Post a Message

Supply an Optional Link and/or Image

Use Graphic Codes

Preview Your Message before posting

Set Preferences for how you want to view the forum

Enable Cookies for maximum flexibility 

You can use HTML in the text of your message. For example, to include multiple images with your message you could include the following. 

<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/imagename1.jpg">
<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/imagename2.jpg">

Post a Message

You'll notice that the forum script remembers your name and email address. 

Type the text of your message. 

Enter an Optional Link URL and Optional Link Title to include a link to your web site. NOTE: you MUST include the Link Title in order for the link to show up in your message.

Enter an Optional Image URL to display a photo with your message. Please note, this URL is for an actual image address, not the address to your web site. In other words, this URL should end in .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, or .png. Most current browsers support these image formats.

If you'd like e-mail notification of responses, please check this box: Checking this box tells the script to notify you ONLY when someone replies to your message.

You can Preview your message to see how it looks, or Post it immediately if you're sure you've entered everything correctly.

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Optional Links

 Here are examples of the format each of these options uses. If you don't follow this format, your link or image will not be displayed in your message.

Optional Link URL: http://www.jackpotauctions.com
This is the web address (URL) for this FAQ page. Note it ends with .html and NOT .jpg.

Optional Link Title: JackpotAuctions.com
This is the title of this web page. If you leave this entry blank, your link will not be displayed.

Optional Image URL: http://www.jackpotauctions.com/jackpotlogo.jpg
This is the web address (URL) of the logo image file used at the top of this page. Note that it ends in .jpg and NOT .html.  

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Preview Before Posting

Click on the Preview Message button to see EXACTLY what your message looks like before you post it. This will ensure that your web site link and/or image as well as your text are displayed as you expect. If you don't see them when you preview your message, check to see that you entered them correctly and make changes as needed.

Click on the Post Message button once you're sure you've entered everything correctly. Once you select Post Message, you won't be able to make changes.

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Graphic Codes

You have the option of using graphic codes in your message. To display one of the following graphics in your post, simply type the corresponding graphic code as part of your message. NOTE: Always be sure to leave a blank space before and after the graphic code.

To Display This		Type This
Smile		*g*
Big Grin		*vbg*
Rolling on the Floor Laughing		*rofl*
Angry		*mad*
Frown		*sad*
Ebay		*eb*
Yahoo		*yh*
Amazon		*az*
Jackpot		*jp*
For Sale		*fs*
For Trade		*ft*
Wanted		*wd*
CC&GTCC		*cc*
Slot Cards		*sc*
USA		*usa*
Euro		*c*
New Release		*nr*
Extra		*ex*
TV		*tv*
Building Fund		*bf*

You can see that your graphic code is entered correctly when you Preview your message.

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Set Preferences

List messages:

You can determine how many messages are displayed by selecting the time period in which messages were posted to the forum. To display messages posted within the last 2 months, check the box next to Posted within the last, then enter a 2 in the text box and select Week(s) from the drop down menu. The default is to list messages posted in the last two weeks.

To only see a list of messages since you lasted visited the forum, check the box next to Posted since your last visit began.

List Style:

A Simple List will display all messages chronologically in the order in which they were posted. 

An Alphabetical List will arrange messages in alphabetical order by their subject lines. 

A Threaded List will arrange the index by threads, with responses indented below their parent messages.

A Compressed List contains links to each thread, rather than to each individual message, producing a shorter index listing.

Display Style:

The Single Message display style will show the text of only a single message at a time, though each message page will contain links from which responses (or other messages in the thread) may then be accessed.

The Guestbook style, if combined with the Alphabetical or Simple List styles, will display the full text of all messages on the index page; otherwise, it will display the full text of all messages in a given thread on a single page.

Sort Order:

Sorting Oldest First will give you a list in which threads (or messages, depending upon your listing preference) are arranged with the oldest at the top of the page and the newest at the bottom. 

Sorting Newest First will, naturally, do the opposite. 

The other two options are relevant only to threaded and compressed listings. 

The Mixed Order arranges primary messages with the newest at the top, thus tending to keep newer threads toward the top of the page, but arranges responses with the newest at the bottom, thus preserving a more "intuitive" threading structure. 

Finally, the UBB Order will arrange threads by the dates of their last responses, rather than by the dates on which they were started; this guarantees that the threads with the newest messages will always be at the very top of the page, but also means that threads will be constantly "reordering" themselves on the index page.

To summarize all this, if you're used to working with forums using Matt Wright's "WWWBoard" script, you'll probably be most comfortable choosing Threaded List, Single Message and Newest First. If you're used to working with forums using "UBB," "EZBoard" or another variation on that same theme, you'll find that choosing Compressed List, Guestbook and UBB Order will provide you with familiar behavior on this forum. And if you're a long-time user of forums utilizing older versions of "WebBBS" with its default settings, you'll probably want to select Threaded List, Single Message and Mixed Order. 

Personal Information:

Once you've created a profile, the script will remember your name and email address. If your profile includes a link to your web site and/or an image, the script remember that also. Or, it remembers the link and image used in your last message. Finally, the script can remember your password. Hopefully you've changed your password to something you can always remember. To change your password, select the Edit Profile link from the index page.

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Cookies

This forum script uses cookies to store information on your computer that can then be read by the script when you visit the forum. The information stored includes your name, email address, password, your last visit, your viewing preferences, and the optional links used when you posted your last information.

In order for the script to store and retrieve this information, you must have cookies enabled on your computer. If cookies are NOT enabled, you can still use the forum. You simply won't benefit from the flexibility of the script or set options for the script to remember unless cookies are enabled.

NOTE: The cookies are used ONLY to store and retrieve information relative to your use of this forum. It does not store or track any other personal information or your Internet use. Furthermore, this information is NOT kept on the server. As soon as you leave this web site, the information is discarded.

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