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READ FIRST: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS « Thread Started on Feb 4, 2002, 2:14am »
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ----------------------------------------- Please look for your question here first before posting about a problem you are having.
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Re: READ FIRST: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS « Reply #1 on Mar 2, 2002, 9:06pm »
Colour change of scrollbar
Yes you can change the colour of the scrollbar. Go to this scrollbar generator, and try out a few colors, and they'll give you the code to put into your headers.
To add a background image to your forum, Go to Skins/forum colors select the skin, add the url of the image you would like into the Background Image field.
If you would like to fix the background, ie make the forum float over it, select 'yes' for fixed background in your skins page where you enter your hex colors.
Forum Font Type
To change the font on your forum, go to admin>>admins/forum colors>>modify skin select the skin, click Continue. Change the contents of the "Font" textbox.
remember to use a common font (a default one supplied with your pc is best) if your members haven't got the font you set it to, they will not see it.
Disable News Fader
If you want to disable the news fader from showing on the front page of your forum, follow these steps
Go into your admin panel. Then under the "Customize your forum" section click on "news fader" Look for a check box labeled "Enable news fader" and select "no" to disable it. Click the save changes button.
« Last Edit: Feb 18, 2008, 2:16pm by Patrick [ASE] »
Re: READ FIRST: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS « Reply #2 on Mar 24, 2002, 1:31pm »
Hidden Categories
This is instructions on how to make your forums only visable by members, or even to set up some categories where only some select members can view the boards.
Go into edit member groups in your admin areaIn the additional member groups section, create a new member group, maybe something like 'member'Assign that member group to your members, do this by going into their profile and clicking on modify. Scroll down to where it says position, and in the drop down menu next to it, select the new member group and then save the changes to the profileGo into edit categories, and select the category you want hiddenOn the category edit screen, check the member groups member, and click the edit buttonYou now have a hidden forum, that only you and the member group can see
You will need to keep assigning that member group to all the members that signup if you are using so your board is only visable by members. You will need to assign the name to each member you wish to have access to the category, if you wish to have it so only select members can view it.
Additional Administrators
What will the additional administrators be able to do?
By default, any additional administrators you add will have no powers to use. This will mean that you will need to supply the administrator group with the powers you want them to have. Read below for instructions on how to customise the group. You will be able to supply them with as many of the powers as you wish for them to have, except they will be unable to delete the message board, or have access to the groups section in the admin area. In addition, your admin profile, will not be able to be edited by any of the additional administrators, and your IP, stamped at the bottom of all of your posts, will be hidden.
You can customize what Administrators can do, by going to the section called "member groups" in your admin panel. Then click on "modify group" and select "administrator" from the drop down menu and follow instructions from there.
How do i assign additional Administrators?
You can have additionalAdministrators on your forum. To assign an additional Administrator, follow these instructions:
Go into the users profile Click on modify profile Scroll down to your admin functions in there profile to where you see the drop menu for "member group" Select administrator from that drop down menu and save changes.
Global Moderators
What are Global Moderators?
Global Moderators are the next step up from Moderators. Normally, global moderators will have the moderator funstions in all of the boards on your forum, plus, additional 'lower' admin options, such as 'fix a board', or ban member. By default, any global moderators you add will have no powers to use. This will mean that you will need to supply the global moderator group with the powers you want them to have. Read below for instructions on how to customise the group. You will be able to supply them with as many of the powers as you wish for them to have, except they will be unable to delete the message board, or have access to the groups section in the admin area. In addition, your admin profile, will not be able to be edited by any of the additional administrators, and your IP, stamped at the bottom of all of your posts, will be hidden.
You can customize what Global Moderators can do, by going to the section called "member groups" in your admin panel. Then click on "modify group" and select "global moderator" from the drop down menu and follow instructions from there.
How do i assign a Global Moderator?
You assign Global Mods from inside the profile of the person you want to make a Global Moderator in the same way you assign another admin:
Go into the users profile Click on modify profile Scroll down to your admin functions in there profile to where you see the drop menu for "member group" Select Global moderator from that drop down menu and save changes.
To remove a Global Moderator, simply repeat the above, except choose the blank option, instead of Global Moderator
Moderators
What are Moderators?
Moderators are people who have control over a message forum. By default, any moderators you add will have no powers to use. This will mean that you will need to supply the moderator group with the powers you want them to have. Read below for instructions on how to customise the group. Although You will be able to supply them with as many of the powers as you wish for them to have, except they will be unable to delete the message board, or have access to the groups section in the admin area, the moderator group is usually used for individual boards, and not the forum as a whole, so it is recommended to set them to limited powers, so they only have their options in the boards that they are set to moderate - read more about this below.
* You can customize what Moderators can do, by going to the section called "member groups" in your admin panel. Then click on "modify group" and select "Moderator" from the drop down menu and follow instructions from there.
How do i assign moderators?
Go into users the profile Click on modify profile Scroll down to your admin functions in there profile to where you see the drop menu for "member group" Select Moderator from that drop down menu and save changes.
To assign a moderator to their board, follow these instructions.
In your admin panel under the section called "boards" click on "modify board" and select the board you wish to add 1 or or moderators to. On the edit board screen of the board you want to make someone a moderator of, look for the 4th text box down which should say "moderators" Place the username of the person/persons you want to make a moderator of that board. If it's more than one person, separate the usernames by a comma. (The username is the name the member "registered" with and not there display name.) Click the "modify board" button when down with changes
Your moderators for that board should now be setup.
