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To get your flag: Go to Profile > Forum Profile Information > Signature and enter
[img]https://www.a7a10.net/forum/flags/**.png[/img]
Swap ** for your country code letters. Most of the world available, some examples:
au.png
gb.png
sct.png
nz.png
us.png
ca.png
ch.png
fr.png
at.png
de.png
es.png
se.png
etc
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. ???
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I like that Marcus. Always good to learn a little more about other places.
Cheers
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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
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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]https://(link to the flag image, as added by our admin)[/img] [iurl=https://(link to wiki)] (text and/or further UBB code) [/iurl]
My signature as an example:
[img]https://www.a7a10.net/forum/flags/at.png[/img] [iurl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria][i]Austria[/i][/iurl]
Cheers, Markus
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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??? *smile*
Keep up the good work
RoadRunner
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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.
Edit: better flags added.
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
e
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Great instructions, I struggle with this stuff but by tinkering to my profile, now have a NZ flag and moniker *smile*
...nz.png
...wiki/New_Zealand]New Zealand[/iurl]
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Actually I'd love to add a flag but honestly can't follow any of the above , it is pure gobble-d-gook to me ,so on behalf of any other twits, like me , ( there must be at least one .... please someone else own up ) any chance of showing the correct sequence alternatively could either Richard L or Markus pop over to Liverpool to show me ??On reflection probably not a good idea ,I hate to see grown men cry !! I live in hope of inspiration regards BobH
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Topdad, came across your post, you've got the flag. Anyone else needs help, just post in this thread.
Would be nice if the forum software had some built-in flag\country option, but as it is not the case, inserting the code with links is a way of achieving it.
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So Admin, where's your flag??
I have to find mine, cheers
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So Admin, where's your flag??
I have to find mine, cheers
I think he only uses a flag when he has his A10GF head on. I was going to see if I could change mine from Scotland to Hungary but it seems to have disappeared.
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Fido, Dutch, flag fixed.
For an admin, it must be the Kingdom of the Net, but no such flag exists :O)
Edit: found the flag of Utopia :O)
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Don't think I've managed to add a flag yet. I have a span of attention that fails to engage with most instructions however simple. Figured it would be in profile maintenance but couldn't see it.
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Figured it would be in profile maintenance but couldn't see it
As mentioned in this topic, there is no built-in flag option, needs an extra link in the profile. For those who manage to follow the instructions, go ahead and add it, for others I'll do it. So cyclo, you've got the flag (look at your signature to see how it was done).
The next major forum update will hopefully include a flag option, as the way it's done here (patchwork) is cumbersome (but it works!).
The recipe (example, Australia, flag + country info link), to be pasted in your Signature:
[img]http://www.a7a10.net/forum/flags/au.png[/img] [iurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia][i]Australia[/i][/iurl]
To enter your flag: change the *.png to your country's two letters abbreviation:
Australia: au.png
Gr. Britain: gb.png
France: fr.png
India: in.png
To get your country info, find a good link, example wiki, and paste it in, and enter the country name at the end.
Simple, ain't it ;O)
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Many thanks Admin, I'm still hanging my head in shame has I don't have a clue what those instructions mean ,I am so bad that when I worked for a major building soc and my branch P C went u/s on contacting the IT dept grown men were seen flinging themselves out of the windows in Wolverhampton which was okay until they moved 'em to the 4 th floor!! cheers BobH.
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did it work
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yes it did,i love it when a plan comes together,cheers
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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.a7a10.net/forum/flags/at.png[/img] [iurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria][i]Austria[/i][/iurl]
Cheers, Markus
Good info thanks. I've added a flag, info about my town and enlarged my signature.
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Can "admin" please add Union Jack to My profile please ... Im too thick !
Thanks ,
Steve ....
Hi, I did a board search for the word 'flag' and found a string about doing this. I've just modified my sig to show a Union flag along with a link to the Wikipedia page about my town. This what I have in my sig box. Try Copy/paste into your sig before editing to your satisfaction. You need to leave the edit page and go to summary to see the effect.
[size=3]Neil Ives[/size]
[img]http://www.a7a10.net.com/forum/flags/gb.png[/img]
[iurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Malvern][i]Malvern UK[/i][/iurl]
Proud owner of 1955 Golden Flash
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^^ Congrats with the flag job.
btw, ref your wikipedia Great Malvern link, looks like a great place.
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^^ Congrats with the flag job.
...your wikipedia Great Malvern link, looks like a great place.
Thanks.
Great Malvern is ok; I certainly wouldn't want to live in a city!
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Update: finally got around to get an in-forum flag collection, see http://www.a7a10.net/forum/index.php?topic=4465.msg30023#msg30023 for instructions.
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It is a great idea, and important when somebody asks for a supplier for something, and they are on another continent. Not much point telling somebody 4,000 miles away my corner shop sells them!
Don't worry Topdad, I tried to upload a flag a while back, and failed dismally! Even now after reading this thread I have no idea what to do. It's all gibberish to me.
Still, we have both got a flag now thanks to admin.
mf
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metal, look in your Profile > Forum Profile Information > Signature and you'll see the system (btw I took the liberty of fixing your wikipedia link). It's called BBC (bulletin board code), which makes it possible to add links, pictures, special characters, colors etc. in posts which are otherwise basic text-only.
Now, there should have been a much easier way of doing this, but as it is now the forum program does not provide this, therefore the workaround of inserting the link to a flag into the profile.
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Thanks for your patience and effort. wink2