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Maybe some people here (newbies or not) may still wonder how to add colors to comments or how to write words bold or underlined. Well no need to be a BBCode wizard if you use Firefox. There are plenty of extensions providing everything you need to spice up your posts.

Download this Firefox add-on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/128

Simply mark the word or sentence you want to colorize or to be underlined and click on it with the right mouse button. Then you will be able to chose many different settings. Hope this may help some people here on
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posted on Apr 2 at 2:41 pm
That's great especially for lazy people like me!

just the Smileys don't work :-(
posted on Apr 2 at 3:12 pm
Very cool. I'll add it to the Fuzz Tips and Tricks post!
posted on Apr 2 at 4:21 pm
oh that's cool!
posted on Apr 3 at 5:01 am
SomeVapourTrails [cc: to DifferentStars who sent me here and Clif our friendly superman and supernode]:

I looked at the Firefox link at your BB Code For Dummies blog; and I want to be able to do all this stuff if I can without the BB Coding and/or HTML. However, computer cludge that I am, I still can't figure out how to port the software program over to the fuzz platform to make the "right mouse button" work as you [SomeVapourTrails] describe it.

I will repost this at Clif's blog on Fuzz Tips and Tricks so he may be able to help us computer-challenged folks [unlike Miss Bella who seems to have worked it out immediately].

Actually, if you can make these link functions an easier task, not only would it be heaven, but it would greatly enhance content development on this site.

I know the fuzz folks have this "seamless" linking function [using an embedded HTML code already built in the fuzz platform] on their "to do" list [among hundreds of other stuff - like the "review this comment" box that should appear below every comment box before the "send" button is activated :=)].

But, pending that development, we will have to rely on our own initiatives and the techno-slingers like Clif to lend a helping hand. :=) again.

By the way, all of the links that I made above were done the old fashioned way and it is a pain in the xxx. However, I am convinced that both intra-site and external linking is absolutely critical to developing iterative content and will be, in time, at the very core of the "semantic web" that everyone is now beginning to talk about, so I will keep up.

In the meantime, thanks for the post.

ps. Maybe, I'd better send this note to Goat and the fuzz tech-slingers as well to poke and goose them along. Man, when I started blogging a few months back, I did not know what I was getting into. But, face it, now I'm hooked and "I have seen the future" and I want to be part of it.
posted on Apr 3 at 5:11 am
Did you restart your firefox after installing the BBcode add on? Do you use Firefox as web browser (this add on doesn't work for the Internet Explorer, Opera ....) ???

We need a support forum!
posted on Apr 3 at 10:20 am
Well the BBCode extension should work when you restart Firefox.

Simply write a comment, mark a word and right-click on it:

posted on Apr 3 at 10:58 am
I wrote some custom tags for the Fuzz specific tags: artist, fan, MP3, youtube and mixtape. They're posted offsite since I can't represent the unconverted BBCode here. These can be added under the BBCodes setting menu.

Check it out: http://zenjunk.tumblr.com/post/30696345
posted on Apr 3 at 11:02 am
It should be noted that only the Fuzz supported options on the BBCode context menu will work here (i.e. no font size, make list, code formatting, etc) and that you have to be inside a comment field for the BBCode menu to appear.
posted on Apr 3 at 11:10 am
You guys are awesome - I wanna marry at least one of you :-)
posted on Apr 3 at 1:04 pm
Holy smoke, if you guys were gals and I wasn't married already, I'd want to marry you. I will switch over to the Firefox browser to test this stuff out. I recall that I was using the Evil Empire's Internet Explorer in recent times because it supported Alexa and Firefox didn't, but, hey, if Firefox can do what I think it does with this BB Coding For Dummies and the Evil Empire can't, I will switch back to Firefox in the blink of an eye. I really do prefer Firefox but I thought the fuzz platform seemed to like IE just a little bit better. [Hey, I am using some techno-speak that I had no clue about a few months back - I hope you folks don't laugh if it is not correct.]
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