Special genvibe features

[joatmon]

There's a couple of features here at genvibe that I really likeSearch feature the handiest thing here to find info. Sometimes it's hard to come up with the right thing to search for. The recent searches shows how active the search tool has been for the last couple hours, and if you want to hide what you've been searching for, search for something else, if you're logged in it doesn't remember your prior searches, only the most recent. You can use an asterisk (*) at the end of the word to search for and the search will return any threads that have any words that begin with the letters to the left of the asterisk. So, if you searched for "birt*", it would return both "birth day" and "birthday" If you just searched for "birth", you wouldn't get the threads that only had "birthday" It is a good idea to try to search for something before starting a new thread, because the answer to your quesion may have laready been posted, and continuing the previous thread helps consolidate the information, making it easier for other people to find.Active Threads I use the active threads link ( http://forums.genvibe.com/zero...reads }more than the individual forums. Great to see what people are talking about, what's new in the last 24 hours. see http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=9279Active Users - This link at the top right of each page (next to Search) will show you which users have been active in the past 30 minutes. Each user listed may have done a number of things, but only the most recent action is listed for each active user. If you are really watching to see who is doing what, this function can help. It will show you when people read or edit a post or forum, edit their profile, start new topics, reply to topics. It will also report any new users that have registered in the last 30 minutes. This appears to be the data that the forum software uses to display Online or Offline under a user's avatar in a thread. If you see Online under someone's avatar, then that means that they have been logged in within the last 30 minutes. If it says Offline, that means that the user has not done anything on the forum for the past 30 minutes. If you're really in to it, you can switch back and forth between Active Threads and Active users, and keep really good track of who is doing what right now.Member List Interesting to look in the Member list. Can search for "users" sorted by signup date in descending order to see who's new, or in ascending order to see who's been around the longest. Clicking on an individual member shows their stats. You can also see a members full stats by clicking on their username above their avatar in a thread.Edit Sometimes if I want to test something, like seeing which html tags the forum software tolerates and which ones it rejects, I'll go to an old post and edit it instead of creating a new topic in the testing forum.. lets me figure it out without being visible. My Profile I like being able to set preferences in User Options. I have it set to display "All" threads in a forum, and no inline pictures. The No in line pics used to help with my pitiful dialup connection, but now I have broadband and it's glorious, so I now have it set to display pictures. DELETE If you replied to a topic, and then either wanted to erase it completely for whatever reason, you can edit the post, and then instead of hitting the SAVE button to post the changed version, you can hit the DELETE button, which will delete your post. This doesn't work if it's the first post in a topic. Also, if the post had an attachment, such as an image, then the image gets deleted when you delete the post.Thread Symbols When in a forum, some threads may have little symbols next to the thread title. These symbols do not show up in search results, which includes the active threads list. This forum uses the following symbols: - ATTACHMENT A thread with this symbol has at least one post with a file attachment, some file that a user has uploaded to the forum. - STICKY A thread with this symbol will always be displayed at the top of the forum. Only an admin or moderator can make a thread sticky. It is a way to keep important threads at the top so they are easier to find - POLL A thread with this symbol has a poll, where members can vote only once, and must be logged in to vote. - PICTURE A thread with this symbol has an image in at least one of the the threads, the image is posted in such a way that it will be displayed when the thread is displayed (subject to your user preferences) - LOCK A thread with this symbol can not be posted to. If you view the thread and are logged in, there are no "Reply" buttons () Like STICKY, only an admin or moderator can lock a thread. The Posting Rules in the Vibe Lounge is an example of a locked thread.A thread may have several symbols associated with it. The two most common are ATTACHMENT and IMAGE, then threads with a POLL. Threads with STICKY and LOCK are relatively uncommon.-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Special Bonus Section - Post Composition TipsIn addition to using the bold, italic, underline, url and image functions that there are buttons for in the post creating/edit window, there are some text formatting tricks for this forum's software that can be used to dress up a post, or do some things that are not obvious. Quote When you reply to someone, you can hit the quote button ( ) and their entire post will be included in your reply. This can help people identify exactly what you are replying to, especially in a thread that has several different conversations going on, or if there have been several posts since the one that you want to reply to. When you hit the quote button, the quoted text will have tags around it, like [QUOTE=member]quoted text here[/QUOTE]. (member will be the username of the person that you are replying to) If you want, you can edit that, or delete it, which can be useful if you want to highlight something that wasn't really include in a previous post in the thread. You can also edit the quoted text, perhaps to only quote a small part of the reply, to highlight exactly what you are repllying to. As a quote example, if I put [QUOTE="an incredibly wise person"]You should read your owners manual and also search for previous topics before starting a new one[/QUOTE] in a post, it will look like this:Quote, originally posted by an incredibly wise person »You should read your owners manual and also search for previous topics before starting a new oneShow Syntax A lot of the tags here are the same as or similar to standard HTML tags. However, if you want to explain to someone here how to format their post to get the desired results, when you type in the correct syn
tax the software interprets it, and the other person can't easily see what you typed. The trick (stolen from Nova) is to use a pair of tags to break up the tag that you want to show. For example, the image tags are [IMG]http://url.for.image[/IMG] but to get the [ and ] characters to show up with IMG between them, I actually put a bold/endbold pair of tags after the [ and before the IMG], like [B>>IMG] and [B>>/IMG]. URLs If you want to provide a link to some other web page, you can put the URL between and tags. If you want to provide the URL but have it show up as a more descriptive title, you can use the advanced URL feature of Descriptive title. An example of this would be "Have you tried the Search Feature yet?". it would look like "Have you tried the Search Feature yet?"Bullets Bullets are the black dots like the one over there to the left of the word "Bullets" Create these with the list item tag, LI> A bullet always starts on a new line.Indent You can indent a paragraph by using the UL> tag. To end an indented section, use an "end indent" tag, /UL>. You can indent multiple times by having multiple indent tags, just be sure to use the same number of end indent tags to get back to the left margin.Text Color You can have your text show up in a different color if you want. To make the text red, put it between color tags, which look like this text would look red You can use lots of different colors by their common (english) name, such as blue, red, green, yellow, gray, etc, or if you understand such things, you can use a hexadecimal RGB value, such as #005000, which should be a darker green than you get with using just the word greenWarning: Extensive use of colors can be distracting and it should be used only as required for emphasis, or people will hate youIt is also a good idea to use a color that can be easily read, for example the following line is written in a very bad color to use here, and you will only be able to see it if you "select" the text.Congratulations, you know how to select text in your web browser!Text Size You can use the [size=X] [/size] tags, where X is a single digit number between 0 and 7. size=0 and size=1 give you the normal text size, size=7 is big Manually typing in a bunch of "size" tags can get pretty tedious if you want to do anything involved, but that's ok, because just like color, If you use too much size it can get very annoying and people will hate you. KiNd oF LiKe PeOpLe WhO tYpE lIkE tHiS.However, it CAN be useful to emphasize a partiular word in a sentence-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-updated 3/29/2004-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-What are your favorite genvibe features? Any tips you wish other folks knew about? Any secret genvibe tips you want to share?

