1. How do I link my Forum to my Homepage, and vice-versa?
  2. How do I change the colors of my Message Board and Chat room?
  3. How do I change the background color/image on my Start Page?

  1. How do I link my Forum to my Homepage, and vice-versa?
    If you host a Premium Forum, you can add a "Webpage" tab to your Forum that links to a Web page of your choice. In your controls, select "Main Settings" from the "Forum Properties" menu. Scroll down to the "Forum Webpage" section and enter the desired URL (beginning with http://) into the window provided.

    If you host a Starter Forum, you can add Web page links to your Start Page using HTML.

    If you want to create a link to your message board from some other Web page on another site, use the HTML:

    <a href="http://forums.delphiforums.com/WEBTAG"> Visit My Forum</a>

    Be sure to put your own 'Webtag' in place of the WEBTAG in the example above. The text in green can be substituted with anything you wish.

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  2. How do I change the colors of my Message Board and Chat room?
    If you host a Premium Forum, there are three ways to change the colors in your Forums:
    1. Select a new Color Theme for your Forum. In your Control Center, select "Color Themes" from the "Forum Properties" menu.
    2. Make selective changes to specific fonts and colors. In your Control Center, select "Colors and Fonts" from the "Forum Properties" menu.
    3. Advanced users can completely customize the Forum interface using Cascading Style Sheets. From the "Colors and Fonts" page, select the "StyleSheet Editor" link at the top of the page.
    Starter Forums will only have the default Delphi coloring.

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  3. How do I change the background color/image on my Start Page?
    You don't have access to the <BODY> tag in your Start Page or Web page on Delphi Forums, so you can't change the BGCOLOR that way. A workaround that's been used is to make a table with height="100%" and width="100%" values, and include a bgcolor= or background= statement within the table or td tags. To learn more about using HTML on your forum, visit Using HTML on Delphi Forums.

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