If you know what to look for, you can just right click your mouse on the page I made for you, and select "view source". That will give you the code for the page. Like I said, if you know what to look for, you can just pick it out that way.
What you need to do though, is download the Great Smials banner, the oversize "w" at the beginning of the welcome, and the background image. I'm not going to leave them permanently on my site, but I won't remove them until you've downloaded the material. To download an image, right click on it, then select "save image as" and save it to your hard rive. Then upload the images to your site.
To get the banner where you want, login to net54. Go to the "options" menu. In the first field called "Forum Name" paste the URL, with the <img> tag around it. To center it, place the <center> tag around the <img> tag.
For the oversized "w", the welcoming text and the links table, I suggest you look at the code in view source on the sample page and copy and paste the whole table into the "Forum Description" field, also located in the "options" section. At this point, you can just rewrite the welcome inside the field. You can also change the links to whatever you see fit. This way the code will stay intact, and no matter how many links you add, delete or change, the table will hold it's form.
For the rest of the options field, I think you're all set. My personal settings are "allow formatted text", "show IP address". "Sort order" is 'decending', and "thread format" is 'fully threaded'. My "thread limit" is set to '20' and "page limit" is set to '0' for unlimited pages. Under "button labels" I basically use the defaults, though I've changed the names a little bit. On the "go back link" I put in my web page's address, and made the text read as the title of my page. All this is under "basic options" and "button labels" in the "options" menu.
Now go to the "appearance" menu. Set the Background color to "000000", text color to "FFFFFF", link color to "6699FF", and the vlink color to "FF0000". The rest of the color fields don't matter, so don't worry about them, except, set "line color" to "000000" as well.
Next, "line thickness" should be set to "thin", and "table shading" set to "transparent". Ignore the "forground image" field, just leave it blank. In "background image" paste the URL of the black background you just uploaded from your hard drive.
For "add location" pick 'top of page'. For "forum style" pick 'simple outline bullets' and for "default font" pick 'arial, helvetica'. For the last option on the page, pick "small".
That's everything you need to worry about. Hopfully this is all clear enough for you to make the changes without a problem.
Posted on Nov 24, 2000, 8:26 PM from IP address 209.214.185.35