Building Websites

Show Off Your Coding!

invalid@example.com (Verridith) — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:14:55 +0000

Have you made something you're particularly proud of? A forum skin, or a post template? A character page, a wiki, miniprofile? Show them all off here! :D

I myself specialize in website coding and character pages; I'm completely self taught and love to try new things. Here's one of my favorites to date, though it's a little bit old! <3

It's the character page of a fantasy horse character of...

Show Off Your Coding!

What Wiki Software do you use, and why you should have a Wiki

invalid@example.com (IkateKedaStudios) — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:14:38 +0000

What software do you use, and why do you use a wiki. Simple questions. I think this is FAR more important for Original Settings, cause Harry Potter has a MASSIVE Wiki and you can just use that. You know? But Wiki's are incredibly useful, but their usefulness is entirely dictated by their ease of use. How easy is it to deal with these problems you know? What problems did you have, and how does your wiki solve the problem?

See, my community come from a fairly long line of Wiki using websites,...

What Wiki Software do you use, and why you should have a Wiki

Looking for Better Jcink directory design Ideas

invalid@example.com (Aisling) — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:02:44 +0000

I have been agonizing over this for a few weeks as I redesigned the skin for my jcink forums. The directory is great for the absolute basic needs. But I am looking for something more intuitive, easy to navigate that allows users to search for characters based on traits.

I am having a hard time finding resources on how to modify this. does anyone know a good place to start?
I heard a bird about something with Isotope does the trick but I dont know much about it.

Creating a Wikia

invalid@example.com (Mim) — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:42:23 +0000

While not exactly related to building your website, making a Wikia is something that many of us have done for the promotion of their forum or as in my case is trying to do. I use the word trying figuratively. I'm like Jack O'Neill, I can navigate my way around the galaxy, but I'm lost in DC. For me, I can do the rudimentary things, but that's it; I'm totally run aground as far as sorting it out, making it look nice and cohesive, professional looking. Any help in this area I would be so...

Creating a Wikia

Custom Cbox Coding?

invalid@example.com (grimfox) — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 22:53:45 +0000

So, I've seen a few sites with custom coding in their cboxes to alter the names, particularly of the Admins - changing font color effects (ombre effect, etc) and fonts without changing member name or message text.

I'm having an IMPOSSIBLE time figuring out how to do that. I'm sure it's a simple code, but nothing I'm trying has worked.

(I'm using cbox.ws for the record, and do have premium.)

Ideas?

Thanks in advance! <3

Jcink announcements to Discord?

invalid@example.com (Aisling) — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:46:52 +0000

Is it possible to link jcink announcements ot discord or visa versa? I am still looking for resources on it.
I think I have seen at least one other board do this.

Auto forms for Jcink?

invalid@example.com (Aisling) — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 06:34:28 +0000

I am looking into doing auto forms for faceclaims. I have seen almost ALL the forums doing this!
I am not sure how though? can someone point me in the right direction fo what to look into?

Least Favorite Website Elements

invalid@example.com (Tainted Snow Queen) — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 20:35:58 +0000

With having the post "What's your favourite web design trend?" I was surprised that this one hadn't come up, mainly so designers can look over things to know what to avoid when designing their websites. I, myself, have quite a few. ;)

-Headers that make me scroll down on my 1280x1024 monitor to see the content.
-People who color the background black, but will leave links uncolored, 255 blue.
-Use of animated gifs (I'm slightly ADD, so this is very distracting)
-Not taking into account that...

Least Favorite Website Elements

general help setting up Jcink board

invalid@example.com (Mim) — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 03:51:20 +0000

Okay, so I've volunteered myself to help run a Jcink board. Probably the worst thing I've let myself into. As of now, after a week trying to get things done, I'm still no further advanced. Its really difficult for me, because my coding exp is like zero and for this you need it, or some massive help. Its little things. Setting up the mini profile has been a nightmare; the board structure is crazy, for example, posts are transparent to the skin, making them really hard to read and I have no...

general help setting up Jcink board

Log in with Discord

invalid@example.com (IkateKedaStudios) — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 01:15:55 +0000

So, really cool thing I noticed on this site, and that is log in with Discord, or sign up with Discord. How do you set that up? I think that would make the process of signing up very intuitive for a lot of people. Does it automatically bring you into the Discord server? What are the pro's and cons of the system that you've found?

