General Terminology

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Hey all,
I thought I'd spend some time outlining general forums terminology for newer/uneducated users. 

1. What's what?
   • On the forums, you have categories, forums, sub forums and child forums. 
     
   • The forums refers to the entire page, all of the sub/child/forums and categories combined together to create the forums, collectively.
     
     
   • Categories are used to categorise(duh) forums, and group them together. "Global". "Servers", and "Miscellaneous" are all examples of categories. 
     
     
   • Each section inside the category on the index page (http://therustycutlass.com/forums/index.php) is a forum. E.g. "The Dump", "Memes" and "Austin's Blog" are examples of forums. 
     
     
   • Sub forums and child forums are the same thing, visibly MyBB (the forum base) calls them sub forums for regular users, but for administrators in the control panel they are called child forums. Sub forums are any forum created inside a forum, which is inside a category, being their children. In the forum DarkRP, "General Discussion", "Suggestions and Ideas" and "Tutorials And How To's" are examples of child forums. Any sub/child forums created in there will also be children. Note: There is no such thing as grandchild forums.
     
2. Navigating the forums
   • Instead of using forward and backward buttons in your browser, you can click the navigation bar on the page to go back a step or two.
     
   • You should see "TheRustyCutlass / Miscellaneous / General Help and How To's / General Terminology" And clicking either of the first three will take you back. First to the forum, then the category, then the index. 
     
   • Clicking on the logo also takes you back to the index.
     
3. Mycode
   • The last thing that you might want to know about, which doesn't really fall under terminology, doesn't need it's own thread, is MyCode. MyCode is MyBB's HTML converted to be used in the forums. It may be difficult to learn if you don't know any HTML, but it's fairly simple.
     
   • If you click help at the top of the page or visit this link http://therustycutlass.com/forums/misc.p...help&hid=7 you should be right.