9. Tips & Tricks

Aside from the major changes, vBulletin also allows a plethora of useful tools at your disposal. Likewise, there are some other less obvious changes within Menewsha you should be aware of.

• BBcode no longer generates gold, so most of the post restrictions related to excess code have been repealed. However, be sure to read over the revised rules, as you will be held accountable to them.

• Font sizes use different values in vBulletin based off of HTML rather than what you're probably familiar with and range from 1 at the smallest to 7 at the largest.

• Bolded thread titles indicate that a topic is currently unread. Additionally, a red exclamation point on a forum icon indicates there's a new post in that forum or subforum.

• The F.A.Q. is now a convenient and easily searchable tool to look up information you need to know. This will be more efficient than flooding the Information Desk with questions after the switch, so please take advantage of it.

• You may have seen this icon on the left-hand side of a thread title. Clicking it will jump you straight to the first unread post within that topic (unread posts are marked by an orange paper icon). This is extremely useful when catching up on a subscribed thread. When browsing the thread itself, you can also click "View First Unread" at the top of the screen and it'll jump you straight to the oldest unread post.

• In order to see the text editor box, smilies, and coding buttons you need to have your Message Editor Interface (found in My Account-->Edit Options) set to Standard. However there's another setting, What You See Is What You Get, that both enables those functions and shows exactly how your post will look as you type it. A more advanced guide for BBCode can be found here.

• New BBcode is available, including alignment coding, and a [thumb] code for instant thumbnails for pictures!