...am quietly adding flags

[admin]

... to the top posters signature (may do all), showing current home country. I think it's a good idea.
You'll see the [img] line added in your signature field (just testing it out ftm with a temporary flag source).
If for any reason you don't want it, it's free to delete, or any questions just post here.

Thanks

[RoadRunner]

Hi Administator,
You're doing a great job and I'm sure this is in the pipeline once you've settled on flags or no flags but would it be possible to place an 'Alt' tag on the flag image so when you hover over it it informs you of the country and possibly city? The latter bit (City) may be too individual and too much work? Just a thought since not all of us, me especially, arn't that up to date on our flag recognition skills! I like the flag - saves me looking up their location in their profile (being a lazy person).
Keep up the good work,
Cheers
RoadRunner

[Beezageezauk]

Yes, I'm with RoadRunner on this one as I regularly check locations in the members profile.  We often need to know locations to help answer specific questions....especially questions about local parts suppliers!!

Keep up the good work.  I'm proud of the forum, the way it's being conducted and the quality of the members.  Almost 400 now and we're still a happy family.  All down to you.

Beezageezauk.

[admin]

I'm proud of the forum, the way it's being conducted and the quality of the members.

...makes all the work & time spent very worthwhile. Thanks. And thanks+ to the members for the content quality.

worthwhile > useful, good, valuable, helpful, worthy, profitable, productive, beneficial, meaningful, constructive, justifiable, expedient, gainful. Sufficiently rewarding, valuable or important to be worth (justify) one's time, effort, and interest 

Will investigate further on how to best implement the country flags.

[MG]

I've made some adjustments to my profile flag (country name and wiki link), what do you think?

It is difficult to keep some flags apart due to the small size, like New Zealand and Australia, or Italy and Ireland. 

[muskrat]

I like that Marcus. Always good to learn a little more about other places.
Cheers

[RoadRunner]

I've made some adjustments to my profile flag (country name and wiki link), what do you think?

It is difficult to keep some flags apart due to the small size, like New Zealand and Australia, or Italy and Ireland. 

Well done MG - looks good; is it easy to implement?
Cheers
RR

[MG]

Yes, easy enough to do, it's like adding an internet link to one of your posts, using UBB code, but without having the nice buttons for it.


This is the syntax:

[img]http://(link to the flag image, as added by our admin)[/img] [iurl=http://(link to wiki)] (text and/or further UBB code) [/iurl]

My signature as an example:
[img]http://www.stopforumspam.com/img/flags/at.png[/img] [iurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria][i]Austria[/i][/iurl]

Cheers, Markus

[RoadRunner]

Thanks Markus - just added the UBB code for my country, just need a wee flag adding sometime [SORTED].
After all my web work I've not come across UBB code before - it'll give me sometime to explore this winter if the bikes completed by then unless I get another project???  

Keep up the good work

RoadRunner

[admin]

This is excellent. Anyone wants the flag & country, just follow in MG's steps, and if any help is needed, ask here.

To enter your flag: change the *.png
Examples:
Australia: au.png
Gr. Britain: gb.png
France: fr.png

It is difficult to keep some flags apart due to the small size, like New Zealand and Australia, or Italy and Ireland.

FTM flags are 'borrowed' from www.stopforumspam.com (very helpful site), I'll look into how to implement better flags, hopefully as a function inside the forum (when it'll get moved to another server, sometime in the future).

but would it be possible to place an 'Alt' tag on the flag image so when you hover over it it informs you of the country and possibly city

A good possibility, will look into it, but MG's idea does the job for the moment.

Keep up the good work.  I'm proud of the forum, the way it's being conducted and the quality of the members.

Congrats goes to the great members here.

Thanks
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