How to SHOUT on the forums

[johnfowles]

As well as displaying clickable thumbnails four other new VBcodes allow you to vary the text formatting as additional options
as described on the vbcode page at:-
http://www.corfid.com/vbb/misc.php?do=bbcode
to the earlier UBB ones that enabled only bold and italic tags

1. a similar underline is now available
   this text is underlined
2. and you can call up a range of text colors using this tag syntax
   [ color=Option ]
   value
   [/color]
   where "value" is the text you want show in colo(u)r
   and "option" is a color name (see below)
   (as with all BB codes it is essential that there are no spaces betwen the [ ] and the instruction AND the item to be coded hence the tag above should be [color=option])
   those who know about HTML will know that there are in fact
   140 COLORNAMES each associated with a Hexadecimal code WTF is that
   for the HTML names and hexadecimal values for the 140 colors recognized by web browsers
   SEE
   http://halflife.ukrpack.net/csfiles/help/colors.shtml
   I have experimented and in fact the list of color names that VBcode supports is limited to the basic 16 as per this table extracted from the relevant wiki which has much to say about the use of color on the web at:-
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors
   
   Note in order to read that screenshot properly click as suggested to enlarge it to see the full sized file
   
   1. aqua aqua
   2. black black
   3. blue blue
   4. fuschia fuschia
   5. green green
   6. gray gray
   7. lime lime
   8. maroon maroon
   9. navy navy
   10. olive olive
   11. purple purple
   12. red red
   13. silver silver
   14. teal teal
   15. white white
   16. yellow yellow
   
   Note three things
   1. The first four of the 16 colors obviously are excluded leaving you with a nice choice of 12
   2. As HTML was (presumably) US originated Brits Canucks and others will have to swallow their pride and prejudices and play along by mispelling "color" and "gray"
   3. Obviously blue/navy and white are of limited use because the two available forum "styles" are the original white on blue and the "default" black text on a white background
3. a range of text sizes is now available
   [size=Option]value[/size]
   this text is two sizes larger than normal
   
   Note that there seems to be just the one two times size option whereas the equivalent HTML size tag allows for 6 total text sizes
4. a choice of text font is offered

along the lines of the equivalent HTML "font families" explains WTF that is
The usual 3 are
serif; sans serif; monospace and cursive represented respectively most usually by times,arial.courier and probably Comic Sans MS
this text is in a monospace font (courier new)
this text is in a serif font (times or Times New Roman?)
this text is in a sans serif font (arial most likely?)
this text is probably in a cursive font (Comic Sans MS???)
ASIDE, one of the things you quickly learn when studying HTML is that the font that will be displayed on the average punter's computer depends entirely on what you specify and moreover on what fonts his computer has installed . bearing in mind if you can that there can be differences betwen PCs and MACs.
Ron M if you'd like another instant headache go read:-
http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/html-tutorial/fontlist.htm
and/or
http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html
OK OK enough already I hope this gives corfidites who have got this far some food for thought
John Fowles
P.S.so if you really want to shout your message you can use the lot
Times bold red largest size underlined!!
THAT'S ALL I AM GOING TO SAY ABOUT THAT:- FLORIAN YOUR SHOUT!!!!

[charlene]

Florian is tending his garden and lawn...

[Florian]

[timetraveler]

Sir John, you STILL have one wild sense of humour.