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OK, How the hell do we underline links with our own witty puns? Buggered if I can find how to.

 

I'm not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean something like this?

 

regards,

Hein

 

Yes. How the hell do you do that?

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It's not magic, but the New Forum Software (NFS) makes it all a bit confusing.

 

First, some explanation of the New Forum Software (NFS) and the way it works, as well as a few definitions.

 

When you write a forum post, you'll use the Post Editor in one way or another. This post editor you'll use either in the box at the bottom of a topic window, or in a new window, after you clicked the button labelled "More Reply Options". The editors are the same for this discussion, but the latter has a few more options and buttons.

 

The most important thing to know is that the Editor now has, due to some dweebs at Invision who ought to be flogged in public, two different editing modes, which I'll call Modern and Classic.

 

Before I go on, let me show a picture of the editor, so that we all know what we're talking about:

 

editor01.jpg

 

In this picture I've circled two buttons, with a call-out and digit '1' and '2', respectively.

 

Use the button labelled '1' (I suppose it's supposed to show a light switch) to switch editing mode in the Editor. Now let me explain those two modes.

 

Modern mode is intended as a kind of "What You See Is What You Get" editor. For many, but by no means all, purposes this will do all you need.

 

Classic mode is a bare bones text editor, where all markup like typeface, URLs and images is showed and edited in BBCode, the bits with the square brackets around them. All markup buttons are disabled.

 

In Modern mode the way to get a nice link is this:

  1. Type the text you want underlined in the link.
  2. Copy the URL you want to link to in your computer's copy/paste buffer
  3. Select the text you want underlined in the editor, like this
     
    editor02.jpg
  4. Click the button labelled '2' in the editor. This produces a window like this:
     
    editor03.jpg
  5. Paste the URL from the copy/paste buffer
  6. Hit the OK button

 

Et voilá.

 

In Classic mode, you'll have to type a BBCode link like:

 

[url="http://www.foo.com"]Bar[/url]

 

where the bit between double speech marks is the URL to which you want to link and the bit between the URL and /URL tags contains the text which you want underlined in the link.

 

Hope this helps.

Hein

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Truly appreciate the explanation MH, but what a fucking palaver!

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The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain. Blimey, it works. Thanks Magere Hein.

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Where has the "Dead of 2012" topic gone? :huh:

Edited by DevonDeathTrip
Found it! The new thread about The Bill seems to have initially veered wildly off topic....

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Where has the "Dead of 2012" topic gone? :huh:

That's what I was going to ask!

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Where has the "Dead of 2012" topic gone? :huh:

 

hi how do i put a gif in my signature? been trying to figure it out .

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hi how do i put a gif in my signature? been trying to figure it out .

 

By using the img and /img tags, with square brackets around them. Interesting enough, you already use them in your .sig, with the joker.gif joker image.

 

What you do now fails, because you use round brackets around the tags.

 

regards,

Hein

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hi how do i put a gif in my signature? been trying to figure it out .

 

By using the img and /img tags, with square brackets around them. Interesting enough, you already use them in your .sig, with the joker.gif joker image.

 

What you do now fails, because you use round brackets around the tags.

 

regards,

Hein

 

I thought maybe it was a gif can we have moving gif's in sig ?

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I thought maybe it was a gif can we have moving gif's in sig ?

 

It's possible. I fixed your .sig to show it.

 

regards,

Hein

 

 

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I thought maybe it was a gif can we have moving gif's in sig ?

 

It's possible. I fixed your .sig to show it.

 

regards,

Hein

 

I hate gif's.

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It's possible. I fixed your .sig to show it.

I hate gif's.

 

So do I, but that wasn't the question. :nerd:

 

regards,

Hein

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It's possible. I fixed your .sig to show it.

I hate gif's.

 

So do I, but that wasn't the question. :nerd:

 

regards,

Hein

 

Not the question, but definitely the point.

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I thought maybe it was a gif can we have moving gif's in sig ?

 

It's possible. I fixed your .sig to show it.

 

regards,

Hein

 

I hate gif's.

 

don't be a gifist think racist but worst :P . There are some good gif's of paul bearer you know .

 

http://wcwgdrwrestling.forumfree.it/?t=51011848

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I thought maybe it was a gif can we have moving gif's in sig ?

 

It's possible. I fixed your .sig to show it.

 

regards,

Hein

 

any chance you could give us the code for future reference and I can learn something new for today :D

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any chance you could give us the code for future reference and I can learn something new for today :D

 

I don't want to encourage more readers to add animated gifs (or for that matter large pictures) to their signatures. So listen very carefully, I shall say this only once…

 

[img=url of the picture]

 

In other words: it's the bog-standard way of putting a picture in BBCode.

 

regards,

Hein

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I don't mind gifs as long as they are not in signatures.

 

I find them very distracting (and tiring on the eyes) especially large ones like the above, but I don't want to opt out of seeing all signatures.

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any chance you could give us the code for future reference and I can learn something new for today :D

 

I don't want to encourage more readers to add animated gifs (or for that matter large pictures) to their signatures. So listen very carefully, I shall say this only once…

 

[img=url of the picture]

 

In other words: it's the bog-standard way of putting a picture in BBCode.

 

regards,

Hein

 

cheers thanks hein.

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I don't mind gifs as long as they are not in signatures.

 

I find them very distracting (and tiring on the eyes) especially large ones like the above, but I don't want to opt out of seeing all signatures.

 

Let it be known that from now on Moderators and Admins are free to remove irritating pictures (animated or not) from members' signatures at their discretion.

 

regards,

Hein

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I don't mind gifs as long as they are not in signatures.

 

I find them very distracting (and tiring on the eyes) especially large ones like the above, but I don't want to opt out of seeing all signatures.

 

Let it be known that from now on Moderators and Admins are free to remove irritating pictures (animated or not) from members' signatures at their discretion.

 

regards,

Hein

Absolutely old chap, they're an eyesore. Would've been shown the door pretty damn sharpish in the Golden Age...

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I don't mind gifs as long as they are not in signatures.

 

I find them very distracting (and tiring on the eyes) especially large ones like the above, but I don't want to opt out of seeing all signatures.

 

Let it be known that from now on Moderators and Admins are free to remove irritating pictures (animated or not) from members' signatures at their discretion.

 

regards,

Hein

 

So why is it still there?

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Why is what still there?

 

Bless you, my child.

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Yes, I'm aware of that. The fact of the matter is that I chose that display name to distinguish it from yours. It originally was too similar for my taste. A more permanent solution can be found when he or she starts posting.

 

regards,

Hein

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I don't seem able to start a new thread...

 

 

 

 

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /forums/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

What am I doing wrong, or alternatively, why isn't the forum allowing me this privilege?

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