As Irene as said if you 'Go Advanced' it means you have more options when you post.
Here is a list of commands that are available and their meaning.
How to use all the commands:
This will switch you between WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) to command based formatting
The "Fonts" area allows you to choose different fonts for your text
The "sizes" area allows you to change font size
allows you to change the font colour
This allows you to add smilies other than the ones in the box to the right of the text area
If the attachments option was enabled, this is how you would upload attachments
This is UNDO - it will reverse your last action.
This is REDO it will undo your undo!
The B, U and I stand for Bold, Underline and Italics - all apply to the text you type
This is to make all of your text "Left Justified" which means it will all line up on the left side of the screen
This will centre your text
This will line all of your text to the right side of the screen
This will allow you to make a numbered list. Select all text for the list and click this button
This will allow you to make a bulleted list - see above for instructions
This will "out dent" your text - select text and click this button
This will INDENT a selected block of text
This allows you to put a link and instead of it showing up as
http://blog.minimins.com, you can add text like "Click Here" and the link will be attached to the text.
MiniMins blogs
This allows you to remove an underlying link from specific text
This allows you to add an click able email address
Click this button to add a picture to your post
Add your text in a quote box
The last 3 buttons are so you can add code, HTML or PHP - none of which are allowed on here
Yes we have a spell check on this site!!
To use it, there's something that looks like a check mark with ABC under it on the top right side corner above the smilies.
Quote:
When you click it for the first time it will ask you to download a plug-in for internet explorer. Download and install the plug-in, its very simple to do.
Once its installed click the Spell Check button again, and it will check your spelling!
So, to re-cap, spell check is in the top right corner of the grey box, with a check mark under the ABC