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Adding a Gametrailers.com video tag

A customer of mine recently wanted to know if I could gin up a custom ubbcode tag for Gametrailer.com and I obliged him.

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Handy Mysql queries for UBB.Threads

It’s good to have an SQL toolbox of queries at your disposal. UBB.threads has the Database Tools section, where you can save and re-use helpful queries.

Some are listed here.

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Adding a top logo to your UBB.threads forum

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen someone post on the UBB.central support forums, “How do I add a logo to the top of my new forum?”. It’s a simple request, really and we’ll find out that the answer is just as simple.

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Alternating row colors in a Post Island

UBB.threads usually allows for alternating row colors in many of the parts of the forum and it is nice to have in order to set apart the rows by color (or more specifically CSS styling).

The Post Island is such a creature that doesn’t allow this for some reason. Oversight? I really don’t know, but it is really a small tweak to put in the option to alternate the rows and make them have a distinct look.

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Adding Smiley pop-up to the Shoutbox

Have you ever wanted to have a smiley pop-up for the UBB.threads shoutbox?

Look no further, because I’ll show you how to do it.

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