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Hi there, I gather from your post that you are wanting to create permission specific forums, right? This is easily done by going to your Admin Panel and going to the section where you manage (add/move/create) forums. Now you'll have to modify the permissions for each individual forum you want to change the permissions for, you can do this by clicking on the permissions option, from there it's just a case of ticking and unticking boxes according to your needs.

Annnnd... I'm back! Shalom.. I mean hello! I've recently been away, busy annnnd the project I was working on got cancelled while I was on break... T'was a shame as the project had some interest and a great team working on it (I was glad to be a part of it) was going to be a website for people to show off, teach and learn about all areas of art, media and content creation but sadly the owner of the project came to the conclusion that the idea was to broad in scope... I honestly am in the middle of the road with his decision as it IS a great idea and one every member could find something in, but I also agree it is a subject to attempt to cater to. But meh... Owner of the project decided to it was too much for one site, and we was so close to finishing the construction too... Such a pitty. Oh well! I think the next project I work on will be one I come up with, or come up with alongside others... Dunno yet... (Two of the people I worked with expressed interest in continuing the project, but I dunno exactly if it'd be a good idea or not since it's a large area to cover...) Noticed no shouty-shout-box around here anymore... So figured I'd post instead. So I guess I'll be hanging around a little while, sadly.. Not so much in the tinkering department Though I'll assist others where I can.)

