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We have created members Galleries and albums, so they can display their best works, or collections of images.
Each member has been given a standard personal album by default, that can contain up to 20 images. Once your membership has been confirmed, you will be able to access and uplaod to the galleries.
In addition to the personal albums, you can create up to 10 Sub albums, with a max of 20 images in each ...

As of today (7/8/2010) New members will be restricted in their initial posts. This has been done to prevent spam posts and accounts. Once your first 2 posts have been made, and they have been approved by one of the mod team, your account will have all restrictions lifted.

1/ Spamming is not permitted; please keep all your posts as constructive as possible.

2/ Pornography, Warez, or any other illegal transactions may NOT be linked ...

Due to the amazing success of the last contest, here is another one. :lol:
"In the Home"
As the weather is a bit rubbish, and one or two members are also house bound at the moment, it's time to shoot something within your house.
It can be any style or method etc, but the shot must be of something within your home or visible from a window ...

As some of you will know, guests can not view images uploaded to the forum, and therefor must register to see full size images you upload. This is done to stop copying and the farming of images from the site by anybody just flicking through. However this can also be off-putting if people are looking at the forum with a view to signing up.
So to give people a small taster of the quality of ...

As we know, Youtube can be a good laugh, as well as a good source of video tutorials etc
To embed a youtube video in to the forum, you need to do the following
1/ Copy n Paste the video url in to your post (eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GTn60gl1aY )
2/ Highlight the url you just pasted in to your post, and press the "Youtube" button above the post box.

That's ...

Something that many people are unaware of, is the fact that flickr insist on linking back, as part of their terms of use. We therefore use a custom code that allows flickr images to be embedded in to the forum, and stay within the terms and conditions of Flickr. If you wish to share a flickr image, this is what to do:
1/ Click share on your flickr image, and select "Grab html".
2/ Copy ...

Reporting of spam and general bad forum behaviour should be directed to the forum mods or admin.
For more serious issues relating to abuse, hacking, viruses and inappropriate behaviour, we now have the CEOP REPORT (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) button at the top and bottom right of the forum. If it is a post that is being reported via CEOP, please inform admin via PM (who is CRB checked) so we can ...

This is an example post in your phpBB3 installation. Everything seems to be working. You may delete this post if you like and continue to set up your board. During the installation process your first category and your first forum are assigned an appropriate set of permissions for the predefined usergroups administrators, bots, global moderators, guests, registered users and registered COPPA users. If you also choose to delete your first category and your first forum, ...