forum

This is the online Forum available to SOF members and College 6th Formers.

The forums are split into various Categories e.g. "Discussion Boards", sub-divided into Forums e.g. "General Chat" and individual Topics e.g. "Channel Four Programme".

Viewing
To view a Forum click on its title and then to view a Topic click on its title.

Participating
To participate in a Topic, click on its title and then select "Post Reply".

To create a new Topic. you have either to be either viewing a Forum or an existing Topic, select "New Topic".

Using images and links
The forums support the use of images and links (URLs) in postings as well as a number of text formatting attributes. Raw HTML may be used directly within the message body, or else the assisted-code buttons (see below)provided in the post submission form may be used to automatically insert the code

Using raw HTML
To insert an image into your message use the following code (substituting the text in red as appropriate):

To insert a link (URL) to a website, or page on a website, use the following HTML code (substituting the text in red as appropriate)

Using the assisted-code buttons
The post submission form has a number of buttons to assist with inserting images, URLs and other text-formatting elements - including font colour and size via pull-downs below the buttons. There is also a small window below that will automatically display the code to be inserted by a button that appears when the mouse is placed over the button.

assistance buttons & code help

To insert assisted code, press the appropriate button to open the auto-tag (activate). A star will appear on the button to show an "active" status. Then enter the URL of the image, website, or text that will have the attribute applied to it. When you have finished entering the URL, or text you wish the attribute applied to, simply push the button again to close the tag (de-activate) and return to normal text entry.

Certain attributes (for example <font> colour and size from the pull-downs) may require re-positioning of the cursor between the inserted tags as shown below (otherwise the attribute won't be applied):

Smileys
To the left of the message body input area in the posting form there is also a panel of clickable smileys. To insert these into your message simply click the appropriate image. The forum code for that image will be automatically inserted at the end of the text already typed.

Further Information
For further information on the Forum view the forum Category "Website Comments/Suggestions" or email the SOF website team via "Contact Us" at the top right of a web page.

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