Nathan Bransford - The Forums

Hello All-

I have been trying to offer helpful suggestions but am having difficulty formatting my responses. I've looked in FAQ, but can't find an answer.

Several of you like Quill, Shadow, and kenpochic are good about providing feedback that's formatted in a way that's easy to read. I can't figure out how to do this. How do I put my answers in color, for example? When I try to change font color, it just puts some funky <<color>> things.

Do I need to do this in word and then copy it into my reply?

Thanks

There are some html "tags" buttons right above where you enter your text in your post. To change color, you select the text you want to have a different color, then click the "font colour" button and pick a color. Same goes for quoting, bolding, italics etc.

Hope that helps!

It would probably be less confusing if you type in the text you want to mark in a different color and then select the color you want it in. When you're typing within your post all you are going to see is the weird "color" language. Those are the tags that let the website know you want that text to appear in a different color. You won't actually see the different color on your screen until you submit your post.

If you're still worried that you haven't done it right, you can always hit the "preview" button and check it out first.

Awesome guys. Thanks for your help.

bcomet-

If the image is online you click on the Img button above the posting window. Then paste the link between the first Img and the /IMG

Like so:

Game 6! Game 6! Revenge! It will never die!

Thanks Nathan.
But what do you do with an image from your computer so that the file name doesn't appear or does it have to?

bcomet wrote:Thanks Nathan.
But what do you do with an image from your computer so that the file name doesn't appear or does it have to?

You'd have to upload it to the web first via a service like photobucket or Flickr.

How do you enter a "Password Protected" area?

bcomet wrote:How do you enter a "Password Protected" area?

You enter the password, which is in the forum description.

Just checking on a forum tech function here:

It used to be, if I was reading and wanted to add a comment/reply to a thread, and I wasn't already logged in, that I just hit the reply button and the forum automatically sent me to log-in and then directly back to the thread I was on.

Now, if the above happens, after I log-in, I have to go back through the Index to the area and reopen the thread to get back to commenting/replying.

Is there a malfunction or has that previous (handy) function been dropped?

Thanks for clarifying.

Yeah, unfortunately in the software update to the new version of the Forums there have been some redirect issues like this. I hope phpBB deals with them in an update, but for now I'm not sure there's anything I can do.

I was just informed I had 'exceeded the maximum number of log-in attempts' and had to do a (barely comprehensible) captcha after ONE log-in attempt!

J. T. SHEA wrote:I was just informed I had 'exceeded the maximum number of log-in attempts' and had to do a (barely comprehensible) captcha after ONE log-in attempt!

Yeah, ugh. Part of phpBB's (wildly ineffective) spam countermeasures.