You can use HTML anywhere on Multiply: comments, posts (click on 'Edit HTML' first if it's a blog post) and even in your Page Title. Here are the basic commands, be sure to check the links for more info.

If you don't like to use the codes but you want to use HTML somewhere, you can do this: create a blog entry and change the fonts, colors, etc, then click on 'Edit HTML' to reveal the code so you can copy it and paste wherever you want.

The Very Basic Basics

What You Type	What You Get
<B>Men</B>	Men
<I>Are</I>	Are
<U>from</U>	from
<S>Men are from Mars</S>	Men are from Mars
You can even combine tags (just remember to next each pair of tags)
<B><I><U>Mars Needs Women</U></I></B>	Mars Needs Women
And That’s Not All
<CENTER></CENTER>	Centers text or image.
<A HREF="URL HERE"></a>	Makes whatever text/image it surrounds into a link.
<IMG SRC="IMAGE URL HERE" WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="100" />	Add an image, using optional WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes to control the sizing. Note: IMG code is stand-alone (no separate close tag necessary).
<FONT FACE="verdana" SIZE="6" COLOR="green">Little Green Men</font>	Alter the size, style, and color of text.

Additional HTML Resources

• Hot-linking Images Inside Multiply
• JavaScript Isn't Allowed
  
• W3C
• Webmonkey
• Web Design Group

Even more tips and tutorials about HTML/CSS can be found in the group Multiply.Design. Click on the logo to join the group now!


Source: Friendster.com help page.
(info in public domain).

If you have a question on how to change your theme look and feel, Multiply.Desgin group will help to solve it.

Most people just want a theme with personalized colors and a background. It's very easy to get it using the Custom theme:

1. Click on the Customize My Site link found in your main page or go to settings -> My Site
2. Click on Choose a Theme in the top yellow bar (Image A)
3. Pick Custom Theme (Image B)
4. Choose your background picture using Browse (Image C-1)
5. Pick a color scheme or make your own using the options below (Image C-2)
6. You can Preview or Save it when it's done (Image C-3)

PS1: In the step 4 you must choose a picture in your computer (HardDisk). It will be tiled, so small images won't look good. The recommended image size in general is something around 1024x768 pixels.
PS2: A HTML color table can be found here or here.
PS3: If you later change your Custom CSS, your background pic will be gone. But you can add it back again using the proper code in the body section of your Custom CSS: before you change your Custom CSS, look at your page source code and copy the background tag with the image link, then add it to the body section when you edit the CSS code.


Update1:
After the recent changes, now you can choose the base theme used for customizing the colors: Clean (the new default theme) or Andros (the previous default theme). Also, there are checkboxes to add transparency (no background) to some sections of your page.

JavaScript (they have the script tag in the code) and iframe codes aren't allowed in Multiply for security reasons. Any other code that is simple HTML or Flash, like the ones that use the EMBED or OBJECT command, should work fine. Usually the site give you options for the code: look for the one in simple HTML (no script tags) or one that uses Flash.


As a side note, sometimes when you try to copy and paste excerpts from other web pages to yours, usually blog entries, you may get the message that 'JavaScrit/CSS isn't allowed', and you can't save your post. It happens because some of the page code was also copied and also pasted with the text. To avoid this, first paste the excerpt in a plain-text editor, like Notepad on Win or Smultron on a Mac, and then copy it again and paste on your page. You will get only the text and should be able to save your entry.


PS: JavaScript isn't the same as Java. Java widgets should work too, as they usually use the EMBED and/or OBJECT tag.


Update1:
EMBED codes that have allowscriptaccess won't work anymore (they will be disabled when added to Multiply pages) due to security reasons too. Quote from a Multiply staff member:

• Large pictures may make the column where the Guestbook is in your main page too wide. Either remove the entry or ask the poster to remove the code. Also, you can add this code to your Custom CSS to display a scrollbar when it happens:

          #home_guestbook .replybox { overflow:auto; }

          or, if you don't want it to display any image at all:

          #home_guestbook .replybody img { display: none; }

• How to remove/delete messages from your Guestbook:

            At your main page, you won't see the links to delete comments or edit your own replies in your Guestbook. To do this, you have to go to the Guestbook page. You can get there using one of these ways:
            - at your main page, click on the link below your Guestbook "View All NNN Comments"
            - use this link: http://Your_Username.multiply.com/guestbook (replace Your User_Name with your actual Multiply username)

• Also, you can edit the number of comments displayed at your main page and the access (privacy) level if you click on Customize My Site and then on the Edit link found in the Guestbook box (see the image below).

