FAQ: How To Customize Your Posts

[Jamie~poetshare.forumotion.com]

Did You Know . . .

• You can change the color "skin" that you see the forum through in your Modify Profile screen. Some have different fonts, all have different colors. I know, most of them suck. A couple don't, and I've seen folks using at least four of them. Got a suggestion for a color scheme? Leave it in the suggestion box.
  
  
• You can use the color dropdown to select a color for your font?
  
  
• You can change the color of your the background within your posts?
  

  Jun 25, 2009 9:33:35 GMT -5 Jamie~poetshare.forumotion.com said:

  Now you can change the background color of your posts if you wish. See the new button? If you click that it will say {bgcolor=COLOR}
  
  Change COLOR to the color you wish the background to be. In this case, I've chosen Teal. You do not have to close the tags with this function.

  
  
  
• You can Wiki link within your posts? Now you should see the Wiki button when you post:
  
  If you wish to have a word link to its Wikipedia page, simply select the word or Phrase you wish to wiki link to, like [[The American Revolution]], and click the button. Go ahead, click [[The American Revolution]]. See? Wiki links.
  
  
• You can place footnotes in your posts? This can be a bit tricky at first, for a detailed explanation Click Here
  
  
• You can hide information, such as
  SPOILER: Click to show
  key movie points in discussions, or punchlines in jokes,
  with the spoiler button?
  
  
• There are 50 extra smilies you can use for posting other than the ones above the Message box? Look to the left when posting for more smilies.
  

[NewMan™]

Jamie,

I have used the background change key and it looks cool.. as long as I stay on default as my skin. However when I was checking out the new skins I found a couple that wrote my words in white font which made it so you couldn't see the words at all with a yellow background.. So even though it is a cool function, I don't know who can and who cannot read the replies I have with a yellow background because it depends upon their skin..

I doubt if there is anything that can be done about this but it is the only problem I have found with having a different background color other than the normal white one.

D.

[Jamie~poetshare.forumotion.com]

Jul 14, 2009 23:54:55 GMT -5 NewMan™ said:

Jamie,

I have used the background change key and it looks cool.. as long as I stay on default as my skin. However when I was checking out the new skins I found a couple that wrote my words in white font which made it so you couldn't see the words at all with a yellow background.. So even though it is a cool function, I don't know who can and who cannot read the replies I have with a yellow background because it depends upon their skin..

I doubt if there is anything that can be done about this but it is the only problem I have found with having a different background color other than the normal white one.

D.

That's actually easily solved--you're leaving the text as its default, which does show up well in each skin as long as the background is the default for that skin as well. Just highlight your text, pick the color you want the text to display as well, and it will stay that way across the skins, as will the background.

Let me know how that works for you, but I think it should solve the problem.