Welcome New Members [Please Read]

[Brandon M]

Welcome to the All Border Collies Forums! Feel free to use this forum to post an introduction to you and your dog(s)

Rules and FAQs:

• Don't advertise sites that are not related to Border Collies or dogs in general in your signature. Unless approved by Brandon M or a moderator.
• Using the attachment option to post photos is perfectly alright but if you can please link to your photos from an offsite photo host like photobucket or flickr.
• If you need help with something please send a Private Message to an Admin or Moderator.
• No Flaming Will Be Allowed. Be Resprectful At All Times, or you WILL recieve a warning. After 2 warnings your posts will all have to be approved by a moderator. And if you break the rules again you will be banned. Any contrary opinions or points of view must be put across in a constructive, non-confrontational way.
• Please fill out the Location field in your profile. It doesn't have to say your city, county, province, etc. but at least country please as the forums are world wide and it helps knowing where a member is living to give proper advice and contacts.. (this is optional but appreciated)

Please let me know if there are any issues and I'll work on them.

Currently, the known issues are:

• Old Links - Links posted on the old forums are not displaying right on the new. I'm trying to get that fixed but if not I'll try to edit them so they work whenever I come across one. If you need to go to a URL and the link isn't working copy and paste the URL into your browser. Moderators, if you see a link that's broken feel free to edit the code out of it and just leave the actual URL in the post. I know it's a pain, you don't have to if you don't feel like it. I have a script that is supposed to automatically change them all to the new forums coding but it isn't working so far.
• Profile Info - You may need to update your profile information, including timezone offset and birth date because some of that information was lost in the merge to the new forum software.
• Signatures - Some members have custom text colors and sizes in their signatures that they will want to change the codes to reflect the new system. To do that, delete any codes in your signature that aren't working right and use the signature editor to replace them with new codes.
• Avatars - will need to be re-uploaded or linked to.
• Private Messages - All of your private messages from the old forums will have to be deleted or marked as read again.
  

Thanks for your patience and please let me know if you encounter any problems.

TIPS, NOTES, and HOW TOs:


Get to know your User Control Panel - There are features on these forums that weren't on the former forums. Such as attachment management. You can view all attachments you've ever posted there allowing you to link straight to them rather than uploading the same photo again which takes up more server space.

To Embed a YouTube Video - Simply use the youtube tags like in the code below, with the link to the video in between the tags.

Code:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sO1wdBhMY[/youtube]

To Attach Images - You can use the image tags or upload the images as attachments. To use the image tags use the code below, replacing the address with the actual link to your image.

Code:

[img]http://www.link.to/your/image.jpg[/img]

To upload the image as an attachment, click the "Choose File" button, browse to and double click the image you want to upload, then click the "Add Attachment" button. When you submit your post the image will be uploaded and displayed at the bottom of your post. You can add multiple images. Note: if you click "Preview Post" the images will not display. They only upload once you submit your post. Also, we encourage the use of image hosting sites like http://photobucket.com and http://flickr.com . Hosting your images there helps us save server space and bandwidth here at ABC.

Thread View - If you like the thread format of our old forums better, where the member details were all to the left of the posts rather than above the posts, you can change to that view in your User CP. To do so go to your User CP and on the left in the 'Your Profile' section click the link to "Edit Options". Then in the 'Thread View Options' check the box next to "Display posts in classic mode.". CLICK HERE for examples.

Forum "Board Styles" / Color Themes - If you would like to try out different color schemes for the forums you can change yours by going to your User CP and click on "Edit Options", then select a new color from the dropdown box under "Board Style" in the Other Options section.

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[LadyDaniela]

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