Introducing new forum tricks

When you create a new post or a new thread on the forum you will see a "Microsoft Word" style input form for your message. This allows you to enter more interesting text very easily such as:
big bold colourful writing with background colour and also different fonts like this...
Of course this isnt always going to be necessary and what you may find more useful is the ability to

1. make numbered
2. listst like this one

or the ability to make

• bulletpointed lists
• just
• like
• this

or probably even more useful is the ability to insert an image at the click of a button:

Enjoy!

You can even insert a link too or use underline or italitalic font.... just like this...

To insert a link just enter some text, highlight it, and then click the link button and enter the links so for eexample i will write "LambWatch" and make that link to homepage!

*bump*

don't forget that there is more to the forum than just what appears on the homepage and the top of the "chat" page. You can access the forum via community and then forum. Or here is a direct link.

On the forum homepage it shows the two latest active threads for each of the forum categories.

What a wonderful addition to the forum Dan.

This will give a whole new dimension to writing messages.

I haven't quite mastered putting an image in yet but can manage the link:-

lambwatch

River Mersey Webcam

Have fun Lambwatchers.. :O)

Hi Dan

Love the new set out for the forum. Loved the pic of the sheep you posted :)

Any forum users may have noticed a "my details" link at the top of the forum after logging in. Until now this has been an empty page waiting for me to develop it. Well today I have started developing it! So far I have added the ability to add an "avatar".

An avatar is basically a picture that you can use as your "display picture" against all your forum posts. If you use any other forums on the Internet you will know what this is. You will see that the thread view of the forum has also changed to accommodate the new avatars and you can see that I have updated mine!

Anyone who doesn't have an avatar pic specified gets the default "NO PIC" picture. All you need to do to add your avatar picture is find the picture you want and upload it in the "my details" section!

The "My Details" link is at the top of the forum page, near the new thread and post reply links, but here is a shortcut:

MY DETAILS


You can use anything as your avatar, your favourite pet, a pic of yourself, perhaps something frmo the lambwatch gallery.... anything! It's a quick way to visually see who posted a message. If anyone needs any help on saving or finding an avatar (not compulsory of course!) then feel free to email using the comment form on the contact page.

I love this Web site it gets better all the time!!! Thanks Dan!!

Oh Thank goodness...I found it..!!!

...I thought I was chasing shadows ! 

                     I am glad I went looking as I have never checked this out before...

There...ya go...changed the heading:) Karen

Just putting the heading back to Forum tricks..

So how do I enter an image? I am getting nowhere with the highlight your message thing!

Im not with you maria... What do you mean highlight your message? You can use the buttons on the entry thing to highlight text and there is a little image icon too for entering pictures...  Its on the second row of icons, in the middle near the red circle..

Well, I think this might all be beyond me, but I can tell you something amusing - if you click on the icon for image you get an amazing amount of Latin text.  Dan, your knowlegde of Aeneas is prodigious, and your Latin is impeccable!  Ha, ha!

For what I found, see below:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas feugiat consequat diam. Maecenas metus. Vivamus diam purus, cursus a, commodo non, facilisis vitae, nulla. Aenean dictum lacinia tortor. Nunc iaculis, nibh non iaculis aliquam, orci felis euismod neque, sed ornare massa mauris sed velit. Nulla pretium mi et risus. Fusce mi pede, tempor id, cursus ac, ullamcorper nec, enim. Sed tortor. Curabitur molestie. Duis velit augue, condimentum at, ultrices a, luctus ut, orci. Donec pellentesque egestas eros. Integer cursus, augue in cursus faucibus, eros pede bibendum sem, in tempus tellus justo quis ligula. Etiam eget tortor. Vestibulum rutrum, est ut placerat elementum, lectus nisl aliquam velit, tempor aliquam eros nunc nonummy metus. In eros metus, gravida a, gravida sed, lobortis id, turpis. Ut ultrices, ipsum at venenatis fringilla, sem nulla lacinia tellus, eget aliquet turpis mauris non enim. Nam turpis. Suspendisse lacinia. Curabitur ac tortor ut ipsum egestas elementum. Nunc imperdiet gravida mauris.

But I'd rather send you a photo of my six-year-old great-niece with her new puppy (Ruby), so let's see if I can do that.  Well it seem I can only post the link to Facebook, but this might work.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/photo.php?fbid=10150148432578313&set=a.10150148432573313.318345.625953312

*phew* finally  got around to fixing forum avatar pics.

The good news is, forum pics are back... the bad news is, sadly, anyone who previously had an avatar will have to re-upload it again. Sorry folks!

To upload your own avatar, visit "Your Account" and upload your picture there :)

http://www.lambwatch.co.uk/forum-account.htm

Thanks for letting us know Dan,,hope my avatar comes up now..

Thought I might have a change of picture - hope it works

Change of Avatar here too if its worked

well done folks :) Looks like your avatar changes have worked :)

JHello everyone - just a quick note to say the forum is now live and functioning again.