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	Help! I uploaded my story, but my formatting is all mucked up! Well, this can be caused by several things. You used Word to format the HTML. Word does the world's shoddiest job with HTML. No doubt there are bizarre line breaks, styles inserted and tags used tha... Okay, so I shouldn't use Word to save as html; but I want to use bold, italics, strike through, underlines and blockquotes. What do I do? Simple. You can surround the text you want formatted with the codes for the formatting you want. In writing this I've used bolds to highlight any areas that I really want to emphasize, by surround th... Hey, some of my text is missing when I upload -- why? This generally happens when you leave a carrot < in the text somewhere. Carrots ( which look like this < or this > ), are used in coding. When you leave these marks in your text, the code tha... What's with all the question marks instead of punctuation? How do I fix it so people with Firefox can read my story? The problem arises because of Word's insistence on replacing punctuation with special characters. The fic thus displays fine when using Internet Explorer, but as soon as you step away from the great u... When I submit a story I get this message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /stories.php on this server. A 403 error is usually caused by certain forbidden words in the story text. The known ones are curl, lynx, and python. These are all related to the server settings. But, you ask, how did I get them... Why won't the story text file upload work? In order to use the upload file feature, the file must be either .html or .txt. Keep in mind that the formatting required for the site is similar to Livejournal and other blogging systems. You do not ...