Since you added your moderators to certain boards you want them to moderate, you can limit there powers to only the boards they are assigned to. There rank of moderator will still say "moderator" but there powers will only work in the boards they assigned to. Follow the instructions below to set up there powers for this.
In your admin panel do to "member groups" section and click on "modify group" Select "moderator" from the drop down menu and for the "limit powers" set that to YES. By doing this, the moderators powers will only work in the boards they assigned to. This will work for the additional administrators and global moderator's. Click on continue and this next page will be where you can edit that staff groups powers. Pay attention when giving out staff powers and only give them what they will need to moderate. More powers can be added as time goes on. To remove moderators, simply do the same, except take the username out and remove the moderator ranks from their profile.
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Sticky Topics
Sticky Topics, sometimes know as 'pinned' topics are topic that remains at the top of a forum. Whereas unsticky threads gradually start to fall down the forum as other threads are getting replied to and other threads are made, sticky threads remain at the top regardless.
How to make a sticky:
Create a thread in the normal way you usually wouldWhen the thread is created, click on the sticky icon in teh bottom left hand side of the thread
How to unsticky a sticky topic:
Simply reclick the sticky icon in the bottom of the topic
« Last Edit: Oct 24, 2008, 4:19pm by Patrick [ASE] »
You can change the border color to the color you would like the border to be.
You can change the 4 outset, to the depth you want, this is currently 4, but you can increase or decrease that value to get the effect you like, you can also choose inset, which will have the inverse effect of what you currently see.
Where it says outset, you can also have inset, where it has the inverse effect.
You can also change the 2px to 1px or 3px etc. This determines how exagerrated the effect is.
You can change the border color to what you want, the four start from how they are listed, i.e. the first numbers will effect the top, the second the right the third the bottom and the last set the left of the table borders
Re: READ FIRST: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS « Reply #5 on Mar 31, 2002, 9:01am »
Hyper Link
<a href="url of link">TEXT</a>
Replace url of link, with the url of the link. You can replace TEXT with what you want the text to say that the people have to click to get to the link.
Hyper Link in new window
<a href="url of link" target="_blank">TEXT</a>
Replace url of link, with the url of the link. You can replace TEXT with what you want the text to say that the people have to click to get to the link.
Image Link
<a href="url of link"><img src="url of image" alt="NAME OF IMAGE" /></a>
If you want to have bold text in italics, or italics underlined etc, just use a combination of the two. However, make sure the that the codes match each other in steps, e.g. <b> matches with </b> and not an </i>
Change the red, for the color you want the glow text to glow and change the 0 for the direction, in degrees, you want it to face., these are the values:
0=top 45=top right 90=right 135=bottom right 180=bottom 225=bottom left 270=left 215=top left
The A's are for all of the links, bar the folder ones, which are at the top left of the main forum, these are designated the .nav's. :link is obviously, the link before you have clicked it :visited, is what the link looks like after you have visited the page it links to(should be kept the same as :link) and :hover is the effect on the link when the cursor is put over it.
Terms
text-decoration: *;
Where the * is, you can use the following: none underline overline line-through blink
font-size: 10px;
This should only be use for the .nav's and you can just increase, or decrease the 10px until you get the size of font you like.
color: *;
Where the * is, put the color you want the font to be.
font-weight: *;
Where the star is, this is the weight of the font, eg, bold. You can use: normal bold lighter bolder
Ok, now you customised the code, put it into all of your headers
Edit the URL OF IMAGE in any of the codes you are going to use from above, by replacing it with the url of your image you want there, eg http://www.myimages.com/images/001.gif . Once you have inserted the url of the image, place the code into your headers
You can change any image on ProBoards that you want with this code, all you have to do is, first change the bold text with the relevent information, and then do the folllowing.
The second part you need to change, is the red text. After that line of red text, this is where you state the proboards images that you wish to change. For each image you want to change, you will need to add this:
Code:
c_imgs[0] = "file name.gif";
where file name.gif is the file name of the image you wish to change to your own. EG, if i want to change this image , you would find the url of the image, which in this case, is http://proboards8.com/boardimages/on.gif , and retrieve the file name, which in this case, is on.gif. So, that
Code:
c_imgs[0] = "file name.gif";
would now become
Code:
c_imgs[0] = "on.gif";
For each image you want to change, you will need to increase the number in the c_imgs[0] part. eg:
Code:
c_imgs[0] = "file name.gif"; c_imgs[1] = "file name.gif"; c_imgs[2] = "file name.gif"; c_imgs[3] = "file name.gif"; and so on....
Now, the images you are changing them to, will need to have the exact same file name as the proboards image. For example, if i changed the on.gif, the file of the image i wanted to change it to, would need to be on.gif too. Also all these images need to be in the same folder, or this will not work.
Re: READ FIRST: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS « Reply #14 on Feb 2, 2003, 9:39am »
Locked Topics
Locked topics, are topics that cannot be replied to by anyone other then the administrators, and Moderators. This is useful for posts where you don't want anyone to reply, and for topics that have gone off-topic, or out of hand.
How to lock a topic:
When inside the topic, click on the lock/unlock icon in the bottom left hand side of the topic
How to unsticky a sticky topic:
Simply reclick the lock/unlock icon in the bottom of the topic
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