The Guide to Email Success/Stotheb's tips
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Intro
First off, I'm Stotheb! You might know me as the mastermind who created Wiki Idol!, Total Emails Awards, or (in email relatedness) the 3rd guy to reach 50 WUE emails, and the second to reach 100. Or, you may not know me at all. Nonetheless, I will share some of my tips with you! How lucky you are! In my easy 4 step program, you should be ready to start an email show in no time!
BEFORE YOU START!!
You're gonna need to try out. If you want an email show, go to the tryout page, and follow the rules. If not, you're gonna get a big fat, DELETED! Now, on with the show!
Step 1: The Main Screen
First, you're gonna need a cool link system for your inbox, and other stuff. You'll make a link saying "Email me Here!" er somthing. And the cool thing is, almost everyone emails a new person! So, your inbox will have a good 3 or 4 emails in it. So, now we've got the inbox, now for the misc. stuffs. You gotta make it flashy with scroll button songs, computer names, and even the page titles. But most importantly, there's you're list of emails. Once you get a blockquote it looks really cool! We'll talk about that later!
Step 2: The actuall email
Ok, the adrenaline is pumping, you're going to answer you're FIRST EVER EMAIL! But you're mind is blocked. What to do? Where to go? Adding humor! All these come into play when making an email. First, let's make it neat please!
Part A: Neatness
Look, the email's gotta be neat. What if somone looks at your email and it's like the banned "N00b Wiki Emails?". Somone's either gonna delete it, or say it's wrong and make you fix it. So let's not even think about that. So, on how to make neat emails look at the Transcription Standards to help you out. But here's some basic stuff.
Never make anything remotly close to this.
senor cool guy: hi i'm cool!
strong bad: oh no, it's the cool guy!
strong bad shoots cool guy
Sombody please stop me! This is horrible. So here are how to stop it.
Always bold and capitalize the persons name. A-like so.
'''SENOR COOL GUY:''' blah blah blah blah.
This looks like:
SENOR COOL GUY: blah blah blah blah.
Always punctuate, try to spell right, and use good grammer. If you want to really mispell a word and you meant it, put a [''sic''] there ( [sic] ) A-like so.
'''SENOR COOL GUY:''' Hi! I'm ckool[''sic'']! '''STRONG BAD:''' Don't you mean cool?
Which looks like:
SENOR COOL GUY: Hi! I'm ckool[sic]!
STRONG BAD: Don't you mean cool?
So, now we've got that. The last basic thing, put actions in ''{these thingys}'' So it's like this:
'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{jumping out from behind somthing}'' BOO!
''{Senor cool guy jumps back}''
'''SENOR COOL GUY:''' OH MY GOSH!
It looks like:
STRONG BAD: {jumping out from behind somthing} BOO!
{Senor cool guy jumps back}
SENOR COOL GUY: OH MY GOSH!
So this:
senor cool guy: hi i'm cool!
strong bad: oh no, it's the cool guy!
strong bad shoots cool guy
Can turn into this!:
SENOR COOL GUY: Hi! I'm cool!
STRONG BAD: Oh no! It's the cool guy!
{Strong Bad shoots cool guy}
Part B: Humor
Comeon man! Who wants to read an email like:
STRONG BAD: {reading} Dear Strong Bad, How do you type with boxing golves on? You're pal, Palbert. {typing} Well Palbert, my gloves are my body. Like you'd type with your hands, I type with my gloves. I don't feel like mutilating myself today.
The email was pretty dumb until the bolded part. That had a slight thing of humor. But the real funny email would be:
{the same thing happens as above, starting where we starts typing...}
STRONG BAD: {typing} Well Pally, I seem to notice that you don't take your hands off so your bones can type! Or rather, if you do, you are a really queer guy.
That's the start of a humorous email. Make your email humorus!
Part C: Legnth
Let's face it. Strong Bad Email #1 was crappy. Why? IT WAS SO FREAKING SHORT! Look at the email Rock Opera. It's pretty long. Long emails are cool! Although my first email was of medium length, some first emails are very short! Of course I've had some very tremendously short emails.
Part D: Email making Tips
Plan beforehand on how to make your emails. Plan where to go, what people you're gonna see, and all kinds of other stuff. Remember, you're only limitation is your regergitation! Er, I mean imagination.
Step 3: Misc.
Let's add some flashy stuff! Like a blockquote or a rating system. Here are some things to try!
Part A: Blockquotes
This is MY blockquote:
subject:guideDear Stotheb,
Palbert
Thanks for adding a section to the guide to email success! It really helped me out!
You're pal,
Here's Strong Bad's!
sampleThis is a sample!
From, Senior Sample.
To get a blockquote, request it on this page's talk page. Somone should get on it straight away!
Part B:Rating System
So, what is a rating system? What if some guy walks into your email show and looks at the crappyest email there? He's gonna say "Man, this guy stinks at writing emails!" So, you want to let people know that there are good emails. You have to start with this heading:
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
And this at the end!
|}
Seperate the sections by doing this:
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
|blah
|-
|blah
And add titles by doing this!
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
!Great !! Googily
So let's sample it!
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
!All equal to 5 !! Not equal to 5
|-2+3 || 2-3
|}
Which looks like:
| All equal to 5 | Not equal to 5 |
|---|---|
| 2+3 | 2-3 |
To create headers, do this...
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
!Blah !! Blah
|-
'''Gooood'''
|-
|Blah || Blah
|}
That looks like:
| Blah | Blah |
|---|---|
| Gooood | |
| Blah | Blah |
Now let's actually put this into play! EXAMPLE TIME!
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
!Email Name !! Rating
|-
'''Header'''
|-
|Email Name || Rating
|}
...to...
{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
!Email Name !! Rating
|-
|'''Good'''
|-
|bottem 10 || 10
|-
|'''Bad'''
|-
|some kinda robot || 1
|}
Which looks like:
| Email Name | Rating |
|---|---|
| Good | |
| bottem 10 | 10 |
| Bad | |
| some kinda robot | 1 |
Step 4: Go get em!
You've got some pretty good tips! Now you're ready to start an email show...
(...but just for good measure, try reading an admins tips too, maybe Ekul's or Joshua's...)
