Wonderful! Thank you!

Wow, lots of updates to the website. Thanks V.

Added shortcut icons to both external BBCode commands in the reply box above.

Look at the extreme right of the second row of icons at the top:


1) The RED rectangular box with the "play" icon inside it, is for embedding youtube videos. Just click on it, and select the video's youtube address and paste it between the YOUTUBE boxes in your post.
For example, in case of the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftuxbvGwiU, the video's youtube address to be selected for embedding is "sftuxbvGwiU", the unique youtube video identity after the "watch?v=" part.

2) The CLOUD icon inside the rectangular box, just beside the red youtube icon and also the last icon of the second row, is for embedding large images into your post, which will insert a pair of TIMG boxes into your post, just like the IMG commands.
(TIMG = Thumbnail Image)
Your picture will then show as a clickable thumbnail, while not disturbing the default size of the thread.


Enjoy, folks!

Wow, that's great, V! You're making it so easy! Love it! ::smile::

Great Additions. Thanks V

I see none of those features when i hit "post reply"?

I did

Now you can, too. (you had the Editor toolbar disabled)

How dare you!!! ::mad:::scared to death::danger::halloween:

These were much needed tools for the board. Thanks a lot for adding them up, V! ::cool::

::big grin:: ::stick out tongue:: ::big grin::

Reformatted the User Ranks so that they look different and separate from the Custom User Titles:

Newbie = In Tan color.
HDCian = In Dark Green color.
Senior HDCian = In Dark Red color.
Distinguished HDCian = In Dark Blue color.

You need a rank called Legendary HDCian = 20.000+ posts. ;)

Updates on the work behind the scenes:

1) Working on new sets of custom avatars. Will be available as/when I update the databases.

2) Tried to upload forum badges for the user ranks but keep getting FTP error protocol errors. The forum's vBulletin software is apparently installed in a FTP server somewhere out there which only horror himself can access. Sorry guys, have to make do with the textual ranks for now.

3) Quashing the reputation system. I took feedback from a few other vBulletin forums and like MichaelMyers reported, it causes more problems than healthy interaction between forum members.

4) Working on a brand new Post-Thanking system from today (if members find a post useful, they can thank the poster). Needs plenty of encoding/mods so this will take some time.

5) We now have 4 fully-powered all-new Moderators to assist neverending in his mod duties. So, I am back to lurking in the shadows.


Enjoy the forums, folks! Hopefully for a long time from now on.

Happy New Year, and may you all have a splendid, successful and fulfilling 2014!

Just make sure you post every once in a while so we know you're OK! Plus, I like to read your reviews of movies!

V you are legend!

Ditto!

http://i346.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps25479193.jpg

Just logged on and found everything upside down, then found this thread explaining the changes lol

UPDATE

- A new category, Vintage Horror, has been added to the Avatars section.
You can select from: Graf Orlok, The Phantom, Frankenstein's Monster, Cesare (Cabinet of Dr Caligari), Mr Hyde (1931), Count Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Bride, King Kong, The Invisible Man, Dr Gogol, Hans Beckert (M), The Shrinking Man, The Mummy, The Creature & Body Snatchers.

- User ranks now change into nice, dark red-metallic badges. Tell me how you like them.

Cool work V...

Just one suggestion - change this graphic to something else, it really doesn't fit in with the rest of the page..http://horror.com/forum/images/avatars/05.png

Couldn't find any suitable badges for horror forums, so I went with the one which resembled the dark red "horror" theme of our forum the closest. (ambience being the other, which is light grey)

Most forum badges available out there are for gaming/general forums. Tough to find horror-based ones.

Still in search of badges which would suit both themes. Once I find a good set, they will be replaced.

Do you upload them yourself?
If so I could give you a hand making them in Photoshop.

I could use all the help I can get!

Just 5 would suffice - Support, Newbie, HDCian, Senior HDCian & Distinguished HDCian.

Can you make some small, sleek ones using our custom "horror" banner? PNGs work the best.

http://www.horror.com/forum/images/V.../header_03.png

Thanks in advance!

I will try it over the next day or so.

I think what ever setting I am viewing the site I am seeing it different and maybe thats why those icons look bad.

I will post a screen shot later. Anyway I can make a set of custom icons for you.

Ok - I realised that there are different skins for this forum and I didn't have the 'Horror' one turned on.
So I will try make some to fit in it with this skin (is this the most used/)

How does this look:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...psd591b509.png

This is how it will look in place:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps48ffbacf.jpg

If you like this I can go ahead and make the set.

Looks great. The font looks awesome!

To accomodate both skin types (ambience and horror), I have an idea. We can make this badge reflect both skins - the horror.com logo with it's dark background + 3 red scratch marks across it looks like a good match for the horror theme, so how about changing the black background behind the "HDCian" to something matching the ambience theme - silver, light grey or dark grey perhaps? The "HDCian" part could be red (or a lighter shade of red).

You might need to stretch it a bit more (horizontally) for the other user ranks to fit in. The "Distinguished" part might take a lot of font space.

Second thoughts - if you can, change the "Distinguished HDCian" to "V.I.P. HDCian". Equally good plus it will take lesser font space.

Great effort! *thumbs up*

Ok I will make 2 sets - one for each theme, when i get a chance. Shortening "Distinguished HDCian" makes it easier too.

I am very happy to report that Attachments are working again!

We have lost all older attachments, since they were stored in an external Japanese forum server, which has since gone defunct.

First attachment attempt was made by me in urge's query thread here - http://www.horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64045

...and it was successful, like you can see. My daughter's pic uploaded up and is showing as a clickable thumbnail (you can click on the image to open the original one in a separate window).

Either way, attachments work from now on.

yes! I just uploaded one too (last seen concert)

The process of uploading/using Attachments:

Step 1)

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Step 2 & Step 3)

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Step 4)

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Step 5)

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Uploaded Attachment pic looks like this clickable thumbnail-

Isha, my daughter.

(Click on the image to open in a separate window)

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Hey V - I PMed you a link to a RAR file containing 2 sets of Icons plus the templates. Hope I spell everything korreck.

Got them.

Thanks, my friend. Superb work! *two thumbs up*

Thank you, Ferox and V for all of your hard work!

*NEW* FORUM RANK BADGES:

Big thanks to Ferox13 for developing these wonderful looking Rank Badges for our forums. The membership ranks stand as before:

Newbie = 5 posts,
HDCian = 50 posts,
Senior HDCian = 1000 posts,
V.I.P. HDCian = 10,000 posts, and
Support = Moderators/Super Moderators.

I will soon add some additional features for VIP HDCians, like a bigger PM box, access to secret parts of the forum (including the nude, dancing girls and the Laid-Back Bar), among other things.

Now I definitely have to get to 10,000, to unlock the secrets. Might take me a minute. Also, has anyone noticed that activity has picked up a bit these past couple of weeks? Not a bad thing...

I did notice that! I'm thinking it's due to all of V's hard work revamping the site!

ROFL!::big grin::

Nice job on the tags Ferox. ::cool::

V you're spoilng us! And thanx Ferox for the groovy grafix!

Really digging the new look of the place and the badges. Great work as always V.