Congratulations, Stuart!  Woo hoo!!

I'm a frequent visitor cuz I think your site is fantastic.

The next time you see her the injury will be written into the story.  It gets attributed to Gerard just as David Henesy's broken leg was blamed on Jeb.

Patti, the left or right in the shadow tags refer to which side of the text you want shadowed.

[shadow=red,left]TEXT[/shadow]
shadows to the left, or
TEXT

and
[shadow=red,right]TEXT[/shadow]shadows to the right, or
TEXT

and if you want the shadow to be neither left nor right you use
[shadow=color, glow width, #characters wide]TEXT[/shadow]or
[shadow=red, 2, 4]TEXT[/shadow]to get
[shadow=red, 2, 4]TEXT[/shadow]

And to those of you who are leaving this weekend to get an early start on the Festivities, may you have a safe trip and loads of fun!

BrocBaby ,

Marcos has an account on the forum.  You can try emailing him-- look for Mark Branson in the cousins list.

LdyAnne, hope you have a blast!

I was very fortunate because it was MB that introduced me to html and with the first mention of using more than one code he also explained the right way to do it, so it quickly became second nature to me.

To be honest, I was afraid I'd alienate some by offering too basic an explanation and am relieved to see it called "too technical".

Adding a single YABB tag to text or image is pretty easy (I hope you've all tried it in your posts!), but it gets a bit more involved when you want to apply more than one effect to the same text or image.  To add more effects, you need to add more tags to the existing tag, which is referred to as nesting tags.

For example, if you have text you want to italicize, you would wrap your text with an italics tag, like this:
[i]TEXT[/i]
But let's say you also want to bold and underline that same text.  To get those additional effects you'd add more tags:
[i][b][u]TEXT[/u][/b][/i]
The opening tags could have been entered in any order, but the closing tags were added in the exact opposite order, like this:
[tag1][tag2][tag3]TEXT[/tag3][/tag2][/tag1]
Overlapping tags is never a good idea; they can confuse your browser and produce undesirable results in your posts.  Here's an example of overlapped tags:
[i][b][u]TEXT[/b][/i][/u]
So for the best results, the rule of thumb is to close your tags in the opposite order you opened them.  And on behalf of all the mods, thank you!