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Forums  > General  > Off Topic  > help with forum icons     Display using: Flat View Threaded View   Oldest to newest Newest to oldest Previous Thread :: Next Thread   Author  Thread: help with forum icons  kalniel Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Total Posts: 346 Send PM   help with forum icons Posted: 28 Jul 2004 01:46 PM Utter newbie comment.. but I can't find a help page that tells me what all the various forum icons mean - 'new posts' is obvious, but what are the read pages, stars, blue pages etc? Thanks in advance, Kalniel For every complex problem there is a solution that's simple, neat and wrong. - Henry Louis Mencken  Arathon vives.dyndns.org Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Total Posts: 1885 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 28 Jul 2004 03:01 PM Hi Kalniel :) There isn't at present a help page :/ All of this Website and it's back-end/Database (which is also used in Vives) Is the genius' Quietus's work, I usually only check out the frontpage and the latest posts, so know what I've read and haven't. This usually suits me just fine heh. So as to the -exact- meanings of the Symbols, well, to be honest I'm not sure :/ Anyone else pay attention to these and can shed some light? Cheers - Ara Vives Screenshots!  Dhaak Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Total Posts: 7 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 28 Jul 2004 04:35 PM Well, the icons have their own little tooltip if you leave your mouse over them. But to save people the trouble of figuring out what they all mean... Blue Page - Post that has been read Red Page - Post that has not been read Star - Popular post Lock - Post is locked, no more replies Any of the above with a little pin sticking in it - Post has been stickied, and will remain at the top of the board Think that about covers it. *is still somewhat of a newb and even I figured it out* :P  Quietus Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Total Posts: 803 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 28 Jul 2004 05:15 PM All of this Website and it's back-end/Database (which is also used in Vives) Is the genius' Quietus's work Actually, the forums part of the website it not my work -- I downloaded a 'sample forums' app and added code on top of that. I added stuff like the News list and the Headlines stuff you see on the front page, as well as a ton of things specific to Vives like the dirtnap page, the registraion page and a host of other DM-specific tools. So as far as these colors, I don't know (or think I have ever noticed) what these different colors mean. -Q  kalniel Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Total Posts: 346 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 29 Jul 2004 06:21 AM Well, the icons have their own little tooltip if you leave your mouse over them. Thanks for the guide.. but no tooltips appear for me :( And.. hope this isn't being annoying, but is the quote post button a bit broken - or at least the interpreter for picking up whatever markup language is being used? It inserts < quote > tags but they don't seem to work (have replaced them with italic above). For every complex problem there is a solution that's simple, neat and wrong. - Henry Louis Mencken  Solitaire Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Total Posts: 2220 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 29 Jul 2004 08:06 AM Well, the icons have their own little tooltip if you leave your mouse over them. Thanks for the guide.. but no tooltips appear for me :( And.. hope this isn't being annoying, but is the quote post button a bit broken - or at least the interpreter for picking up whatever markup language is being used? It inserts < quote > tags but they don't seem to work (have replaced them with italic above). hmm odd Quote post works for me? The < quote > indicates the start of the quoted post and < /quote > indicates the end. You can type these in yourself if you wish cheers Jane - Solitaire, Wizard - Ilyana Fiirhaart, High Priestess of Naruth  kalniel Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Total Posts: 346 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 29 Jul 2004 08:09 AM hmm maybe it's my broswer then - you quoted but the text isn't formatted any different - I can't see where the quote ends on mine as it's just the same as the reply text. Sorry if it's just a local problem then. For every complex problem there is a solution that's simple, neat and wrong. - Henry Louis Mencken  Sirac Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Total Posts: 2510 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 29 Jul 2004 08:14 AM Must be a local problem, as Sol's quote and actual post definitely come up different colours. Cheers, Sean 'The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.' - Richard Bach, Illusions.  kalniel Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Total Posts: 346 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 29 Jul 2004 08:36 AM Ok Thanks, does that mean I'm the only one not using the extremely vulnerable IE at the moment? I'm on firefox. For every complex problem there is a solution that's simple, neat and wrong. - Henry Louis Mencken  Quietus Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Total Posts: 803 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 29 Jul 2004 09:06 AM Ok Thanks, does that mean I'm the only one not using the extremely vulnerable IE at the moment? I'm on firefox. Yeah, you're right. FireFox doesn't like < span style='color = olive' >. I'll fix it later today/tonight. -Q  pdwalker Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Total Posts: 5692 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 29 Jul 2004 09:08 AM The website uses IE specific functionality. For those not using IE, you will not see the colors that appear when you quote posts, or see any embedded images. - Paul Purpose in life: finding better ways of allowing players to kill themselves. Repeatedly. -- "...Cause he mixes it with love And makes the world taste good." -- <@James42> Lawful good isn't in your vocabulary, it's on your menu.  Sai Barris Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Total Posts: 127 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 29 Jul 2004 02:14 PM but, the forums do come up looking *fairly* normal in Safari. -Sai Sai Barris, Scamp-at-Large Cynda LeRange, Reporter, Port Royale Parson Droim Raine, Preacha o da Word o Swiftfoot  Quietus Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Total Posts: 803 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 29 Jul 2004 08:16 PM Ok Thanks, does that mean I'm the only one not using the extremely vulnerable IE at the moment? I'm on firefox. Yeah, you're right. FireFox doesn't like < span style='color = olive' >. I'll fix it later today/tonight. -Q For those of you FireFox users, the quoting system should now be working properly/fixed. -Q  Quietus Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Total Posts: 803 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 29 Jul 2004 08:16 PM Ok Thanks, does that mean I'm the only one not using the extremely vulnerable IE at the moment? I'm on firefox. Yeah, you're right. FireFox doesn't like < span style='color = olive' >. I'll fix it later today/tonight. -Q For those of you FireFox users, the quoting system should now be working properly/fixed. -Q Meaning, you should see lots of colors in these recent posts. -Q  Calmeir Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Total Posts: 320 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 30 Jul 2004 02:17 AM Ok Thanks, does that mean I'm the only one not using the extremely vulnerable IE at the moment? I'm on firefox. Yeah, you're right. FireFox doesn't like < span style='color = olive' >. I'll fix it later today/tonight. -Q For those of you FireFox users, the quoting system should now be working properly/fixed. -Q Meaning, you should see lots of colors in these recent posts. -Q How about Mozilla? I usually just add the italics anyway for quotes.. but color wouldn't be bad too. EDIT: Oooooo... purdy colors ;)  kalniel Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Total Posts: 346 Send PM   Re: help with forum icons Posted: 30 Jul 2004 06:22 AM Ok Thanks, does that mean I'm the only one not using the extremely vulnerable IE at the moment? I'm on firefox. Yeah, you're right. FireFox doesn't like < span style='color = olive' >. I'll fix it later today/tonight. -Q For those of you FireFox users, the quoting system should now be working properly/fixed. -Q Meaning, you should see lots of colors in these recent posts. -Q How about Mozilla? I usually just add the italics anyway for quotes.. but color wouldn't be bad too. EDIT: Oooooo... purdy colors ;) Wooooo *applauds* For every complex problem there is a solution that's simple, neat and wrong. - Henry Louis Mencken Previous Thread :: Next Thread  Page 1 of 1   Forums  > General  > Off Topic  > help with forum icons