[NSimkins]

quote:Has anyone ever gotten the Help to work?The current system does not have the help subsystem installed. Help topics can be added manually but that would take some time.I'm waiting on word about an upgrade to the forum software (to 2.0.6) coming up soon. I'm hoping this issue will be addressed once it is upgraded. No time frame on the upgrade yet, however.Nice post, by the way!

[VibeSalsa]

The SEARCH button seems to be more evident ( bold and underlined) . I think it's a today's new feature... BTW, it's a lot better this way.

[rasermon]

I still think a button would be more attracting like this one.

[ArcsVibe]

Hi!Can a live chat also be in the works for the next upgrade?

[meathead333]

quote:Hi!Can a live chat also be in the works for the next upgrade?thatd be cool, if it attracted enough people to all be one at once

[ArcsVibe]

Do you think it would attract people to this site if that was possible?

[AKLGT]

that would be a lot of fun. i'd just have to get dsl or cable modem instead of this crappy (removed) dial up!

[ArcsVibe]

Is it expensive in your area? I pay around 35$CAN a month for high speed cable.

[NSimkins]

quote:The SEARCH button seems to be more evidentJust did a little fine tuning there to help out.quote:I still think a button would be more attracting like this one.After the forum upgrade, I'll look into the navigation links in depth.quote:Can a live chat also be in the works for the next upgrade?That's been discussed before but it doesn't look like something that will be here anytime soon. Check out this thread:http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=1481We're constantly looking for suggestions on the site. You can post them in the Suggestions for GenVibe forum. We always take them into consideration, and if we don't act on them quickly, we always keep them jotted down for the future.

[joatmon]

Quote »Help topics can be added manually but that would take some time.I'm sure you have many better things to do with your time, no worries, glad it's not just me.

[NSimkins]

Quote, originally posted by NSimkins »The current system does not have the help subsystem installed. Help topics can be added manually but that would take some time.joatmon, I manually added some help topics, so all the Help buttons on the site should at least bring up a general Help topic for that function. Check them out.To access all the topics, click here:http://forums.genvibe.com/zerohelpSuggestions for Help and modifications are appreciated. If you want to start another thread for this purpose, that would be fine.The FAQ/Announcements section will be implemented separately soon.

[AKLGT]

hey, this is the first time i actually looked at this thread. i always wondered how you got color. thanks.

[ragingfish]

Fantastic post joatmon!Got lots of neat little tricks I didn't know prior!

[Stang2Vibe]

Quote, originally posted by ArcsVibe »Is it expensive in your area? I pay around 35$CAN a month for high speed cable.You are very lucky, then. Mine costs a little over $45 USD per month plus taxes. And that is with a discount applied because my cable internet and cable TV come from the same supplier. This is the absolute cheapest I could find high speed service in my area. I couldn't take dial-up anymore. Dial-up previously cost me $14.99 USD per month.

