Chad

I just went to their web site...sounds like a great organization. I've done quite a bit of volunteer web development for a couple of animal shelters in our area. It's nice to see an organization that focuses on disaster related rescues. What a great idea.

Wow, that's crazy. Soccer would be way worse than softball since there's a lot more running. I played comp soccer when I was in high school. I was always a little bummed that neither of my daughters picked up the sport...although I do enjoy softball as well

Uhg, the smoke is horrible. And my daughter had to play 3 softball games last Sunday in this weather. I was surprised they didn't actually cancel the tournament because of the air quality. I worked for an ISP in El Dorado Hills many years ago

I'm in Placerville....we're neighbors! A cool 110 in Placerville today...

Definitely a big congrats to everyone that has quit smoking. My Dad is dying from COPD and just moved in with my wife and I so we could help take care of him. I can't even begin to express how difficult it is to watch someone go through that. And he still smokes over a pack a day

Unfortunately, all forums eventually have the same problem when they reach a certain size. Just try not to let one bad apple spoil it for the rest of you.

Sorry for the recent troll problem. I'm working on keeping them blocked permanently. If nothing else, for now I've at least made it much more difficult for them to get through. The best approach to take as other members of the site is to just report them and ignore them. Responding to their posts just fuels the fire. Act like they aren't there and I will eventually suspend the account and have all of their posts deleted.

You can send me a personal message and I can change it for you as long as the one you want is available.

I've been asked quite a few times about this. To my knowledge, it's not possible. It would be a nice feature. I'll submit it as a feature request to the company that makes this forum software.

In case you miss the Announcement.... http://www.lapbandforum.com/index.php?showtopic=6832 Enjoy!

As some of you may have noticed, there is a new link to Blogs in the nav bar. All of the members are now able to create their own blog. All we ask is that you try to keep your blog somewhat on topic with Lap Bands, weight loss, etc... You can find some instructions on how to get started here: http://www.lapbandforum.com/index.php?act=...E=01&HID=18 I'm still playing around with Themes and some of the other settings, so things may be getting tweaked as I have more time to play around with the code.

As you can see, the blog module is now installed. Feel free to play around and give it a shot if this is something that interests you. I will be adding additional blog Themes to the site as I have time. :moil: Testing posting a picture (of course, this is what my daughter sent me on father's day)...

Their site probably went down for a little while. Kinda like this one did this morning (oops) :gamer3:

Well, some of the problems have been fixed. Some haven't. I'm still working on fine tuning everything.

I am able to change your "Display Name" that shows on the forum. You will still have the same login, but if you want to change your display name you can send me a PM and I can change it for you.

Yeah, I'm not sure how many people were around and still remember, but when we first launched this forum we had a huge problem with spammers for quite a while. We certainly don't want a repeat of that.

Ok, some of the security rules have been updated. Let me know if anyone is still having problems and getting the dreaded "Forbidden" error. Chad

I'm aware of the forum problems that have been occurring and I'm working to fix them today. I'll keep you all posted. Edit: There seems to be a problem with some of the security rules on the server blocking certain actions on the forums. I should be able to work them all out throughout the day today. I keep very strict security rules on the server this forum is hosted on so this may happen from time to time as the rules are updated against new types of attacks. It can be a pain, but it also protects the forum from hackers/spammers from posting a bunch of junk on here that we don't really want to see Chad

I just read that the "blank screen" is sometimes caused by really large images that are causing the browser to time out. Do you know what the file size is for the image you're trying to upload?

That's not a problem I've heard before. I'll do a little research and see if I can find anything out.

I've raised the number of images allowed to 50 for now. We may be able to raise that in the future. I just want to make sure we have the capacity to scale up as the forum gets more popular. We do want people to be able to post before & after pictures and pictures from their time at the OCC, but we don't really have the capacity to provide something like photobucket.com or flickr.com.

From within the forum you can "subscribe" to topics so that you're updated via email if any new posts are made within that topic. As far as bookmarking goes, using your browser would probably be the easiest solution. I would suggest setting up a new folder in your Bookmarks/Favorites for the forum and just file all of your favorite posts in there. Chad

You probably need to open it in some kind of photo editing software and shrink it down a little. If you need some help, you can email the picture to me at webmaster@obesitycontrolcenter.com and I will help you get it sized properly.

http://www.lapbandforum.com/index.php?showtopic=5317

I think you can only see the avatar when you post. Your profile pic only shows if someone visits your profile or if you actually click on the persons name on the post. For example, if you click on my name over to the left you should see a monkey for my profile pic.