•  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

6.5  Instant Messenger (optional)

This icon will appear if the member has mentioned an instant messenger software in his profile

If you click on this icon, a drop down menu appears listing the usernames and software used by this member

To set up your instant messenger IDs, head over to your profile management page and look for the Instant Messenger section.

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