[0m3GA ARS3NAL]

So, I've got a good BB Code here, but I don't know how the BB Codes on this site work, I'm only familiar with vBulletin...
But the idea's like this.

If you know a thing or 2 about web design, then you'll know what CSS is (Cascading Style Sheets)

CSS lets one produce cool formatting options, making tables, borders, backgrounds, custom cursors to use within the CSS and all that jazz. (Scrollbars too)

It's a bit like HTML, in fact, it's sort of a sub-set HTML if you will.
Though since I'm not TOO HTML savvy, and neither is a large portion of the earths populous, CSS exists to make our lives easier.

Well... I guess I'll post the code as it would be ready for vBulletin, let you guys check it out...

Tag Name: css-div
vBulletin Ready Code:

<div style="{option}">{param}</div>

An example of what a BB Form of this code would look like...

[css-div="padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px; border: dashed 1px #60B530; font-variant: small-caps; color: #60B530; background-color: #FFFFFF;"]This division box has CSS styling it.[/css-div]

And what the end result of the example would look like...


(The box would ACTUALLY extend to the edge of the border but this is a screenshot of the site I admin at and our margins are a bit larger...)

Into detail of the example...
Padding - The Space between the border and the text
font-variant - Makes the font do something else
Color - Oh come on now must I explain?
background-color - See above

There are HUNDREDS of different commands available with CSS, it would allow for the most intricate and magnificent thread styles, and signatures!

If the BB Code on this host is different from vBulletin, I'd be glad to re-format the code to suit this host indeed.

[Halcyon Dtier]

...

Might help explaining why you want access to BBcodes.

Edit: Re-read your post and you explain why you want BBcodes at the bottom of your post...
All I can say is No from myself and I think most of the staff would agree.

If you want a fancy signature (when we get them working again) then use photoshop.
Also I don't think letting people run riot with css/bb would be good for the site. I think many
of us would throw up upon opening neon green threads and you could possibly over-ride the
forums main css markup such as keeping posts a certain width etc.

This post has been edited by Halcyon Dtier: 28 September 2010 - 05:12 AM

[0m3GA ARS3NAL]

Oh no, I didn't want anything like access to BB Codes to change them, if anything an administrator'd be the one to do that or anything.
It's just something new I guess.
(Remembering back from before the forums broke.)

It works out on some other forums I visit, no abuse from it ever, the only people who know how to do anything with CSS are mature enough to remain... sane with it. Besides, I've tried messing stuff up, the worst someone can do is make their post REALLY wide, or REALLY long, or I dunno, make their post blank?

Though I understand and respect your response, just saying it couldn't hurt.

(You can't really change anything with a css-div tag, it's basically the same thing as a bold tag but with more options.)
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Since that one doesn't seem to be blowing over that well, I've got a simpler one that will actually be USEFUL for the forums.

It's called Anchor Points, and I hope you already know what they are.
But, in case you dont...

An Anchor/Anchor Link in a webpage is something like a quick-scroll button... it links from the Anchor Link, to the Anchor, which would be useful for tediously long threads. (Installing MHP2G QE, ammiright?)

You'd simply click the link to a section of a tutorial in the tut's table of contents (If it has one) and BOOM, you're at that section, easy peasy, AND, it's easy to use.

Let's pretend we want to get to section 4 of a thread...

First, we have Anchor
(As before, these are vBulletin ready, I dunno how the formatting for BB Codes here are stored...)

<a name="point"></a>

And when using it in a Thread, you'd simply type;

[a id]Section 4[/a id]

That would make it so that THAT specific bit of text, Section 4, can be linked to from that page.
Now we need to make the link that would go to it!

<a href="#point">Link</a>

Or in BB Code...

[alink id="Section 4"]CLICK ME TO GO TO SECTION 4[/alink id]

And you're done.
Now when you click the text, it jumps you down to the text it links to.
I figured if you didn't like my first one this one would at least be helpful eh?

[Halcyon Dtier]

0m3GA ARS3NAL, on 28 September 2010 - 05:24 PM, said:

It works out on some other forums I visit, no abuse from it ever, the only people who know how to do anything with CSS are mature enough to remain... sane with it. Besides, I've tried messing stuff up, the worst someone can do is make their post REALLY wide, or REALLY long, or I dunno, make their post blank?

We might allow things like anchor points for guides and stuff but not much else.
A few tags might be okay, but not anything that's really open to abuse.

I'll bring this up in the staff lounge.

[VioletKIRA]

vBulletin is win.

But what works good on vBulletin won't necessarily reflect the same results on IP.Board, they're different software. I know you're talking about simple CSS styles but in the slightest chance that CSS might distort the layout (e.g. I think it was another forum software called BuddyPress) it's gonna get messy.

One thing that I think needs to be activated is embedding Flash. Not just YouTube videos, but actual Flash content. If you do that, people can create online flash programs (such as a Quest Editor... imagine that!) that way you wouldn't have the hassle of distributing and updating frequently. Everyone would be using the same version so there isn't any hardware discrimination. But there are security demands though and obviously you would need to learn how to use Flash + ActionScript. Oh yeah Flash is slow, if you make it slow.

http://www.invisionp...products/board/ <--

This post has been edited by VioletKIRA: 28 September 2010 - 12:26 PM

[One]

Some stuff could be cool, but would we really need the "anchor" thing? its not that hard to use ctrl+f

[0m3GA ARS3NAL]

The_One, on 28 September 2010 - 04:22 PM, said:

Some stuff could be cool, but would we really need the "anchor" thing? its not that hard to use ctrl+f

Faulty keyboards, lazy people, and over all professional looking, faster than having to press CTRL+F whenever you wanna find something, or if that something comes up multiple times before the desired place...

Just trying to do something productive.