How to Make an HTML Table in the Main Header of Your Proboards Site

If you have ever wanted to host a community that's more interactive than the comments on your blog, you can create a forum for your friends with ProBoards, a free forum hosting service. In addition to hosting your forum, ProBoards lets you customize its appearance. You can add images, display text or tables to your forum, so if you want to add a table to your forum's main header, you only need a little HTML knowledge to make it work.

Instructions

1. Log into your forum. Enter your "username" and "password," if necessary.

2. Click the "admin" button at the top of the page to open your forum's Admin Home page.

3. Click the "Headers and Footers" link under the Customize Your Forum section to go to the Select Board page.

4. Choose "Main Header" from the Select Board drop-down menu and click "Continue" to go to the Modify Headers and Footers page.

5. Enter the following code in the Header field:
   <table border="1" align="center">
   <td>Welcome!</td>
   </table>
   This table is an example. You can make any changes you want to it with the proper HTML code. You only need to keep it between the opening and closing <table> tags.

6. Click "Save Changes" to save the changes to your header and post them to your forum page.

References

• W3C Recommendations: Tables
• Web Design in a Nutshell; Jennifer Niderst Robbins; 2006

Resources

• Proboards