I have now added a feature so you can search the forum from your browser, no longer requiring to go into the search page itself. First you must add the function to your browser search, either IE7 or FireFox browser.

Internet Explorer 7

Ensuring you have just refreshed a page upon the forum, in the top right search box you have a selection menu that you can drop down (image below) which will contain a selection for PTSD Forum. This is how you change between searches in your browser basically.

http://www.ptsdforum.org/images/ptsd4.gif

You can see PTSD Forum with the asterisks beside it, simply choose it and that then becomes your default search. You would have to change this when not upon the forum if you wanted to search the web, as you do when searching between multiple search engines. The end result should be:

http://www.ptsdforum.org/images/ptsd5.gif

And its as simple as that.

FireFox Users

A little more to this one, though gives you better control than IE does. Firstly, when you look in the top right of your FF browser, the search box will have a glow to it when you are upon the forum. This means the forum has a search capability that can be added to your FF search bar. Looks like:

http://www.ptsdforum.org/images/ptsd1.gif

You then drop down that selection box and you will see PTSD Forum can be added, like such:

http://www.ptsdforum.org/images/ptsd2.gif

Click to add the forum as a search capability, you will then see the forum icon in the search bar as your selected search engine of choice, like:

http://www.ptsdforum.org/images/ptsd3.gif

Enjoy!

You just all the bells and whistles here now don't you?

Eeeeek!!!!!! All this new tech stuff is giving me the heebie-jeebies!!!!! I have a mac so all of this won't be working for me....The more technologic this forum gets the farther I feel I will just be left behind....IMHO also a lot of people just won't understand all of this as they are new to computers themselves and/or can't afford anything beyond dial-up as I was for years....and/or cannot afford the equipment to be able to apply all this new technology....I just recently got internet via cable connection and I've had problems occur while trying to upload my art to the "ART" section.......GIVE PEACE A CHANCE

All this stuff exists already, its nothing new. The forum will always have its base, just the way it is, so nothing really changes for anyone who doesn't want to learn.

*giggles* I have to say.. I just love the bells and whistles!

bec