While the default for forum entries is straight text, you can use tricks to make your entries more readable and meaningful.
Users can use "Bulletin Board Code" to spice up their posts. Bulletin Board Code is very similar to HTML, where "tags" surround
content. However, "Bulletin Board Code" uses a very small set of the HTML tags, and they are formatted slightly differently. You are allowed to:
Create hyperlinks:
[url]http://fireandfury.com[/url]
Links to fireandfury.com and displays the link
Create hyperlinks with text:
[url=http://fireandfury.com]Fire and fury[/url]
Links the text 'Fire and fury' to http://fireandfury.com
Create email links:
[email]email@address.com[/email]
Creates a linked email address
Include pictures in your post
[img]http://phorum.org/logo.gif[/img]
Creates an image tag that will show that image.
You can also embed images in links, which will be familiar to those of you who use photobucket.
The structure is actually fairly simple:
[url=linklocation][img]imagelocation[/img][/url]
note the lack of quotes, use of "[" and "]" instead of "<" and ">"
and the nesting structure-the [url][/url] encloses the [img][/img].
As many of you use photobucket, you need to reformat the standard photobucket link into a Bulletin Board Code link.
Here is a photobucket link with an image from the Operation Windsor Game, reformatted into Bulletin Code. Despite being fairly long, it follows the structure above.
[url=http://s708.photobucket.com/albums/ww87/rferrars/Bovington%202009/?action=view¤t=IMG_9851b_trim.jpg][img]http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/ww87/rferrars/Bovington%202009/IMG_9851b_trim.jpg[/img][/url]
As of Summer 2017, Photobucket no longer allows 3rd party display of photos without paying an exorbitant fee. This was probably caused by some large commercial entity using photobucket as a repository for their images so they would not need to pay web traffic fees. Anyway, send your images to your humble webmaster at contact@fireandfury.com and I will put them in a new "publicpics" directory. This means that if your picture was named "imagename.jpg", the imagelocation url you would use in the above example would be "http://www.fireandfury.com/publicpics/imagename.jpg". When you send me the image, use a name containing your userid so I can keep track of it.
Format Text:
[b]Bold Text[/b]
[u]Underlined Text[/u]
[i]Italicized Text[/i]
Makes the text bold, underlined, or italicized.
[center]Centered Text[/center]
Centers text.
[quote]Does this quote text?[/quote]
This will indent the text inside the tags.
Each formatting command consists of a start tag, the content, and an end tag.
The start tag consists of an open bracket "[" the command, and then a close bracket "]"
The end tag consists of an open bracket "[", a slash /, the same formatting command as the start tag, and a close bracket "]"
Note that the tags are "case-sensitive" [i] will italicize text, but [I] will be ignored.
It is possible to "Nest" these commands to combine different formatting options.
Note the order of the tags and end tags. [i] was the first start tag, but the last end tag. It doesn't matter which
order you use for the start tags, as long as the end tags are specified in the corresponding reverse order.
Finally, as I don't allow most users to edit their posts, if you mess up some of these tags, just let me know at
contact@FireAndFury.com, and I will fix it for you.