Did You Know... when creating your forum:

[Scott Bishop]

Because some of us overlook the obvious...
That you can insert html (to place a picture) into our forum descriptions.

I placed a "NEW" picture to grab the attention of my viewers to it. Check it out: Surf Talk

[Janettee McCrary]

That's awesome, thanks! Do you know if it's possible to add a HUGE photo? (IE one that lists all of the topics covered - which would make it look like it has "sub-forums"? Come to think of it - if I can add HTML maybe I can just format links to make it look like there are subforums... Man I gotta play with this:)

[Scott Bishop]

Let me know how that goes. Reply with it here. Love to see it.

[Janettee McCrary]

I will - maybe I can tackle that this weekend:)

[Janettee McCrary]

I did play with this a little... Not really sure yet where I'm going to go with this, because I use groups instead of forum categories, but... I was able to create faux-subcategories, video, and large images. Here is a screenshot:

I used the following code:

<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://thtc.us">Sub Category 1</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/543tLM3UTNI?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe>
</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Sub Category 2</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a target="_self" href="http://api.ning.com:80/files/gvmWwVhLjXPz*ZID-tnKdpXiH*l4RuHK8Y-8ul5yOwmMaDiIzmIXfT8n0JEL-*qEAje0i2fMAcH7MK6TO1XTI5xUdlmhTLNM/ccoldtoys.jpg"><img class="align-full" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/gvmWwVhLjXPz*ZID-tnKdpXiH*l4RuHK8Y-8ul5yOwmMaDiIzmIXfT8n0JEL-*qEAje0i2fMAcH7MK6TO1XTI5xUdlmhTLNM/ccoldtoys.jpg?width=750" width="400"/></a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Sub Category 3</p>

Please note that the "p style" code is what made the Subcategories and their content (videos, photos, etc) have an indent (to make it look like they were really subcategories).

I'm going to delete this before my members start to wonder, but thought maybe some of you could use this:)

Some ideas - if you have a category that might require some instruction, or if you have rules about acceptable content, a photo/video may be a great way to include that:) Or maybe you just want to include something fun to liven up the forum area. Either way, photos/videos are great ways to do this:) My plan, should I actually find a use for it, was to link the "Subcategories" to the URL of TAGS so I could use TAGS as subcategories:)

If anyone finds a way to use this, I'd love to see it:)

[Jordon McGee (Jords)]

Epic!! Good find!