[ragingfish]

Our cable bill, including internet, and BASIC cable, is well over $80 a month. It's highway robbery, but dial-up was far too unreliable, slow, and just flat out IRRITATING!

[joatmon]

Thanks for the help topics. Nice to have the buttons do something.Are the help topics limited to basic text, or can you put text formatting and image tags in there as well?

[AKLGT]

joat, what are the tags for bold?

[joatmon]

There is a button for bold, when you click on it it puts in the post, and you put what you want bolded between them, like bold text would look like bold text. I am used to HTML which uses instead of [], and I don't use the buttons, just type B>bold text/B> to get bold textItalics are italics or I>italics/I> both give you italicsi don't use underline much because it looks like a link instead of just being underlined

[joatmon]

you can create an list with automatic numbers using the ordered List and List item tags.This is useful if you want to have a long numbered list, but don't want to have to worry about the actual numbers if you edit the list to move stuff around or add/delete items in the list. it will automatically number the items for you. The ordered list tags are OL> and /OL>Exampleentering in the following in a postOL>LI>here is an itemLI>here is another itemLI>here is a thirdLI>that should be enough items/OL>will look like this:here is an itemhere is another itemhere is a thirdthat should be enough itemsif you wanted to add a new second item , just add in LI>new second item in the right spot and you gethere is an itemnew second itemhere is another itemhere is a thirdthat should be enough itemsso now the fourth item really should be moved up one, which is easy to cut and paste it into the right spot without having to mess with the line numbers to get here is an itemnew second itemhere is a thirdhere is another itemthat should be enough items

[AKLGT]

there are numerous requests from new and old members on how to post pics and attach files. joat, can you or someone else put together something nice to help them out? thanks.

[joatmon]

Quote, originally posted by trdvibe »there are numerous requests from new and old members on how to post pics and attach files. joat, can you or someone else put together something nice to help them out? thanks.You know how to do it, you could have written something up, this thread was supposed to be something anyone could contribute to.Basically when you create a new topic or reply to a topic, there is a space under the large text box that is labelled File Attachment. If you want, you can enter the full path and file name of the file that you want to upload in the box, or you can hit the Browse button and it will pop up a file selection tool. You then use that tool to navigate around your computer's disk to find the file you want to upload. When you find it, either click on the file to select it and then hit "Open" or just double click on the file, and the file selection tool will close out and the fulll path and file name of the file you selected will be put in the file attachment text area. When you then hit the Post button, the file you selected will be uploaded along with the text you entered into the big text entry box, and wll show up at the bottom of your post.You do not get the option to upload a file attachment if you use the Quick Reply option .If you want to show an image in line with your post, then use the [IMG] and [/IMG] tags, which you can either type in or hit the IMAGE button ( ) Once you get the [IMG][/IMG] tags, put the URL to the image you want to include between the two tags. For example, the genvibe logo at the top is located at http://www.genvibe.com/images/nav/genvibelogo3.gif If I put that URL between the two image tags, like [IMG]http://www.genvibe.com/images/nav/genvibelogo3.gif[/img] it will cause that image to show up in the post, like this: If you upload an image as an attachment to a post, you can then edit the post and insert the IMG into the post using the URL of the uploaded image the same way you can if the image is somewhere else on the internet. For example, I attached an image to this post, and it created a link at the bottom of this post to the uploaded image of http://forums.genvibe.com/zerofile/5760/blindcow.jpg when I edited the post to put that link between the [IMG] and [/IMG] tags, like [IMG]http://forums.genvibe.com/zerofile/5760/blindcow.jpg [/IMG], it causes the uploaded image to show up in the post:NOTE: DeLaMano and I just found out today that the forum software doesn't like image URLs that begin with https, it tries to autocorrect them, and instead breaks them, so don't try to put https links inside IMG tags

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[AKLGT]

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »You know how to do it, you could have written something up, this thread was supposed to be something anyone could contribute to.yes, but i don't know how to make all the spiffy neat buttons like you. mine would have looked pretty crappy... btw, thanks! it looks great!

[ragingfish]

There are also several members who have vast amounts of server space...reach out for them, or often times, they'll reach out for you if it seems that you need help hosting files...

[AKLGT]

if we can ever get that ftp server! lol

[joatmon]

I updated the image post above since we can now include uploaded images in-line with a post Last night's forum software upgrade changed some things, so if anybody finds a cool new feature, let others know about it.

[ZubenElGenubi]

We need to sticky this topic and put it in the Vibe Lounge (since forum posting rules are there as well). Very well put together, joatmon.

[vibe55]

Hello to all new member I have a 2005 vibe 5 speed 166K has anyone installed the G Force chip I drive a lot and always looking to save gas