Frequently asked questions and helpfiles.
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Registering
To participate to this forum, you will have to register; guest posting is not allowed. To register, click on the "register" link in the menu at the top of the screen, and fill in the form there.
I hate spam, and I don't send spam, so don't worry about it, your email address is safe. You can choose to hide it from the rest of the members if you are still worried.
After registering, check your email. You will receive an email with your username and a temporary password, which you can use to log in to the forum for the first time. After logging in, you can change the password to something easier to remember.
After the registration is complete, you can login with your username and password and start using the forum. If you are on a public computer, remember to log out before you leave the forums, so other people will not have access to the forum with your account.
Also remember that if you change your email address you will receive an email with a new password (to confirm that your new email address is valid). Feel free to change it back to what it was afterwards.

Help, I forgot my password!
Click on the "forgot password?" link that appears on the login screen and fill in your username there. You will receive an email reminder of your password.

Your profile
Your profile, accessed via the "profile" link in the forum menu, is where you can change your email address and password, and add information about you that will be visible to other forum members. Please don't put anything vulgar in your profile, I will change it back if you do that.
The "name" field is the name that will be displayed on the forums - changing that will not change your username (the one you use to login), just the displayed name.
Everything should be pretty self-explainatory... everything under "additional information" will be displayed to everybody who looks at your profile.
The "be invisible?" checkbox will allow you to browse the forums without showing up as an online user; "hide email from public" does just that, hides your email from being displayed in your profile.
The time preferences will let you set the forums so the time is displayed according to your timezone. Forum time is GMT+1 (because that's what I'm in).
Your signature will be displayed at the bottom of each post you make. It is limited to 600 characters. YaBBCode is allowed in your signature, while HTML isn't. Please don't use images in your signature, they will be removed if you do.

Adding this forum as a sidebar panel
This forum now has the option to add an index of all the boards as a sidebar panel, if you are using either Mozilla or Opera as your browser. (If you're using IE, sorry, can't be done. Get a better browser. :)

Mozilla or Netscape
To add this forum as a sidebar panel to Mozilla or Netscape, simply click here.

Opera
If you're using Opera, clicking here will add this forum to your sidebar panels.

YaBBCode
HTML is allowed on this forum, but if you aren't familiar with it you can use YaBBCode. Here are the tags you can use:

Linking
You can create a link using the URL tag. You can either simply surround the webpage address with the tag:

[url]http://www.wingedspirit.net/[/url]
Or you can make a true hyperlink, like this:
[url=http://www.wingedspirit.net/]Click here to visit wingedspirit.net[/url]
Which will result in this: Click here to visit wingedspirit.net.
If you want to make a link to an email address, use the EMAIL tag, either simply surrounding the email address with the tag, like this:
[email]sailoreagle@hotmail.com[/email]
Or making a true hyperlink, like this:
[email=sailoreagle@hotmail.com]Click here to email me[/email]
Which will result in this: Click here to email me

Text formatting
You can format your text in a variety of styles:

[b]bolds[/b] will produce bold
[i]italics[/i] will produce italics
[u]underline[/u] will produce underline
[s]strikethrough[/s] will produce strikethrough
[sup]superscript[/sup] will produce superscript
[sub]subscript[/sub] will produce subscript
[size=2]text[/size] will produce differently sized text. Size 1 is small, size 2 is normal, size 3 is large, and so on.
[font=Verdana]text[/font] will change the font the text displays in. Please remember that some fonts are difficult to read, and that not everybody has the same fonts installed on their computer; please try to keep to standard fonts.
[color=red]text[/font] will change the text color.
Text formatting codes are not mutually exclusive, which is to say you can combine them in various ways. As an example:
[color=red][b][u]Do you see?[/u][/b][/color]
Will result in this: Do you see?

Text positioning

[left]text[/left], [center]text[/center] and [right]text[/right] will align the text left, center and right, respectively.
[pre]text[/pre] will display the text in a fixed-width font, exactly as you typed it (spaces included). Ideal for posting things like ASCII art.
[code]text[/code] works like the PRE tag, except it surrounds your text with a table and flags it as code. Ideal for posting code snippets.
Quoting text
To mark something as a quote, simply copypaste the text and surround it with QUOTE tags, like this:
[quote]This is quoted text[/quote]
It will be surrounded by a table and flagged as a quote, setting it apart from the rest of the text.

Adding images
To add an image, surround the address of the image with the IMG tag, like this:

[img]http://www.wingedspirit.net/YaBBImages/smiley.gif[/img]
That will display this:
You can also set the height and width of the image in the tag, like this:
[img width=60 height=30]http://www.wingedspirit.net/YaBBImages/smiley.gif[/img]
That will display this:
Please don't post images larger than 640x480. If you do, they will be resized for you or changed to a link.

Lists
You can create bulleted lists in the following way:

[list]
[*]first bulleted item
[*]second bulleted item
[/list]
This produces:
  • first bulleted item
  • second bulleted item

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