Our New Forum

[AlexAnderson]

Thank you everyone for helping with our soft opening.....we so appreciate all of you!

[Margo]

Waddaya mean soft opening??? Do we now have to do it a hard way??? :shock:

[Lorchen]

Soft? Hard?........ I just come here to chill.

Lorchen

[Lorchen]

I just want to find out what else you folks will come up with!

[JOHNANDERSON1]

A soft opening is what we called it in the grocery industry when we opened a new store on Wednesday and then had the official opening on Saturday. From Wed through Friday we could fix the problems before the big crowds started coming in.

[JOHNANDERSON1]

I do like the new forum, and the format is fine with me! I'm glad I could set it up so when I open the "unread messages" the newest one is first. One question, though. Is there a way to know which messages you've read during that session? In other words, when I've finished reading the unread message in a topic and go back, if I'm interrupted, I'm not sure which one I just looked at. It's an old age thing, I know, so be gentle :lol:
Brita

[Margo]

Me too, Brita! When I first come on to the Forum, I click on "View New Posts". I click the little icon to the immediate left of each topic to read the messages that have been posted since I last checked. If I get interrupted, I just click on my browser's "REFRESH" button and the only icons left are the ones that I still haven't read!

COOL!!!

[Margo]

OK! I have a feeling that there will be questions about my signature! If you want to create one for yourself here's how to do it.
Go to http://www.mylivesignature.com/

Click: "Click here to start"
You can either register (they will save your signature) or just proceed.
Click: "Use the signature creation wizard"
step 1: fill in your name (click "next step")
step 2: select the font you want to use (click "next step")
step 3: select the size you want to use (click "next step")
step 4: select the color you want to use (click "next step")
Click on "transparent" to avoid a white box around your name and click around in the large square until
the color you want shows up in the second rectangle.
step 5: select the slope you want to use (click "next step")

Click: "Want to use this signature?"
Click: "Generate BB code" (this is the format needed to post it in a forum)
You can either generate just your signature or do the one below it with added information.
Click: "Generate code"
Copy the code and Paste it into the TQS text box for your signature.

Open the TQS Forum page and click on "User Control Panel" at the top left of the page.
Click on "Profile"
Click on "Edit Signature"
Paste your BB code into the text box. Be sure that there is NOT check mark in the box labeled "Disable BBCode"
Click Preview to make sure it's right.
Click Submit.

Return to the "User Control Panel"
Click on "Board Preferences"
Click on "Edit Posting Defaults"
Click on "Attach my signature by default"

You may need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect, but is this KOOL, or WHAT!! :lol:

[Lorchen]

Gosh, Margo I better book a place on an IT course.

[Lorchen]

OOOHHHH!!!! I like this. Except I must have messed something up with the color cause it's still black. Oh well.

[Margo]

Looks like we will all get black text, :? and I don't know why there is a white box on some of them....but it's still fun!!

[Margo]

Thank you Margo...this was just what I was looking for...you are the best!!

[Patchworkjill]

Hey thanks heaps Margo

[Mandella]

Just adding my thanks Margo.

[bunny9]

Thanks Margo,
I will try the signature when I sign off. Your tips are very helpful. I have missed the daily chats as Lorchen said.