Customize My Signature

[+Shasties]

Boy, am I screwing up somewhere. I cannot, for the life of me, customize my signature in my profile. Yes, I am a premium member. Yes, I do enter my password to make the changes.

 

I'm trying to add several hyperlinks in my profile to direct people to my coin collection page and a site that has a picture of our new coin. I can get the text to show up, but no matter what I do, I cannot get the text to hyperlink.

 

It's in the form of

 

(a href="http://www.thecachingplace.com/Cachunuts/CoinTrade/showlist.asp?type=2&owner=27") Our Coin Collection (/a)

 

where the ( is actually < and where ) is actually >. Someone told me to use a [] in place of the <>, but that doesn't work either.

 

Does anyone know what the heck I'm doing wrong? The link itself works OK when I paste it in the address. It looks like I'm following proper HTML programming (I think). The text will show up, it just doesn't hyperlink.

[+Sputnik 57]

The forum doesn't use standard HTML tags. You have to use the URL code instead of href. From my sig:

Visit [url=http://home.houston.rr.com/gpsr/]The Garmin Map60CS/76CS FAQ[/url]

Edited November 21, 2005 by Sputnik 57

[Keystone]

Sputnik's format is correct. The forums use UBB Code, not HTML.

[+Shasties]

OK, I tried writing in UBB rather than HTML and I'm still brain-dead for some reason. What I have is listed here

 

[url=http://www.thecachingplace.com/Cachunuts/CoinTrade/showlist.asp?type=2&owner=27] Our Coin Collection [/url] - [url=http://photobucket.com/albums/d120/Shasties/?action=view&current=OurCoin.jpg] Our New Coin [/url] - [url=http://www.mi-geocaching.org/] MiGO [/url]

 

Am I just not seeing my mistake or what? If I try posting this without the CODE brackets, it turns to hyperlinks and takes me to where I want to go, so methinks it's written OK. Just won't work as part of my profile.

Edited November 23, 2005 by Shasties

[+Sputnik 57]

Try taking out the spaces before and after the text next to the bracketed codes. UBB is pretty persnickity. Although the forum software sometimes helps you out by stripping spaces, it doesn't always work.

[+New England n00b]

Are you clicking on the Forum button on the left column? If you don't, it wont transfer the changes to teh forum.

[+Shasties]

Are you clicking on the Forum button on the left column?  If you don't, it wont transfer the changes to teh forum.

Not sure which forum button you're talking about? I've been making changes to my main GC profile.

 

EDIT - If you're talking about the MENU column when I click on my name at the top of the page where it says

 

Logged in as: Shasties (Log Out)

 

yes this is where I go. It takes me right to my GC profile page.

Edited November 23, 2005 by Shasties

[+Markwell]

One of the other other problems is that you're trying to put an image into your signature. Images aren't allowed. Only text and links.

[+Markwell]

So here's a better signature code:

 

[url=http://www.thecachingplace.com/Cachunuts/CoinTrade/showlist.asp?type=2&owner=27]Our Coin Collection[/url] - [url=http://www.mi-geocaching.org/]MiGO[/url]

 

Which will produce this:

 

Our Coin Collection - MiGO

[+Shasties]

So here's a better signature code:

 

[url=http://www.thecachingplace.com/Cachunuts/CoinTrade/showlist.asp?type=2&owner=27]Our Coin Collection[/url] - [url=http://www.mi-geocaching.org/]MiGO[/url]

 

Which will produce this:

 

Our Coin Collection - MiGO

I cut and pasted your code directly into my profile. Must be it's taking a while to update the info, because my profile hasn't changed yet. As I mentioned above, when I put this coding into the body of my post, It hyperlinked everything as it should have done. Just doesn't seem to work when I insert it into my profile. I'll keep trying.

[Keystone]

After you update your profile, are you clicking on the Forums update link so that your new information on the Geocaching server synchronizes with the separate Forum server? If you don't do that, and instead just follow a bookmark or type in the address bar to get back to the forums, you'll never see your new info. appear.

 

The only other possibility I can see is if you are forgetting to enter your password when you update your profile.

 

Profile changes should be instantaneous, and the forum update is likewise immediate after you pass through the synch page.

Edited November 23, 2005 by Keystone

[+Markwell]

[+Shasties]

After you update your profile, are you clicking on the Forums update link so that your new information on the Geocaching server synchronizes with the separate Forum server? If you don't do that, and instead just follow a bookmark or type in the address bar to get back to the forums, you'll never see your new info. appear.

 

The only other possibility I can see is if you are forgetting to enter your password when you update your profile.

 

Profile changes should be instantaneous, and the forum update is likewise immediate after you pass through the synch page.

Back to this again.

 

I am entering my password and it says that I've updated my information, but...

 

As far as the 'Forums update link', I haven't done this. I assumed (my first mistake) that updating my profile carried over to the forums. I've looked for the link but have not been able to locate where it is at. Can someone point a blind guy in the right direction? Thanks.

[Deego]

<--- click

 

Its on the left side of all pages on geocaching.com.

Edited November 30, 2005 by Deego

[+Shasties]

THAT GOT IT! Finially! Thanks so much, I thought I was the only one in the world who couldn't figure this out. I use the BACK button and my links so much I never go back through the page links. Thanks again

Edited November 30, 2005 by Shasties

[+carhawker]

I found the answer to my question in the FAQs.

 

Imagine that.......lol

 

Thanks guys!!

 

- RG