• From: NY
  • Registered: 2009-08-26
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Topic: Thumbs up and other stuff

Quite a few members asked for a "like" button or thumbs up etc.  While adding kudos to a post is something done in some forums, I'm not sure this format has that ability.  In the short term, an easy solution is to simply click on "quote" for the post you like and then paste the following:

[img]http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_3266.gif[/img]

and it will end up looking something like this:

mekidsmom wrote:

click on "quote" for the post you like and then paste the following,and it will end up looking something like this

http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_3266.gif
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You'll notice that code for the thumbs up looks familiar.  It's really nothing more than sharing an image stored at another location (a lot like how chordie shares songs that are stored at other locations).  To share an image, see the sticky here:  http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=14150

There's a lot of other neat things you can do on the forum, with a little code.  Many of you know about smilies. 

 :)  :(  ;)

The above code will look like this if you just type it in your reply:

smile  sad  wink

There are more smilies that you can use, as well as COLOR , and of course chordpro formatting!
Next time I get bored, or as I see members needing help with some little things to spice up your posts, I'll add more info.  In the meantime, you can check out this page on chordie for more smilies and such:
http://www.chordie.com/forum/help.php?section=bbcode


The thumbs up is hosted by desismileys.com if you want to use their site and smilies for additional thumbs up and other images you may visit there and find code boxes on their site.  Simply highlight the code in the second box (BB code for forums), copy and paste it into your reply.  Their code is written so that if someone clicks on the image you have just pasted, it will bring them to their website.  Considering the site is helpful and not too filled with ads, I think this is ok.  You can also remove the url tags and all information between them and just copy and paste the information between the img tags.  That is what I have done, so that my thumbs up is not clickable and does not take you to another site, just the image is here.  I may simply add some more with the code to make it easier for everyone as we go along.  This italic font was brought to you by the simple letter i tag  big_smile

Art and beauty are in the eyes of the beholder.
What constitutes excellent music is in the ears of the listener.

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  • From: NY
  • Registered: 2009-08-26
  • Posts: 4,320

Re: Thumbs up and other stuff

Formatting your posts with BBCode

OK, so we need to spice things up around here a little more!  Here's some BBCode to get you going!  Today is about all the stuff you type and how to make it look more interesting on the forums.  smile

Bold, Italic, Colors, and Headings.  Not all color names work, but generally HEX Values do!
This is a decent resource for finding color hex values:  http://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp 
Simply pick a color, and copy the hex value you like that starts with the # sign and place it in the code as shown below.

[b]Bold text[/b]
[i]Italic text[/i] 
[color=red]Red text[/color]
[color=blue]Blue text[/color]
[color=#ff7ba3]This one is using a pink Hex Code Value[/color]
[h]Heading text[/h]

And here's what it will look like when you type it into the forums:

Bold text
Italic text
Red text
Blue text
This one is using a pink Hex Code Value

Heading text

There you have it, go make your stuff look good now!

Art and beauty are in the eyes of the beholder.
What constitutes excellent music is in the ears of the listener.

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