Online today, Adsotation and new BB Code

[roddy]

A few odds and ends . . .

At the bottom of the Forums listing there is now a list of all members who've been online in the last 24 hours. We're currently averaging somewhere around the 200 members online daily mark, which is pretty decent for such a small forum.

The Adsotate pop-up (look below the smilies box when making a new post) now works a lot more smoothly than it did previously - it no longer fails to work if you use obscure, rarely-seen symbols such as spaces . . .

If you want to use your own information for the pop-ups it's now easier thanks to the new button on the message editor screen. Select the text you want to annotate, press that button and you'll be prompted to enter the text you want to appear in [POP=pop-up]the [/POP]. This is obviously to be used for annotating [POP=hanzi / characters]汉字[/POP]

You can also use the spoiler button to post

crucial plot details

of films or books, if you so wish.

The button meanwhile allows you to link directly to a (Chinese or English) word's definition on iciba.net, like [dict]this one[/dict] and [dict]那个[/dict].

The tags for the new toys are as follows, if you prefer to type them in directly

 [POP="hanzi / characters"]汉字[/POP]

[spoiler]crucial plot details[/spoiler]
 
[dict]那个[/dict]

If any graphical genii want to come up with better looking icons, you will be thanked.

[roddy]

Oh, and I also tidied up the home page a little, the latest new topics (the bit down the center) now tells you how many replies there have been. Which I should have done ages ago. And there are a whole load of icons in the footer now for subscribing to Chinese-forums on various 'my homepage' type things.