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General Forum Use Instructions - 2007/02/14 22:54
PART 1 - Your Forum's Home Page
The forum home page is the first page you come to after clicking on the site's forum menu item, and it's also where you come to if you click the "home" link/icon in the forum's top menu. It gives you a quick overview of what's available - categories, forums etc - so you can decide where to go for information.
A - Forum search
Use this to search through the forum for a specific word or short phrase. eg. click in the box, type a word or short phrase and press your keyboard's enter key - the search results will appear with successful results in bold text. Click on the bold text entry, and you'll be taken to that particular post. If you have no luck finding something on your first try - don't give up. Be less specific and more general, or try words with a similar meaning.
B - Board title
This is the title of your board, and should probably reflect your site - eg. what your site is about, theme, content etc. You set this title via the admin configuration area.
C - Main menu
* Home - Clicking on this link takes you to the forum's home page. * My Profile - Click on this to set up personal preferences for the forum - eg. give yourself an avatar (little picture) or set a signature that appears at the bottom of every post you make. More on this later. * Show latest posts - this area allows you to view the latest posts based on specific time variables. * Help - Has some quick and useful information on using bulletin board code etc. * Rules - This is where people can read the rules of expected conduct on your forum. You can enable/disable this feature via the admin configuration area, and you insert your own rules by editing the rules.php file.
D - Category name
Think of a category as a "container" for a number of forums. In a way, it's a means to group and describe a number of similar forums within a single over-arching concept. For example, I usually have a forum category called "Housekeeping", and within that category I have forums called "Site Suggestions" and "Bug Reports" - the common theme is web site maintenance (housekeeping) - but they're very different forums in terms of content.
E - Forum name
This is a forum name - click on it and the forum with it's topic list will open up. There are 2 forums defined here.
F - Forum description
This is a brief description of the forum - it gives you an idea as to where to post something. If you can't make up your mind - most forum operators tend to have a fairly general forum
G - New post indicator
This column contains little exclamation marks - they're indicators as to whether there are any new posts in the corresponding forum. The site's administrator may use different indicators, or graphics - but their job is still the same. You'll only see these if you're a logged in, registered member of the site though - as this function relies on cookies.
H - Topics
This indicates the number of different topics in the forum.
I - Replies
This indicates the number of replies in the forum. If you consider the number of topics and replies as a ratio - you'll get an idea of how active/busy/inefficient a forum is.
J - Last post details
Indicates the date, time and name of the last post on the forum.
K - Newest post
Clicking on the little page graphic will take you to the latest (newest) post in that forum.
L - Mark read
Mark all forums read - clicking on this will change all of the exclamation marks in the column marked "G" to show that there are no new unread posts. This is particularly useful on busy forums if you've been offline for a bit and are unable to catch up on all of the reading.
M - Indicator key
This is an explanation of the colour/icon coding used to show whether there are new posts (see "G") in a forum since your last visit.
N - Version/copyright details
This is the software version number and copyright details. You must leave these intact - for various reasons - including the occasional need to quote a version number when seeking help, and legal requirements associated with copyright laws.
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