• You can now completely disable HTML in your Guestbook replies, just edit it in your main page (see the picture below).

• If you can't see your Guestbook and you didn't hide it using the Hide link while your main page is in 'Customization Mode', probably you've set your Homepage to 'Linear View'. Return it to 'Boxes View' to see your Guestbook again:

            http://multiply.com/setup/pages/home

• If you are still experiencing problems about deleting stuff in your Guesbook and your are using Firefox, you can go to its menu and select: View -> Page Style -> No Style (look to a similar option in your browser if you're using another program) to disable CSS in your page so you can use the delete links to remove any offending material. Then you can enable it again.

• Groups normally don't have a Guestbook, but you can display one if you change the Page Layout to Linear instead of Box View for the Home Page. (DEPRECATED: does not work anymore)

• If you try to add HTML code in a comment at someone else's Guestbook that isn't your contact, the HTML will be removed. Of course, the same happens in your Guestbook for people that aren't in your contact list. (DEPRECATED: does not work this way anymore, if you don't want HTML in your Guestbook, disable it completely as explained above)

The Inbox (previously called Message Board or My Multiply) works like this (if you've set Sort By to 'Latest Reply' in its Preferences):

- if you visit a post and later a new comment (reply) is added to it, the post will be moved to the top of the list (most recent ones), so you get notified that it has a new reply. It will continue to be this way as long as you visit the post to see the updates.

- if you don't visit the post, then the entry in your Inbox won't 'go up' in the list, and will eventually go away from the the first page. But if you later visit the post, new replies added to it will again move the entry in your Inbox to the top.


Of course, you can enable Show "Subscribe," "Pin," and "Remove" links for each item in the Inbox preferences:

- Subscribe enables/disables email notifications for that post. It's also useful when you enabled the notification when you replied to a post (i.e. marked the 'Forward replies to your_email' checkbox);
- Pin puts the entry at the top of your Inbox for as long as you want;
- Remove deletes the entry from your Inbox (and further updates to it too, of course). It does not delete the post itself, only the entry in your Inbox.

There are many other options in the preferences so you can configure your Inbox like you want. Try the many views to find the one that you like most.

Also, above the entries, you can see a 'proximity-bar':


so you can choose from 'how distant' in your Network the entries in your Inbox will come from. You can select only posts from your contacts, for example, or enable and disable posts from groups as well. Lastly, you can click on Custom to create a personalized filter to display only selected posts, useful if you want to find a post from a friend, for instance, or retrieve your Personal Messages.

The Inbox is the most important place on Multiply, and it's unique. Take some time to configure it to your needs and it will help you to find the posts you want and also make things much easier and faster to keep updated with new posts. Have fun.


Update1:
After the recent update, the Message Board is now called Inbox, and there is an useful pre-set of custom filters that includes Personal Messages and Subscribed threads.

Feeling envy of the older users that have a Recipe or Market section but you don't? Feel no more... With the Tagged Content boxes you can do almost the same.

How does it work? Simple: it will create a new box in your main page with all the entries you have with a selected tag or tags. For example, if you want to have a Recipes section, create blog entries with the tag 'recipes' and then create a Tagged Content box to group these entries.

From the official Multiply blog:
If you use the "Boxes" homepage layout (as opposed to "Linear"), you can now create new boxes on your homepage that display content based on the tags you've given them.

That's right, in addition to the usual boxes like "Photos" and "Videos," you can now mix and match tags to your heart's content... and display your creations on your Multiply homepage. If you ever wished for a box displaying your latest posts related to, say, business, pirates and trees, this feature makes your wish come true.

To set this up, just click the familiar "Customize Site" link on your homepage, and follow this with the aptly-titled "Add Tagged Content Box" link. You'll get a pop-up that you can use to set the options for your box -- particularly what should be displayed (pick one or more tags), and how it should be displayed (box title, number of entries to display). Once you've created your box, you can manipulate it like any other content type box: drag it around, hide it, edit it... And here's the best part: you can make multiple tag boxes!


If you feel comfortable with HTML and CSS, you can even add the new boxes to the navigation menu. Just follow the instructions found in this entry from the Multiply.Design group (where you can find more info about customizing your page too):

The blog is the most versatile and user-friendly place on Multiply. If you have a recent version of the most common browsers (Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, IE) you should see a toolbar just below the item title that allows you to modify the text style and do other things in your entry. The toolbar looks like this (click to enlarge):



I will explain what the buttons labeled with numbers in the above pic do:

1. You can add a pic to your blog entry. When you click on it, it will display another window where you can choose to import a pic from your computer (upload it), use one from one of your albums (Photos entries) or from somewhere in the Internet:



After that, you should see a box where you can choose the justification: left, center or right. Click on the one you want to use and the image is added to your post.

