Do you notice....

[Ed]

...how fast this forum software is?  A few times I've hit a button and then looked away for a split second, looked back and thought, 'aw, come on'...not realising that the page is already there.  Every page comes up within a second, max.

Dunno whether it'll get slower as the forum grows, but a few people using SMF have said their forums are way faster than the rest, even after months of use.  Now I go to other Invision and vBulletin forums and find it really slow in comparison.

Just thought I'd mention it.... I know...geeky thread...sorry....

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

It does appear to be a lot faster. Oh no! It's this kind of interface (Post Reply). I have to do more typing for my URLs. 

Is there any way to get it to prompt for the URL and a name for the URL? That would be sweet. 

Great site though. The green text is Linda Blair cool!

[Neuromancer]

cant you just type it?

IE

www.cafedoom.com

or Ya know like this?

[Ed]

It does appear to be a lot faster. Oh no! It's this kind of interface (Post Reply). I have to do more typing for my URLs. 

Is there any way to get it to prompt for the URL and a name for the URL? That would be sweet. 

Great site though. The green text is Linda Blair cool!

Glad you like it, the appearance at least

Dunno about the URL naming thing, but I'll ask the question 

[Neuromancer]

Oh I see about the extra typing...

Well you can always just cut n paste the URLs and not rename them...

Uhh how Gauche

(Thats they way I always done it though )

[Vivacious]

^{Is there any way to get it to prompt for the URL and a name for the URL?}

Neuro, I think he means when posting a url.

LotD; When you hit the "insert hyperlink" button you'd like a popup window prompting you for the text to be displayed and the hyperlink addy. Correct?  I have no idea how to make that happen, but I'll look into it! 

[Troglodyte]

On a related theme: I'd like to ask about posting images into messages. When the Insert image button is hit, you then have to paste in a url? Do we not have the facility to browse for images held on our own pcs, or can we only post images that have a web addy?

[Ed]

Yeah, you just hit 'additional options' under the box you type your reply in.  There's a filesize limit of 128 KB, so it's not all that useful.  You're better off remote hosting at somewhere like http://imageshack.us  You just browse and click on the file you want to upload, then click 'host it'.  After the file has uploaded, a page comes up with the URL of your image on (you want the top one to post on forums) click on 'copy URL' and then ctrl+v to paste it into your message.  Job done, and it's free to use.

If you've got a few you want to post, it's worth opening up a text editor, like Notepad, or Word, so that you can just paste the URLs in there one at a time.  That's what I do anyway

[Neuromancer]

To post a URL just post it... you dont need to do anything

To posta link as something other than the URL  like using the [ U R L ]   tags...

Its [ U R L = hxxp:\\wwm. mylink.cum ]  your text here [ / U R L ]

hmm

guess that is a eensy bit o work

still I always used keyboard stuff as opposeed to stopping typing and moving up to the mouse... blah blah blah

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

^{Is there any way to get it to prompt for the URL and a name for the URL?}

Neuro, I think he means when posting a url.

LotD; When you hit the "insert hyperlink" button you'd like a popup window prompting you for the text to be displayed and the hyperlink addy. Correct?  I have no idea how to make that happen, but I'll look into it! 

Yes, I think it's java enabled or something. Just makes the process quicker. I like to name the links rather than have a long boring addy. But it's no sweat if it can't be done.