting, as I see it). So here's the most basic of way to change your font colour/s:

<FONT COLOR="purple">What you want to say here</span>

And it'll change your font colour to purple, pretty

A topic that comes up in every game and every era of MMOGs is the neverending supply of Hackers and their onslaught against the game(s) that we hold so dear to us. These are the people who seem to make our gaming experiences that much more problematic and difficult to endure. But how do they seperate the community even more so than ourselves? If the "legit" players of the community weren't problematic enough, what about those who exploit the system that runs and maintains our most cherished games? Our adversities are actually our fellow players, and the types that jump up in levels or kill us in two attacks at level 1 make things much more complicated than they should be. Jealousy runs through our veins because we see these people out level us in the most immoral kind of ways.

Common Memory Editor

These hackers end up using memory and/or packet editors to manipulate the client that we, the normal players, have been using for ages in ways that are completely illogical. Everything from gravity modifications to damage modifiers are found in the most under-played games on the Internet. Even when you least expect it, that silly little Flash-based game you play when you're bor

Throughout times, we've experienced the worse of the worse. As players, we've suffered from terrible incidents that resulted in us losing our characters, items, or even our account due to another player's desire to obtain what you have. Not only that, when was the last time you've gone into a Player Versus Player server or room without being called a 'noob' for the most unreasonable thing the person could come up with? It's come to my attention that gamers are no longer the 'passive' gamers they used to be; instead, they're trained and then normally stolen off of the person who worked so hard for it. This isn't always the case, but these times in MMO history are darker than any other. I've seen articles resembling "Was <year> the worse/best year for MMOGs?" popping up; and to my dismay, they don't seem to have any background information about how MMOs used to be.

The time before we all gave up hope..

Needless to say it wasn't always like this. There were times before all of the hype of being 'the best character' existed. Once upon a time, there were players who only wanted to enjoy the embrace of a good game with a bunch of like-minded players who enj

So I decided to see if I could get ahold of a Nexon Korea account, as they're the current publisher for Elsword (a side-scrolling Cel-Shaded MMOG). Luck has it, a friend of mine passed one over so I could try this game out. If you've been following my reviews or articles, you'll notice that I've also taken a hankering for another game (with the same type of genre classification) called "Grand Chase". Incidentally, they share the same parent (developer). Kog has been developing both Elsword and Grand Chase for some time now; except Elsword is newer and is currently undergoing Closed-Beta Testing. For whatever reason, Elsword seems like a near-exact clone of Grand Chase - except heavy improvements have been made to further the community and the player's personal experience while gaming.

You may find me comparing Elsword and Grand Chase a fair bit in this 'preview', as they are remarkably alike. Except, they're not alike at all. I say this not to confuse you, but because there's really nothing better out there to explain how I see Elsword. No, to all of the now-avid Grand Chasers, Elsword is not the sequel to Grand Chase. In fact, there are no characters that share the same

Yes, that's right, you saw it first hand.. Guild Wars. It was in June of 2005 when my best friend told me that he was going to buy it for me and demand that I played with him. I was living here in London, England at the time and he was still in the United States (since I originally come from there). He transferred the money for it to me via Western Union and I was on my way to the nearest GAME (video game retailer here in the UK) to pick up my copy. With glee, I found myself skipping down the streets of London like a giddy little schoolgirl... alright, not really, but I felt like I was!

Installation of the game was a breeze, even though it seemed to take ages (it was just my imagination). I heard a fair amount of good things about Guild Wars from looking online when my friend became so demanding that I play it (Hey, a man can only trust the insane ramblings of his best friend for a decade before he starts double-checking the information!). The previews, articles, and reviews that I read for Guild Wars were incredible, very few people had anything nasty to say about it. By the time it was installed, I knew what type of profession I wanted (or at least a close idea to it) and was read