> Hello, welcome to the world of message boards!
Er. Been there, done that! My primary email address, at the moment, is the 2nd one I got - in 1990. I've had this one for 17 years now. The previous one I got in 1985. It is fair to say that I am familiar with online conferencing and discussion systems!
> As you have found out, DaniWeb doesn't support HTML tags. It's just a matter of preference, but almost all forums I visit disable HTML. It's used to prevent your HTML from messing up the rest of the page's formatting and Javascripts.
I'm sorry, but I don't buy that. This is a readily-solvable issue with a few subframes. I use HTML daily in posting to Livejournal, both in blog entries and in comments, and I never bother to close tags if I want the effect to run through to the end of my post - I know that LJ will handle it and sort it for me. That is, after all, what computers are for!
> So instead you must use
BBCode. They're often similar to HTML tags, except using [] instead of <>.
Nuh-uh. I have thousands of entries in various places around the web, and the common language is HTML. That's even what web magazines that I write for like The Inquirer (
http://theinquirer.net) and OSNews (
http://osnews.com) expect and demand.
It's not that I can't learn a new markup; it's that I won't. :-)
I'm not going to go through and edit any post I want to bring across from LJ or something and replace all the markup! Not a chance. I'll simply not bother putting it on Daniweb, if that's the case.
> DaniWeb-site problems should be posted in this forum.
Cheers. I had never heard of this forum, but Wavey - happygeek - moved my question here for me. Which is, in a way, answering it!
> Hehe, just use
AdBlock + Firefox.
I already do. I'm typing in it right now. I'm not talking about the banner ads, I was talking about the text box that says:
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Congratulations - you've made it! You now have the ability to participate in everthing on the site from posting on our forums to starting your own blog. It's a good idea to read our welcome guide to walk you through your first posts. Then, you're encouraged introduce yourself to the 139,111 members of our community. We'll all be glad to see you!
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At the top of *every single page I look at* and means I have to scroll down to get at the content...
> The ads are needed to pay for the server fees, and it's been a
much discussed topic here, to say the least.[/quote]
I'm sure it has!
