I was wondering, how do I become a member or junior member, rather than just a "surfer"?

I believe mine changed after I had X amount of posts, I'm not sure how many.

Thank you Valerie :) I'll keep posting !

Wow, that was fast!

I was just wondering how I add some things to my posts like a countdown to jerry's parole hearing, and a picture, kinda new to all of this...lol if someone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated!!

Ok Precious, for a counter you can click here (http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3306) and scroll down, jdswifey explained it and left a link to a site where you can pick up the HTML code you need for the counter.

I'm guessing by "pictures", you mean the little icon some people have under their name? That's easy to do, the small picture is called an avatar. If you have one you like on your computer, you can use that--if it is small enough, it can only be 64 X 64 pixels. Click here (http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3802) and you can read a thread on avatars that danielle posted...it also links to a site with a ton of them, browse thru them and have a look. Once you have one you want to use, simply go into the user control panel and edit your profile page... it says something like "add avatar".... just point it to the picture you want, presto, it'll pop up.

Gosh !!!!! I would have liked to countdown to to Joey's release, and I read jdswifey explanations!!! I will do without counter !!!! :confused:

You know what? I couldn't do the countdown thing either, and I am actually somewhat computer literate!!! (how sad is that! Literate in whose mind right? lol) I got the counter to come up under my sig, but I couldn't figure out how to change the time on it, or if I was even on the right time zone!!! :)

Originally posted by Jeni
You know what? I couldn't do the countdown thing either, and I am actually somewhat computer literate!!! (how sad is that! Literate in whose mind right? lol) I got the counter to come up under my sig, but I couldn't figure out how to change the time on it, or if I was even on the right time zone!!! :)

LOL, yeah it makes you scratch your head a bit doesn't it? I think Michigan is US Eastern Time Zone, so I think you change the bold time inside the code to GMT-0400.

<!--BEGIN COUNTDOWN CODE--->
<center>
<font face=arial size=1><b>Countdown to Whatever:</b></font><br>
<table border=1 cellpadding=4 bgcolor=FFFFBB><tr><td>
<a href="http://escati.com">
<img src="http://escati.linkopp.net/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi?trgb=000000&srgb=00ff00&prgb=221100&cdt=2003;1;1;12;00;00&timezone=GMT+0100;" border=0></a><br>
</td></tr></table>
</center>
<!--END COUNTDOWN CODE--->

Oh and just so there's no copyright brouhaha, I got that script from here. (http://www.escati.com/counter98/free_time_codes.htm) :)

k, another completely ridiculous question here. Let's say I change the time to GMT+0100, and it puts me in Eastern Standard time (right?) How do I make it countdown from February 25, 2003? (I am sure there is a simple solution to all of this, but me being me, nothing is simple! lol)

No, change the time to GMT-0400... that will put you in Eastern Standard time. {Or close to it, I think the time is a bit off at the escati site, that's where the script is from.} If you want February 25th 2003 set as the date, you change this part of the code....

<img src="http://escati.linkopp.net/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi?trgb=000000&srgb=00ff00&prgb=221100&cdt=2003;1;1;12;00;00&timezone=GMT+0100;" border=0></a><br>

see where it says 2003;1;1;12;00;00 ????
that's the date reading, year;month;day;hour;min;second.

Just switch those numbers around inside the code so it reads the date you want... in your case, here's the whole code below changed to what you'd need....

<!--BEGIN COUNTDOWN CODE--->
<center>
<font face=arial size=1><b>Countdown to Whatever:</b></font><br>
<table border=1 cellpadding=4 bgcolor=FFFFBB><tr><td>
<a href="http://escati.com">
<img src="http://escati.linkopp.net/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi?trgb=000000&srgb=00ff00&prgb=221100&cdt=2003;2;25;12;00;00&timezone=GMT-0400;" border=0></a><br>
</td></tr></table>
</center>
<!--END COUNTDOWN CODE--->

Cool! I think I've got it! But, one more question. Where it says "countdown to what", how do I change that? Thanks again! :)

LOL, ooops, sorry I didn't think of that. That part of the code is in bold font below, I don't know what you want to change it to, but just take out the part in bold and type in whatever you want. Other than that it looks good. :)


<!--BEGIN COUNTDOWN CODE--->
<center>
<font face=arial size=1><b>Countdown to Whatever:</b></font><br>
<table border=1 cellpadding=4 bgcolor=FFFFBB><tr><td>
<a href="http://escati.com">
<img src="http://escati.linkopp.net/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi?trgb=000000&srgb=00ff00&prgb=221100&cdt=2003;2;25;12;00;00&timezone=GMT-0400;" border=0></a><br>
</td></tr></table>
</center>
<!--END COUNTDOWN CODE--->


Er...once again, that script and others can be found right here! (http://www.escati.com/counter98/free_time_codes.htm)

You rock!!! Thank you so much!!! :)

LOL, no problem & you're welcome.
Looks good, glad it worked out. :)

Toe, Thanks so much for youe help, I havent figured it all out yet but working on it, but thanks again, u guys are just great, I'm so thankful to Rosebud for telling me about this site!!!

Thanks guys for your help! God bless and keep you safe!