Avatar Help

invalid@example.com (Tenebris) — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:43:34 +0000

I see that RPGFIX is running a XenForo board, which (incidentally), I am also using for an RP site of mine. I am wondering, can any of the Admins chime in here and offer some advice as to how they expanded the size of the avatars on this forum? On my board they appear so tiny, I have to squint to look at some of them properly.

Any advice would be appreciated. :)

How to prevent " or ' from becoming quot;?

invalid@example.com (Orion) — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 01:05:42 +0000

I keep this error with my post templates mod for my site Beasts of Beyond. The developer has not responded just yet, which is utterly bothering after two weeks of waiting, but otherwise, we are fine for now.

For more information, we use SMF 2.0.15 and current are using this: https://www.smfsimple.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;download=224

BB Code Tabs

invalid@example.com (BlackDahliaRP) — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 03:43:41 +0000

Black Dahlia Roleplaying has just acquired bbcode tabs! Using tabs is an awesome way to keep things organized and to condense long lists of information into smaller amounts of space.

I’m here with a quick explanation on how to use this awesome new tool. First, it seems appropriate to show off what the code actually creates. Here’s a very simple tab display created using bulletin board code (also referred to as bbcode).

Title of the First Tab

You can insert...

BB Code Tabs

Need eyes

invalid@example.com (Tartle) — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:31:18 +0000

Okay I just had a soft open on my site and two very helpful individuals passed through to give me a heads up that things weren’t working. Well one major issue and fixing that sort of made the second thing go wonky.

With the mobile version of jcink I made zero effort to try and figure out mobile responsiveness settings. Half the page was showing and you could scroll to see the parts off to the right. So I fixed this by removing media and viewport css and bootstrap backend codes. Then doing...

Need eyes

Broken Enjin Theme?

invalid@example.com (ZeroVakarian) — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 15:37:42 +0000

My forum is being rejected by the RPGfix directory. I am told that while my affiliate link to RPGfix is working, there are errors in the site theme's code which are causing the bot to reject it.
Does anyone have experience with Enjin themes? I picked enjin because I am very new to coding/html etc and their site manager streamlines the process a lot. My theme is also an enjin theme, so I know almost nothing about how it works or what might be broken. How can I work out where the issue is?

Quote Element in Chat by Siropu for XenForo

invalid@example.com (Star Army) — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 20:49:04 +0000

I'm trying to change the background color so the content in the quote can be read, but I'm not sure how. I tried poking around in bbcode.css and in siropu_chat.css but didn't get anywhere.

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Mobile Site Design

invalid@example.com (Death Kitten) — Sun, 29 May 2016 21:11:06 +0000

Some CMS (forums, word press, Nova, and various others) are better at mobile friendly site design than others. My game uses Nova because I like it overall, and because it seems to be the defacto standard for Star Trek sims, but it is absolutely hopeless for mobile friendliness. At one time, I had been determined to fix this, then the developer announced that he was going to completely overhaul the skinning system with the next major release and that it was going to include proper mobile...

Mobile Site Design

Vanity TLD

invalid@example.com (Death Kitten) — Sun, 29 May 2016 17:51:13 +0000

In recent years, there have been a number of vanity top level domains made available for public register. Things like .rocks .ninja .space or .horse. While I'm probably not going to get a dedicated domain for my game yet, maybe wait until the one year anniversary, my xo commented that he felt that the vanity TLD look tacky or spammy. I don't agree, but I do recognize they're unusual still, because a lot of them are so new.

What do you guys think?

phpBB Bots are a B****

invalid@example.com (Rowena Ravenclaw) — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 19:54:28 +0000

I'm not sure if this is the right location to post this, but I"m going to try anyway.

I use phpBB as a platform for my self-hosted site. The site itself was given to us by two former friends who we had a falling out with, apparently they'd taken a dislike to the site and decided to hand it over. We took it, vamped it into something else, and as long as we keep the donations up they're willing to let us keep using the forum.

Now here's where the question comes in. We have a lot of bots in...

phpBB Bots are a B****

What's your favourite web design trend?

invalid@example.com (Shriker) — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 01:12:24 +0000

What web design trend do you like the most? Which ones do you dislike? Rounded corners, flat shapes, soft gradients, pastel colours, bevels (I'm looking at you, 90s), etc. Are there any design trends that you'd like to see more of, or that you think should make a comeback?