James
Chairman
Well, you're probably wondering what the heck has happened to the forums? If not, then this thread isn't for you.
Anyway, down to business...
New Features
For the resident geeks out there, this forum is based on PHP and MySQL so should run faster than the old 'Ikonboard' software running on CGI/Perl.
That's it for the new features, I'll leave this thread open for you all to pester me with any bugs/comments you may have, but don't be too harsh, Ed & I have spent a while getting this set up for you lot!
Regards,
James
Anyway, down to business...
New Features
- Enhanced BBCode
Basically, there is a lot more you can do to your posts now, the posting interface has been tweaked to make these options easy to understand, I hope. New BBCode tags include Bullets, numbers and better font modifying.
- New smileys
At the moment, there are just the basic ones, and of course, Slim's smiley has been kept *slim* I will add more later, provided they fit with the forum
- Away feature
Quite a useful feature, this one. In your control panel (In the link on the left), you have an option to go "away" and specify a reason and date you will be back. This is useful if you are going on holiday etc. The away message will be displayed at the bottom of your posts, where your signature is.
- Multiple attachments (official members only)
This allows you to upload more than one image per post, which should abolish those blatant post increases that people do. This leads me on to the next point...
- Attachment positioning (official members only)
You can now choose where in the message you want the attachment to appear. Once you have uploaded the attachment, there will be a button saying insert into post, click it and the relevant code will be put into the post, allowing you to control where the image appears.
- Additional profile fields
Speaks for itself really, at the moment, there is just one allowing you to choose which Micras you have owned
- Buddy list
Self explanatory really...
- Lots of other features that I can't remember right now
So just play with it and discover what else you can do!
For the resident geeks out there, this forum is based on PHP and MySQL so should run faster than the old 'Ikonboard' software running on CGI/Perl.
That's it for the new features, I'll leave this thread open for you all to pester me with any bugs/comments you may have, but don't be too harsh, Ed & I have spent a while getting this set up for you lot!
Regards,
James