Tip: if you add an image to the beginning of the entry and align it to the right or to the left, a thumbnail will be displayed in your homepage after you publish the entry if your Blog box is set to 'Summary' view.


2. When you click on the checkbox named 'Edit HTML' you can see the HTML code used in the entry. Then you can fine tune your entry if you want or you can add those widgets from the web, like a slideshow, a movie or even a song player. Sites like YouTube and Slide give an EMBED code that you can use at other places (Multiply does it too: click on the share link found in most posts), and you can add it to your blog entries after you click on 'Edit HTML': just find the spot you want to place it and paste the code.
Another tip: you can compose an blog entry, click on 'Edit HTML', copy the code and then paste it anywhere in Multiply, like in your other entries and replies. Think of it like an HTML editor, where you create your stuff and then get the code to paste where you don't have these handy tools.


3. The paper-clip allows you to add attachments to your blog entry. The file will be listed below the entry for downloading. Great for sharing PDF, PPT, PPS files etc. You can add up to 5 attachments to a blog entry.


The rest of the buttons in the toolbar are self-explanatory, just mouse over them and wait a bit to see what they do, like the icon to the left of the paper-clip is for adding polls to your blogs.


Hope this helps. Happy Multiplying.

It is possible to have quite a lot of HTML in the text you type in multiply, but as HTML is not that easy to learn, I thought I'd tell you how I do it. I use Mozilla Firefox, I am not sure if this works with other browsers. When I have saved a photo in an album I mark with the mouse the thumbnail photo then i right-click the mouse and select "View selection source", and I can see the HTML source, Normally I only want the image and the link that it bring with it so I look for the <A href="..."> <IMG src="..."> </A> part of the html. I then also use the <TABLE> and its associated <TH>, <TR> and <TD> in order to make the layout look nicer. To see how I can make nice entries check out my top ten volcano visits image gallery, where each entry has several links to other photos taken at that location My top 10 volcano visits NewsFlash When posting new photos on multiply it is now no longer possible to right-click them to see the thumbnail and its image link, they have done this by not showing the thumbnail as a thumbnail but rather as the background while the image shown is just a nothing. To make things even more tricky multiply will have all thumbnails of the album in one image. and then using offset in that image to display each thumbnail as if it was only one image. The advantage of this approach is that it will be a bit faster to load as you do not have to load many photos but rather one and then displaying it again and again with different offset. you can still find the URL of this picture by viewing the HTML-source that is made to show the thumbnail, but it is not that easy. on the left you can see how the thumbnail of my album from the Vasa museum looks: http://images.jaaho.multiply.com/photos/album/montage/jaaho/71/1?1205917763&amp;et=qB2ruYwubEOFcDuxhejZNQ

OK, so you've taken the plunge, you've joined Multiply, and now your mailbox is getting flooded with email notifications. How do you stem the tide? It's quite simple, really. First, click on the Settings link at the top of the page. (It doesn't matter where you are in Multiply, that link will always be at the top.) Once you've clicked settings you'll be taken to a page with three main columns. The bottom of the middle column has a section entitled My E-mail Alerts. Click on that.

The first option to concern yourself with is Personal Messages sent to me. Personal messages are those notes that are just between you and one other person. (They can also be for groups of people. But they're not posts that will show up in a group or on someone's home page.) Selecting "none" means that no emails will be sent to alert you of a message. Choosing "new posts" means that you'll be notified of a new personal message, but you won't receive updates by email if the person adds replies. And choosing "new posts and replies" will mean that you get an email to let you know that the message has been instigated and another email every time a reply is added to the discussion.

The second line is for setting whether or not you will get emails about posts by your contacts. Unfortunately you can't change the settings so that you get posts every time your friend "fred" posts but not when "samantha" posts. It's all or nothing.

If you don't want to receive email notices when there are new group posts, then select none for each group you are a member of.

If you think that you will be only an infrequent user of Multiply, I would recommend leaving the "Personal Messages sent to you" line set to receive email notification of new messages sent to you. That way if there's something important that you're missing out on because you haven't signed on to Multiply and someone tries to point it out, the message will get through to you.

One of the last things you can choose to do on this page is receive daily or weekly summaries of posts that you've missed. This is a handy way to make sure that nothing of interest slips past you.