•  Summary

• 1 • Introduction - Getting familiar with the forum.
• • 1.1 • Structure
  • 1.2 • Navigation
  • • 1.2.1 • Using the drop-down menu
    • 1.2.2 • Using the tree-structured menu.
    • 1.2.3 • Sub-categories
    • 1.2.4 • Pagination
• 2 • How to participate to a discussion
• • 2.1 • Subscription
  • 2.2 • Identification
  • 2.3 • Sending a message
  • • 2.3.1 • The Quick Reply
    • 2.3.2 • Answering a message
    • 2.3.3 • Answering several messages
  • 2.4 • Editing a message
  • 2.5 • Quick Editing
• 3 • Rich-text Formating
• • 3.1 • Styling
  • 3.2 • Adding smileys
  • • 3.2.1 • The official smileys
    • 3.2.2 • The personal smileys
  • 3.3 • Adding images
  • 3.4 • Adding links
  • 3.5 • Adding a Macromedia Flash element
  • • 3.5.1 • Inserting a swf animation
    • 3.5.2 • Inserting the code from a video service (Youtube, Dailymotion, etc.)
  • 3.6 • Options
• 4 • How to start a discussion
• • 4.1 • Writing a topic
  • 4.2 • The poll, introduction
  • • 4.2.1 • Multiple choices polls
    • 4.2.2 • Closing a poll
    • 4.2.3 • Blank vote
  • 4.3 • Edition possibilities
• 5 • Reading the forum
• • 5.1 • The red and yellow folders
  • 5.2 • The flags
  • 5.3 • Mastering the flags
  • • 5.3.1 • Topic Page
    • 5.3.2 • Category page
  • 5.4 • Deleting flags
  • • 5.4.1 • One at a time
    • 5.4.2 • Choosing the flags to be deleted
    • 5.4.3 • Deleting all flags
  • 5.5 • The contact list
• 6 • The toolbar options
• • 6.1 • Profile
  • 6.2 • Edition
  • 6.3 • Quote
  • 6.4 • Quote+
  • 6.5 • Instant Messenger (optional)
  • 6.6 • Personal Website (optional)
  • 6.7 • System setting (optional)
  • 6.8 • Private Messages
  • 6.9 • Favourites
  • 6.10 • Rating a user (optional)
• 7 • Customizing the Forum and the Member Profile
• • 7.1 • General Information
  • • 7.1.1 • Pseudo
    • 7.1.2 • Password
    • 7.1.3 • Email
    • 7.1.4 • Gender (optional)
    • 7.1.5 • Visible email ?
    • 7.1.6 • Connexion status
    • 7.1.7 • Birth Date (optional)
    • 7.1.8 • World Map and Regional Maps (optional)
    • 7.1.9 • City (optional)
    • 7.1.10 • Personal website (optional)
    • 7.1.11 • Interest(s) (optional)
    • 7.1.12 • Occupations (optional)
  • 7.2 • Forum Related Information
  • • 7.2.1 • Personal statement and message signature
    • 7.2.2 • Hardware configuration.
  • 7.3 • Forum settings
  • • 7.3.1 • Customizable colours
    • 7.3.2 • Number of messages per page
    • 7.3.3 • Hour delay for marking a topic as « old »:
    • 7.3.4 • Displaying avatars
    • 7.3.5 • Displaying signatures
    • 7.3.6 • Displaying toolbars
    • 7.3.7 • Quote display
    • 7.3.8 • Smileys & images rendering
    • 7.3.9 • Modern text editor (previously WYSIWYG)
    • 7.3.10 • Lines hovering
    • 7.3.11 • Graphical theme
    • 7.3.12 • Icon sets
    • 7.3.13 • Forum Language
    • 7.3.14 • Zlib compression mode for pages
    • 7.3.15 • PM email alert
    • 7.3.16 • Contact preferences
    • 7.3.17 • Time zone
  • 7.4 • Instant messengers
  • 7.5 • Images management
  • • 7.5.1 • Creating an avatar
    • 7.5.2 • Personal smileys and keywords
    • 7.5.3 • Favourite smileys
    • 7.5.4 • Images Directory
  • 7.6 • My Alerts
  • 7.7 • Customizing the toolbar
• 8 • Search
• • 8.1 • Intra topic search
  • 8.2 • Global search
  • • 8.2.1 • Search types:
• 9 • Sanctions
• • 9.1 • Blablabla
  • 9.2 • TT
  • 9.3 • Ban
  • 9.4 • Censored images
  • 9.5 • Signature removal
  • 9.6 • Censored Smileys
• 10 • Appendix
• • 10.1 • Email Alerts
  • 10.2 • Retrieving the numeral ID of a topic
  • 10.3 • Message permalink
  • 10.4 • Report to the moderators (optional)
  • 10.5 • Forgotten password
  • 10.6 • The Tags
  • • 10.6.1 • [b] or [g]
    • 10.6.2 • [i]
    • 10.6.3 • [u] or [s]
    • 10.6.4 • [#hexadécimal_code]
    • 10.6.5 • [url]
    • 10.6.6 • [img]
    • 10.6.7 • [quote]
    • 10.6.8 • [spoiler]
    • 10.6.9 • [cpp] or [code]
    • 10.6.10 • [fixed]
    • 10.6.11 • [email]
    • 10.6.12 • [strike]
    • 10.6.13 • [*]
    • 10.6.14 • [center]
    • 10.6.15 • [size]
  • 10.7 • RSS Feeds
• 11 • Complementary features
• • 11.1 • Delete a message or a topic
  • 11.2 • Mark a private message as unread
  • 11.3 • Print view
  • 11.4 • Keyboard shortcuts
  • • 11.4.1 • The category list
    • 11.4.2 • The topic list
    • 11.4.3 • The topic
    • 11.4.4 • When writing a new topic page
    • 11.4.5 • When writing a new reply
• 12 • FAQ
• • 12.1 • Using the Forum.
  • • 12.1.1 • Basic Principles.
    • 12.1.2 • My profile, my preferences.
    • 12.1.3 • Polls
    • 12.1.4 • Folders, flags:navigation help
    • 12.1.5 • Forum features
    • 12.1.6 • Even more...
    • 12.1.7 • Advanced Features

4  How to start a discussion

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