POST INDEX BOX *If you want a shortcut to a section of the post press CTRL+F to open your browser search bar, then type the number of the section of the post you wish to zip to. S1. INTRO S2. FORMAT S3. COLOUR S4. FONT S5. SHADOW S6. COMBINING ELEMENTS S7. ADDING AN IMAGE TO THE FORMATTING S8. FUN EXTRAS S9. CLOSING COMMENTS S1. INTRO Group Formatting is a great way to apply flare and personality to a usergroup. Making their display names so fancy they become the envy of anyone who sees them. There is quite a lot you can do, a little understanding in CSS/HTML goes a long way in this! You can really get creative and tinker away like crazy here (I personally find it fun, xD). For the benefit for anyone new to group formatting: The prefix box is for code and symbols that go BEFORE the username, and suffix code is for code and symbols that come after the username. For IPB when you go to the edit screen for a usergroup the group formatting part is just: Group Formatting [ ] Group Name [ ] FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style=''> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> So! The above code is where it all starts! Just drop the prefix part into the first box, and the suffix part into the second box. All the code you add to fab-up your usergroup will go between the apostrophes ( ' ' ) and if you are using multiple elements in your formatting you must make sure to put a space after the semicolon ( ; ). If you are unsure, don't worry I show examples of how to do this later on down the guide. S2. FORMAT When we think of text format we mainly think of it's use in posts and comments. It comes in many flavours (bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough) and all of these can be applied to group formatting too. An example of this is usergroups that have their names in bold to make them standout more, or someone who is banned has a line through their name, and I suppose some people can be weird and find a use for italic and/or underline in group formatting... That's cool too! FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-weight:bold;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-style:italic;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='text-decoration:underline;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='text-decoration:line-through;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> HOWEVER!.. There is a simpler way of doing text style, of which I'll show below... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <b><span style=''> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span></b> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <i><span style=''> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span></i> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <u><span style=''> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span></u> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <strike><span style=''> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span></strike> S3. COLOUR More than often people first think of basic colours when it comes to customizing the text colour of a usergroup... and that's fine! But I'm not joking when I tell you that an almost infinite well of possibility is with colour! You can use the HEX code of any colour you want, and if you aren't into that there is still a lot of options available for people who wish to specify their colour by name. Just remember that if you're using HEX to include the hashtag ( # ). If you put in the name of a colour and it doesn't work, then use it's HEX instead. If you wish to browse the infinite well of colours I will leave two sources for your browsing pleasure below. Colour Indexes: http://www.html-color-names.com/ or http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='color:red;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='color:#ff0000;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> S4. FONT In terms of adding uniqueness to your group name, giving it a unique font is really up there in terms of fancy levels! It's not that common seen either (in my experience anyway!) which is a darn shame, because in my opinion it's an easy way to add personality to a usergroup. Plus, it allows you to really create a unique style for your usergroups. Checkout a list of basic fonts you'll have access to without having to do anything below! Arial Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Lucida Sans Unicode Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana Now for how we actually use 'em!.. FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-family:arial;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-family:comic sans ms;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-family:courier new;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-family:lucida sans unicode;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-family:tahoma;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-family:times new roman;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-family:trebuchet ms;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-family:verdana;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> S5. SHADOW One thing I see being asked commonly is: Q:"How do I add shadows to usernames?" A: Honesty... It's easy! However, if you are wanting to tinker with the shadow you can change the colour, and pixel ( px ) values until you get a result you are happy with. Oh! I almost forget! With the right amount of tinkering you can also make the shadow act like an outline.. Which is also! EXTREMELY SNAZY!! So! The shadow... A quick heads up, text shadow often looks like a glowing effect, but trust me.. It's still awesome! FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='text-shadow: 2px 2px 5px black;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Now the code for making your text shadow act like an outline! I've used this quite a bit myself, and do think it looks really good! FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> S6. COMBINING ELEMENTS Now you've got all these elements to choose from, it's time to start combining what you wanna use and create something awesome and unique! Don't worry... It's easy! Here are a few examples, and for the sake of clarity I've bulletpointed what elements I'm going to use, then given the code needed for the prefix and suffix boxes to get the desired result. Verdana Blue FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-family:verdana; color:blue;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Red Italic Shadow (Glow) FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='color: red; font-style:italic; text-shadow: 2px 2px 5px black;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <i><span style='color: red; text-shadow: 2px 2px 5px black;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span></i> Underline Indigo Comic Sans MS Shadow (Outline) FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='test-decoration:underline; color:indigo; font-family:comic sans ms; text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <u><span style='color:indigo; font-family:comic sans ms; text-shadow: -1px 0 black, 0 1px black, 1px 0 black, 0 -1px black;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span></u> S7. ADDING AN IMAGE TO THE FORMATTING Another great way to really make your usergroups look unique is to put little images before or after the names them. Remember if you want the image to be before the username then you put the code in the prefix box, and if you want it to come after the username then you put the code in the suffix box. Just take extra care to remember that the image code either goes before your text altering code in the prefix box, or after your text altering code in the suffix box! FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <img src="" width="" height=""><span style=''> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style=''> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span><img src="" width="" height=""> In order to get the image to show you'll need a direct link to the image so it can be grabbed. Make sure your images is uploaded to your webspace, or that you store the image on a website like imgur ( www.imgur.com ). Oh, and remember it's the direct link to the image that you'll use to get it to show. Also, don't forget to fill in the width and height numbers so the code knows what dimensions you want the image to be. Example for reference... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <img src="http://i.imgur.com/QeM3VxE.png" width="20" height="20"><span style=''> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Or... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style=''> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span><img src="http://i.imgur.com/QeM3VxE.png" width="20" height="20"> S8. FUN EXTRAS Now! While we've explored many ways to make your group unique and fancy through formatting, there is plenty of other ways to go about it too! ...Here are just a few more bits of code to tinker with your usergroup formatting! FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='font-variant:small-caps;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> And... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='text-decoration:overline;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> And... FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <span style='background-color:black;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Have fun with it! Tinker around and see what dastardly level of cool, super and awesome you can come up with! Here is one you can try if you want! FIRST BOX (PREFIX): <img src="http://i.imgur.com/QeM3VxE.png" width="20" height="20"><span style='font-weight:bold; font-family:lucida sans unicode; color:red; background-color:black; text-decoration:overline;'> SECOND BOX (SUFFIX): </span> Oh! Feel free to post your results to this thread too! I'm sure people would love to see what you manage to come up with to make things unique and fancy... I know I do! S9. CLOSING COMMENTS - (THANKS FOR READING!) Annnnnd... There we go! I sincerely hope from the bottom of my lil' tinkers heart that this guide has helped you out... Even if only a little! If you require help don't hesitate to leave a comment! Always happy to hear some feedback if you have any! And before I forget... If you want to learn more about this stuff for yourself I recommend going to http://www.w3schools.com and exploring. There is a lot of goodies there to make the heart of any tinkerer flutter and explode! BEST OF LUCK!!! & HAVE OODLES OF FUN TINKERIN'!!! ( P.S: Special thanks to the songs for keeping me sane during the time I was writing this! xD : Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love, Flogging Molly - Seven Deadly Sins, Ram Jam - Black Betty, Muse - Panic Station, Shinedown - Sound Of Madness, Hollywood Undead - Bullet and Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure )

