All's working now, sallyanne. And the problem with the message board was not you, it was the software. Oddly enough, when it was installed, it did not allow anyone (but me!) to reply to messages. Go figure! A message board where you can't reply or post new topics!!!

Had a lovely Christmas, yes, thank you. Hope you had the same.

Saludos, MadridMan

Since the upgrade, has anyone experienced difficulty logging in? For example, that you attempted to log in and you got a "Wrong Password" message?

Saludos, MadridMan

Wow!!! I love this new look!!!! It is more user-friendly Great job, MadridMan...

great site MadridMan, Congratulations and Happy New Year guy.
glad to see it evolving in a positive way. take care

Thanks, all! And I see pedmar has found the AVATAR option in the "My Profile" to better personalize your profile in postings. I hope to add to this library a selection of Spain-related avatars as well.

Saludos, MadridMan

MadridMan if i press reset on the shout board will it wipe everything off?
and at the top of the page it says google ads did i see Madrid tapas or was it Madrid tips? because it keeps changing and my eyes aint what they used to be
oh and can you put anything as an avatar? (clean i mean)
amigo de gracias (cant you tell ive just come back from Spain?)

and them there smilies are rubbish
http://smiley.smileycentral.com/download/index.jhtml?partner=ZNxdm117&ac=0

billy the man, by clicking "Reset" on the Shout Box you only erase that which you have written in the text-box, not the contents of the Shout Box, so no problem.

The Google ads at the top change nearly constantly and I have no control over that, nor what ads appear.

And yes, you can choose any avatar. I hope to add more Spain-related Avatars as time goes on. I'll post that news here when I do it.

And I agree, the smilies ARE rubbish. I really dislike them. Thanks for the link. I won't be using those because they require you to download and install a program on your computer, something I won't do just for "smilies", but I will seek others. I'll look into adding others from http://mysmilies.com/

Thanks a lot for your input! And I welcome others, as well.

Saludos, MadridMan

MadridMan can you help please?
when adding a link off the internet i can only copy and paste how do you shorten it
i.e. when you put on link HERE
thanks billy

billy the man, whenever entering a link you can either paste it directly (as everyone already knows) or you can do as I do and others. You can use your keyboard directly if you know the keystrokes. If not, click the box below the text editor box which says, "Switch to Full Reply Screen". From there, you can click the link button for pop-up fill-in-the-blank boxes to more easily show your links as words rather than the long WWW address.

Saludos, MadridMan

absolutley baffled

but i WILL get there
i just hope you cannot read some of the post i deleate trying