Reply Instructions
You may use some basic BB-Code tags in your posts. HTML-code will not work; it will show up as written.
You can use following BB-Code tags:
[b] [/b] - strong text
[u] [/u] - underlinded text
[i] [/i] - italics text
[url][/url] - inserts a link
[img][/img] - inserts an image
[quote][/quote] - surrounds a quote
[font=*] [/font] - uses font *
[color=*] [/color] - uses colour *
You can use all tags simply by surrounding the text to be formatted with the tags, for instance: [b]strong[/b] shows up as strong.
The [url] tag can be used in two ways.
[url]http://mb.eternityproject.net[/url]
shows up as:
http://mb.eternityproject.net.
[url=http://http://mb.eternityproject.net]mBoars website[/url]
shows up as:
mBoars website.
By surrounding a link that points to an image with [img] tags, the image will show up in your message.
The image will be linked to the original image automatically. It will also be resized if it exceeds
200 x 200 px. For instance
[img]http://www.google.fi/images/logo_sm.gif[/img]
shows up as :
Use of [quote]-tags
Clickin the quote icon in the top right corner of every message will produce a following kind of a text in the reply box at the bottom of the page:
[quote=2434] Contents of the message to be quoted [/quote], where the number after quote is the ID of the post to be quoted. When used like this, as a result you will see a quote with a link to the original post, for instance:
Some Guy wrote:
hey! This works!
You can also use [quote] -tag without the id.
For instance, [quote=johnny]Hmm... dunno if this works...[/quote], shows up as:
johnny wrote:
Hmm... dunno if this works...
So without a link to the original message.
Use of [font]-tags
If you wish to produce text in some other font than the default, you can use [font] tag for this.
For instance, text with Times New Roman -font can be produced like this:
[font=times new roman]This text is rather difficult to read[/font] shows up as:
This text is rather difficult to read
Emoticons
If you have enabled the use of emoticons in your Control Panel, certain text emoticons will be parsed as images automatically.
These emoticons are in use:
:) => 
:( => 
:D => 
:o => 
:P => 
:/ => 
Emoticons are to be written with no spaces between the letters and separated from other words, so that they can be parsed automatically.
Use of [color]-tags
With [color]-tag you can produce coloured text.
You can use either the hex-values of colours, or their English (en-US) names.
[font=00CC00]greenish[/font] shows up as: greenish
[font=pink]pinkish[/font] shows up as: pinkish
Note, that not all colour names are supported by browsers, so it is always better to use the hex values, if it is known.
Search instructions
To find messages or threads from the forums, you may do a search for multiple search words. To narrow down your search, you can use the following operators among your search words:
+
A plus -sign in front of a word makes the word compulsory,
i.e the word must be among the results.
-
A minus -sign negates a word,
i.e the word cannot be found among the results.
( )
You can group operators and words with parentheses.
" "
Surrounding phrases with quotes, you make the search literal, i.e
the results must contain the words in the order and form as written.
*
Star marks a wildcard. It will search for any words that begin
with the part that precedes the star.
Typing all search words separated with spaces and with no operators will search for any results containing from one to all search words.
Cookies
These forums use cookies to save certain information of you during your session. This information is for instance your user name and ID. If you wish to use all forum features, such as logging in, your browser must be enabled to accept cookies. Also some Personal Firewall programs may prevent cookies from being saved on your computer. If you encounter problems with logging in, you may have to check your firewall settings.
Session cookies contain no personal or sensitive information, such as your password. These cookies will also be deleted automatically as you close the browser window or log out of the forums.
Keep me logged in
In your Control Panel, you may set to Keep me logged in. Doing this will result you being already logged in when you enter the forums the next time. You will also be remembered even though you would close your browser.
This is achieved only if you do not click "Log out" link. Logging out will clear all forum cookies. To stay logged in, all you need to do is to enable the setting and close your browser.
The cookie that keeps you logged in might be used to retrieve your password. Thus it is not recommended to stay logged in on a computer that is in public or shared use.
