After thinking on this subject of copy and pasting the old stickyes over to the new boards, I myself have come to the opinion that it is a bad Idea. The reasons are simple. most of the time they just do not look as good and if they where all copyed over it would start to clutter the boards with stickys again.
The boards here do not have some of the advantages the other boards had. I will not focus on them, but rather focus on taking advantage of what the boards here have to offer.
one of the great advantages of the boards here is the ability to edit posts over a month old. To me this means that stickys would be better used as a index of links that can be updates.
I am also more confindent after looking at posts that have already been archived on the boibards that links made to the other site will not break after archiving. If they are not going to break after archiving. we are better served just making an index to the info on the other site and making a sticky out of that.
One of the problems, on editing posts on this site, is that some of the formating seems to get lost in the Edits. To over come this I suggest that anyone making a post that they think will have a need to be edited in the future, write and save the post in a text editor. This way when it comes time to edit the post all you have to do is open the saved text and edit it, then copy and paste it over your original post.
The sticky since it can now be become an index that can be kept up to date. Kind of like B_Harrison is doing with the Custom Content Tools on the CC board. People make suggestions of tools to add in the posts below the index and he adds them to the index.
Another thing that can be done with this index to to make links to other posts or threads on this board that are of interest. My concern here is that I Do not know if the boards here dlelte posts after an amount of time.
For color selection for the post. I have found this chart useful:
http://www.bbc.co.uk...15?skin=classic
If you wanted to make links to a single post on the old Bioboards. Like this:
http://nwn.bioware.c...15&post=2005871
It can be done but takes a little more work.
First you have to find the url for the page the post is on.
Then change the 'viewtopic' part of the url to 'viewpost'
and at the end of the url you need to add '&post=' followed the post number.
getting the post number is the part that takes the work.
If the post has a code block in it is is easy. just open the code block and the post number will be added to the new url for the 'viewcodepost' page.
IF there is no code block in the post, The only way i have found for finding the number is by opening the source code for the post. In windows explorer I do this from the
view menu ans selecting
source once the source code is open I can find all the post numbers on the page by doing a search for
rowspan="3"><a name=" following this number will be a few more lines of HTML code and the the body of the post it is for.
I hope this information is usefull.
Concidering the amount of time ti could take to put together a good sticky. I would suggerst that you let others know you are working on it. or at least what you are working on so efforts dont get duplicated.
My opinion anyway.
L8
Edit: another thing i find usefull is the BBCode [list I use it all the time to endent stuff in my posts.
Modifié par Lightfoot8, 01 août 2010 - 07:18 .
