Feel free to use this page to experiment with the Text Formatting Rules. Just click the "Edit Page" link at the bottom of the page.


Here are two different options for mapping at Jutland, both using the German trackchart when fire was first opened. (The German ones I have are better than their British equivalents.) The first is one where you can zoom by mousing over, and click for a full-scale image. The second uses click to zoom instead. Let me know which one works best.

At 1420 on May 31st, the first British and German scouts, sweeping ahead of their respective battlecruiser forces, ran into each other while investigating a neutral Danish steamer to the southwest of the Skagerrak. Beatty was heading west, followed by Jellicoe, while Hipper lead Scheer north by about 60 miles. At 1428, the British light cruisers Galatea and Phaeton fired the first shots of the greatest sea battle of the first World War.


The Maxi image viewer feature lets you display a small image that, when moused over, zooms in (showing a magnified part of the large version of that image). An example:

If you capitalize the word Maxi in the markup, then the small image is a link to the big one:


A very big image (automatically scaled to fit; click to enlarge):

The same image, but scaled so it takes up less space in the body of the post (it'll still be full-screen when enlarged):

The following image has the %nofocus% style applied, so it doesn't get the click-to-enlarge feature: