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IAM Tips

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Account Information

  • Want to purchase an IAM account? Go here
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  • Bought time? Go here to apply the time to your page. Note that you must scroll to the very bottom of the page to enter your IAM auth code.
  • Have a coupon? A coupon isn't the same as an IAM auth code. Use your coupon here
  • If you are unsure if you've used your coupon yet or not, you can check the status here
  • Need time? Check the bucket

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IAM Specific

IAM Identification

IAM Page

  • Avatar Page Go here to use a photo for your avatar that isn't shown on your IAM page.
  • Custom Layout Go here to create a custom layout for your page.
  • Non-Member Page Go here to create a page non-IAM members can see.
  • Petition Add a petition to your page.
  • Petition Signer Email Use this to get the e-mail addresses of those who have signed your petition. Do not abuse this feature.
  • Colour Chooser This will help you choose a colour scheme.
  • IAM PageFcuk Go here for a fun (though could be nasty) colour tool - go to the FAQ to revert your colours.
  • Backup Colours Click here to backup your current colour scheme.
  • Restore Colours Click here to restore your backuped colour scheme.

IAM Tools

IAM Toys

IAM Forums

IAM Statistics

  • Am I Cool? See your IAM popularity but don't take it too seriously!
  • Hits Leaderboard Click here to see a selection of 100 of the top 250 top hit counter IAMers.
  • Popular (IAM.Alive) This link will show you some of the more popular IAM people by how many iam.alive lists they are on.

IAM Professionals

BME Specific

Submitting to BME

BME Work

Tools

Special Features

Forum Buttons

So you want to make a button for your forum. The first thing you need to do is to create the button. Most people use Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Paint, or GIMP to do this. The ideal size is 100x100 pixels or less. If you can't create the button on your own there are people willing to create them for you. Buttons can be as varied as you want. Once you have your button made you need to do a few things.

  • Upload the button image to IAM. Find the image, right click on it and get the properties, (it's a good idea to open up a sticky note or note pad to paste everything into) copy the URL of the image (http://...).
  • Now you create the code that will go into the image: Button.gif‎ area in your forum.
  • The code will look like this: 
<a href="http://forumurl">
<img src="http://imageurl.jpg" border="0" alt="Alternate text."></a>
  • The text in the first box is where you will paste your forum URL, the second box text is where you will paste the image URL, the Alternate text is where you will type what you want the button to say when someone puts their mouse over it.
  • For example where the URL for a forum is: 
                        http://iam.bmezine.com/iamforum.exe?cmd=chatview&tprm=2j77jzm7v91go30p

                         The image for the Whatever button URL is:

                         http://www.bme.com/temp/whatever-white.jpg

                         And the text that I want it to say is:

                         Whatever
  • The final button code looks like this: 
<a href="http://iam.bmezine.com/iamforum.exe?cmd=chatview&tprm=2j77jzm7v91go30p"><img src="http://www.bme.com/temp/whatever-white.jpg" alt="Whatever">


  • Once you have that, copy it from your notepad/sticky note program into the top button space in the buttons area of your forum. Copy the code under the button window that you just pasted the code into. It will look something like this:
                         **FORUM:2J77JZM7V91GO30P1**
  • Then return to the forum.
  • NOTE: Your button code should NOT have the **FORUM:...** code in it. If it is there the button will endlessly repeat on your page. The button code in the image: button.gif areas should ONLY have the following code:

URL TO FORUM URL TO IMAGE ALT TEXT

  • Now you want to make the code for your forum description which is accessed by clicking this button: image: Edit.gif‎ when in your forum. In the main description area all you really need is the button code that you pasted into the button area (the short cut code will not work in the description) and the forum button shortcut code.
  • Your code can be as simple as this: 
<a href="http://iam.bmezine.com/iamforum.exe?cmd=chatview&tprm=2j77jzm7v91go30p">
<img src="http://www.bme.com/temp/whatever-white.jpg" alt="Whatever" border="0"></a><p>
**FORUM:2J77JZM7V91GO30P1**
  • If you want to make a table for the button so that the button shows up to the left and the code shows up with instructions to the right you can do this (the code in grey is the table code that really shouldn't be changed or else it won't work): 
 <table width="400" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10">
<tr align="center" valign="middle">
<td width="80"><a href="http://iam.bmezine.com/iamforum.exe?cmd=chatview&tprm=2j77jzm7v91go30p">
<img src="http://www.bme.com/temp/whatever-white.jpg" alt="Whatever" border="0"></a></td>
<td width="263">
<p>Copy and paste the code below to put the<br>button at your page.</p>
<p>**FORUM:2J77JZM7V91GO30P1**</p></td>
</tr>
</table>


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