I like to differentiate between usergroups. So on my board I have a colour for:

Admins
Senior Staff
Junior Staff
Company staff
Paid membersDo you use username colours?

Yes, they are very handy because they help point out who is staff. For admins I usually make their color Blue, bold, and italicized, for Super mods I usually make them red and bold, and for mods I usually make them green and bold...

i sure do! i have them diffrent to dereks tho.... Admin Super ModModhehe, bet that looks strange to you! lol

A little. I have Admin, SMod, Mod, Benefactor, CMJ Staff

Yeah I have colors for staff names as well. Its kindof cool, and helps point out who is staff. However you have to be careful not to overdo your colors :).

in our board we have color Admin/MOD/SuperMOD .. :)

Yeah I have colors for staff names as well. Its kindof cool, and helps point out who is staff. However you have to be careful not to overdo your colors :).
Especially if you have both light and dark styles.

Some colours look great on a white/light background but you can't read them on a black/dark one and vice versa.

I would prefer making a small icon for the different staff/important members.

On my forum I only have different colors for the staff members. for example moderators have one color, super moderators another, and the administrators have another.

However, if users get 5000 points they are allowed to have a custom color aslong as its different from the admin/smod/mod

That way works well for me, and I like the idea about putting an icon beside the username, but I don't think I can do that with phpBB.

Mark

Ah. vB has pre and post field, so you can wrap them in css or an image before or after, or even both.

I have different usergroup colors:

Admins
Super Mods
Junior Staff (Mods, Writers, etc.)
Contributing Members
Regular Members (normal font)

I would prefer making a small icon for the different staff/important members.
I am a big fan of icons too. But if you only have icons how would people know who is who on the home page etc where icons are not displayed?

Yeah, colors stand out alot more than icons. Plus if you have premium membership than your members will have special icons.

You add them right before or after the username using the pre and post fields. Then they do appear on the index.

Nifty idea. I hadn't thought of that.

But, playing devils advocate again, would it not lead to a rather large who's online box? The number of images would start to stack up after a while. :)

Yeah, especially if you used rectangular images.

Right, but as I said, I like SMALL icons. Trust me, my small is small. lol I work in pixels.

i have color for : admin / super mod / mod

Does anyone know how to add strikethrough for banned members?

For each user group you have the option of adding HTML tags.

Simple use <s> for the opening tag and </s> for the closing tag and that should do the trick. ;)

ahh ha! Thanks