Feature Tutorial

kinipelahh showed me this way of featuring in order to make my features even more appealing and organised.

I'll share it with you!

But first of all: What thumb codes are?


thanks to TimberClipse the location of the thumb code can be found! dA made a little change about the location of it, but later they added another way to find it, you just have to scroll down and the codes are there!

Thumb codes makes us be able to display a deviation.
You can use them in journals to feature them!

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FAQ #104: What HTML formatting can we use on DeviantArt? And what is the format for these codes?
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I'm an admin of Through-a-Lens and my duty there is to feature the General Photography Daily Deviations featured by Kaz-D & 3wyl every week.

I collected the thumbs and dropped them into the group blog. But all you may know, there are different "shapes" of thumbs on deviantART. And if you don't organize them, they can look really scattered. So Jen showed me a nice trick.

It's simple. All you have to do is pick the similar thumbs and put them together. I'll show you an example.




It looks a little bit nicer than this:



See? It's simple. Sure, it will take a little longer but it's worth it. Look, how nice it turned out! Smooth and professional.

So thank you kinipelahh for this trick!

But wait!

There is more

You can use different thumb sizes!

All you have to do is add:

:bigthumb000000000: in front on the thumb code.

Lookie!


with normal thumb-coding


and big thumb!

With this, you can make your features a little more interesting and various!