Do you have questions related to using the forum? Hopefully they will be answered here. If not please email me through the contact form by clicking contact from the main menu links. 

Registration
Once you’re registered you will be able to login to the forum as well as the store. You must login or register first to be able to post messages in the Forum. After you register you will be sent an email with a link to confirm your registration. This is to cut down on spam in the forum. This email should come immediatly so if you do not recieve it within 5-10 minutes email me and I will make sure your account gets activated.

Getting Started
After you register and login, you can use your Member Profile to set the Forum view to flat or threaded (Flat view is recommended), depending on your tastes. You can upload an avatar which is a small picture to represent you in the forum, set your signature, change your password, along with many other preferences which can be set. You can always access these settings by clicking My Profile in the Forum header.

Create Message

1. Open the forum and click the New Thread button.
2. Enter the title of your message in the Subject field.
3. Select an appropriate icon t0 alert readers to your message or mark it accordingly.
4. Enter the your text in the Message field.

The text you enter will be displayed using the “normal” font setting for this site unless you specifically format words or phrases using BBCode.

BBCode
Remember to always place the text you want specially formatted between the opening and closing elements of the tag you select. The software should do this for you if you highlight a section and select the desired tag but double check to make sure there were no errors.

To use BBCode, follow these steps:

• Highlight the text you want to format
• Click the code element you wish to use.
• The opening and closing code appears in brackets before and after the text you hghlighted.
• If it does not it will place the tags where you’ve placed the cursor in the message text.
• Move the text you want formatted between these brackets or type the text between these brackets.

BBCode supports these code elements:

• Bold [b]—You make all the text you place between the opening and closing elements of this tag display in bold face.
• Italics [i]—You make all the text you place between the opening and closing elements of this tag display in italics.
• Underline [u]—You underline all the text you place between the opening and closing elements of this tag.
• Quote [Quote]—Use this tag to place a quote from another posted message into the body of your message.
• Code [Code]—Use of this tag displays the text that falls between the opening and closing elements as monospaced text in Courier font.
• Bullet list [ul]—If you include a bullet list in your message, you must “wrap” the list items inside this tag because it “tells” the browser that the following elements must be marked up (displayed) using bullets instead of numbers.
• Numbered list [ol]—If you include a numbered list in your message, you must “wrap” the list items inside this tag because it “tells” the browser that the following elements must be marked up (displayed) using numbers instead of bullets.
• List item [li]—Format each item in your list with this tag.
• Image [Img]—This tag automatically sets the display size of the image you want to place within your message. However, you must enter the entire path to the image you want to include. It can be a link to any image you have hosted anywhere on the web. The code will look like this: [img size=150]http://photobucket.com/yourfolder/yourimage.jpg[/img] You can make the image up to 400 pixels wide.
• Hyperlink [URL]—You can set links to external Web sites using this tag. You must enter the complete path to the Web site between the opening and closing elements, like this: [url]http://www.furtherdesigngroup.com[/url]
• Hide [Hide]—You can select a portion of your text to hide from the public, if you wish. In effect, this creates a private section that can be seen only by yourself, site administrators, or persons you specify.
• Color [Colour]—You can change the color for text that you specify using this tag.
• Size [Size]—You can specify a selection of your text, or all of your message, to be displayed in a different sized font.

Emoticons
Follow these steps if you want to use an emoticon, or “Smiley,” in your text:

1. Place the cursor in your text where you want to place the emoticon.
2. Click the appropriate icon in the Emoticon area.
   

The icon image will NOT be displayed in the text area. Instead, you’ll see a plain text representation of it. When you submit your message and it’s posted in the forum, however, the image will be displayed. DO NOT click and move the image from the Emoticons area into the text area; this causes the internal hyperlink to the icon to be displayed when your message is posted.

Attach Image file
Follow these steps to attach an image file to your message:
This procedure is different from that used with the Img BBCode tag.

1. Place the cursor in your text at the point where you wish to place an attached image. This is usually on a separate line between paragraphs or at the end of your text.
2. Click the Browse button in the Submit Image file… field.
3. A new window opens allowing you to navigate to the folder containing the image you want to attach to your message.
4. Select the appropriate image.
5. Click Open.
6. Click the [img] button.
7. FireBoard enters this tag—[img]—in the plaintext body of your message.
8. The image will appear in your posted message.

Attach Document file
Follow these steps to attach a document to your message:

1. Place the cursor in your text at the point where you wish to place an attached document. This is usually on a separate line between paragraphs or at the end of your text.
2. Click the Browse button in the Submit File… field.
3. A new window opens allowing you to navigate to the folder containing the file you want to attach to your message.
4. Select the appropriate image.
5. Click Open.
6. Click the [file] button.
7. FireBoard enters this tag—[file]—in the plaintext body of your message.
8. A link to the document, including the filename, will appear in your posted message.
   

Subscribe
If you want to subscribe to this new message—you’ll receive e-mail notifications when others respond to it—click the checkbox in the Subscribe field.

Preview Your Message

1. Click the Preview button to see your message before posting it.
2. Check the previewed message to confirm it reads as you wish.
3. Click Close This Window when you’re finished.

Submit Your Message

1. Click the Submit button to send your message to be posted in the Forum.
2. When your message is posted, the forum and board are updated.
3. If you don’t want to post your message, click the Cancel button.
   

What is boardcode? (In a more visual refrence guide)

Boardcode are special tags that will allow you to format your messages. Currently it supports links, bold, italic, bold, "quoted" text, img, size, list and colored text. The tags are used as follows: