NEW USER HAS A QUESTION

1. If you edit a post the post date remains the same. If you want to make the post go to the top either post a new post in the topic, or if you use the admin/moderators, button in a topic you can set the topic as a sticky topic so it remains at the top of the list.

2. Mods are written by 3rd parties, usually just people who have modded the forum for their won use and wish to share their mod with others. You would have to contact the authors of the mods you wish to use and ask them if they would work in the latest version.

As 7.95/7.96 only came out in the last 2 weeks, I doubt many mod writters have had chance to update their mods yet.

Absolutely understood.  Thank you both for getting back to me so quickly.  It appears that version 8 has a lot of the improvements I was going to suggest.  I will keep suggesting things from time to time because my goal is to get webwiz known as the best forum for ASP and possibly SQL.  While we are on that subject is there a way to increase the amount of emoticons available for users?

1. emtotions

you can add mre by uploading the images/emotions to the internet then edit the includes/emotions_inc.asp

edit the array verble at the top for each emotion you are adding, and ten add a new emotion at the bottom of the list,

2. the forum description is set to that , but if you edit the database you willl /maybe able ot increase the size of the field its stored in (edit tblForum)

3. avatar size

you can change the height and width of avatars fro within the includes/skin_file.asp

A note on forum description...
You'll notice that the db allows more characters in the field than the data entry form for the field allows.

To prevent sql injection attacks, certain characters and combinations of letters are expanded ti their ascii representation prior to being inserted in the db. As a result, a character in one of these character strings may acrually occupy up to 4 characters in the db.