Ain't anybody alive who can top James Woods as Hades in terms of creating an intro, so I don't plan on trying! Anyway... I'm just a bit of a tinkerer, that's about it. I started messing around with website scripts back in 2006, starting with a board provider and then eventually building myself up to downloading scripts and installing them myself through a proper website hosting service. My first experience was SMF which at the time was pretty much a top choice in terms of free, than after that I tried MyBB and PHPBB ( the latter being such a nightmare I wanted to rip every hair off of my body ) though I still think MyBB is a decent piece of software. Then I came to experience vBulletin through an old site called GameCheetah, and boy... While I like the customization options at the time, at the time when I used it, it was easier to set up and get going than IPB, but always lacked the visual flare and appeal that IPB had...Especially that ACP, more nightmare fuel. It was a true terror, took forever to get every configured in vBulletin in my experience, and the amount of extensions needed to create something truly expansive was shocking... Then I decided one day to take the dive into IPB and for like.. 5 years now it has remained my favourite of all the website scripts. I've hardly had issues with it and for me personally working with IPB is just fun, especially when v3 was introduced, you may think I'm just blowing smoke up their arses, but no.. I genuinely mean I think in terms of community based scripts that Invision have the best one going, and is the most versatile, and since I started using Automation Rules I just can't stop having fun tinkering with things. Oh, and yeah, like most communities I help when and where I can, am always a friend guy.. Blah blah.. We all know the spheal! I'm also Jewish, and British, and God damn am I proud!

Yup, all fixed now. Thanks!

Same here

Hmm 5/10 catchy, beat was great. Just not my preference. More of a rock, metal sorta guy.

How embarrassing... After setting up a usergroup I had noticed the setting in there... Always the last place you ever look... Ugh...

Recently run into something weird... For some reason the post background and boarder appear to be a yellowish colour. I've tried disabling plugins and even applications but I can't for the life of me figure out what is causing it. It appears both in the default and used theme for the website.. <- It's frustrating, lol

I like to keep things as less cluttered as possible, and the less things on the desktop background the better.

I live in the UK and in my experience it's not too bad, but I tend to avoid Black Friday, January sales and such... Though closing down and clearance sales, now those are things to leave the house for!

Uhm... "I wanna play" such a cute thing to play... The nicknames we give each other. And like all the little things said here and there are awesome too. Really everything he says is awesome, ;x

Hostgator. Partly because they where the first webhost I picked myself. The other part is their support is actually pretty awesome and the features you get for the price are pretty decent (I was on the business package) I really can't fault Hostgator, I recommend them for people who want on-shore hosting. Also times before where I've not been able to pay my invoice on time they've been understanding and not shut anything off.

Hello the people! I swear to Thoth I'm just your extra ordinary British guy... Nothing norma- STRANGE about me! :x I'm a content creator, video, blogs, products.. I do a bit of everything and recently I decided I wanted a website.. But didn't really want a website made around a small area, like I wanted to pick a focus that didn't get much attention and I found that the very idea of content creation doesn't get much love community wise, there isn't many websites for it, and the ones you get like DeviantArt, FanFiction.net ( -Badly written porn- ), Wattpad are all nice but to me look outdated and only tend to cater to one specific type of content. And while usually I understand the idea that sometimes less is more, I think a website and community where people can check out all sorts of content and learn about all types of content as well as other odds here and there stuff sounds like an interesting idea.. So that's what I'm doing... ^~^