Posting

Creating a new thread

In order to start a discussion on a subject, you must create a thread, you can do this by clicking the start new thread button on the board index page.

To reply to a post, you can click the post a reply button at the top or at the button of the table. If you want to insert a quote to which you are replying, you can click the quote button of the post.

Guidelines

We ask that all members follow the guidelines stated below when using our forum:

• Do not post articles unrelated to the topic of this forum
• Please post your messages and replies in the appropriate board
• Advertisements for commercial products, services or web sites are not allowed (using your company's name and web site in your signature or profile is acceptable)
• Do not post resumes or "looking for work" inquires as this is a benefit of CINDE Membership only
• Do not post illegal or copyrighted material
• Do not ridicule other users
• Do not "flood" (ie. do not post multiple copies of a message)

Inappropriate messages will be removed at the discretion of the board Moderator, and the poster will be warned. Repeated abuse will result in the poster being banned.

BBC

For obvious reasons standard HTML code cannot be used in posts. Instead our forum allows the use of Bulletin Board Code (BBC) in posts. BBC is similar to HTML, but safe and standardized for bulletin board use.

Type This	For This
[url=http://site.com]SITE[/url]	SITE
[url]http://site.com[/url]	http://site.com
[img]http://site.com/image.gif[/img]
[img width=80 height=40]http://site.com/image.gif[/img]
[b]Bold[/b]	Bold
[i]Italic[/i]	Italic
[u]Underlined[/u]	Underlined
[s]strikethrough[/s]	strikethrough
[color=Red]Red text[/color]	Red text
[move]stuff[/move]	stuff :)
[shadow=color,glow width, #characters wide]TEXT[/shadow]	Shadowed Text
[glow=color,glow width, #characters wide]TEXT[/glow]	Glowing Text
[flash]http://site.com/flash.swf[/flash]	Flash Movie
[quote]Quoted text[/quote]	Quoted text

Emoticons

Emoticons are a fun way to express your emotion in your posting. They can help you indicate whether you are joking, happy, sad, or a variety of other things. Each emoticon uses standard chat-style key-strokes, so it requires no thinking on your part.

Emoticon	Type this...
	:)
	:D
	;D
	;)
	:(
	:-*
	>:(
	:P
	:'(
	:-[
	8)
	:o
	::)
	:-/
	:-X
	??? or ?!?