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Download PDF This tutorial will guide you to get a color nick name on Windows Live Messenger.
You can still use the old MSN Color Codes we used with MSN Messenger. But in addition to that Windows Live Messenger provides some additional features. It allows you to use HTML color codes, gradient text and gradient background.
Note that you need to have Messenger Plus! Live installed to view the color nicks.
You can download it from here:
Download Messenger Plus! LIVE
There are two ways to color your msn nick name. You can use the Messenger Plus GUI interface or you can put the color codes directly.
First we will discuss how to color your nick with the GUI.
Open your Windows Live Messenger (WLM). Go to Menu > Tools > Options…
Here is where we gonna play with the nick name coloring
Clicking Format Codes… button brings up the color codes and other formating options (bold, italic, underline etc.. )
Clicking on the T button (Text Color Mode) brings the menu to select the formattiong mode.
The options are:
Text: Select this option to edit the text color.
Gradient Text: Select this option to get a gradient effect on the text.
Background: Select this option to edit the background color of your nick.
Background Gradient: Select this option to get gradient effect in background.
Lets first learn how to color the nick text. We will make it red.
First switch to Text Mode.
Now pick up the color we want from the color chart.
Click on Ok.
And we have a red nick.
Now lets see how to add a background color to it. We will make it black
First we need to select Background mode.
Pick ot the background color from the color chart. (we are selecting black)
And our nick now got a black background.
If we want to make it Bold…
Click on the B (bold) button
… and we have a bold nick.
Same way goes Italic, Underline and Strike Out
And what we have applying all three…
Now lets try out some advanced stuffs.
We will give our nick text a gradient effect.
First we need to select Gradient Text
For gradient text we need to choose two colors. The starting color, and the ending color.
After selecting Gradient Text click on the starting color from the color chart.
We are selecting green.
Note that after selecting the first color formating code buttons gets faded/disabled.
Now click on the ending color. We are selecting red here.
Click on Ok.
And we have our nick…
Now we will try gradient background.
First switch to the Gradient Background mode.
Click on the starting color from the color chart.
We are selecting green.
Note that after selecting the first color formating code buttons gets faded/disabled.
Now click on the ending color. We are selecting red here.
Click on Ok.
And we have our nick…
We can make the nick text white on the background we already have.
Switch to text mode.
Select white from the color picker.
And here is what we get
You have now learnt how to color your msn nick using the messenger plus gui tool.
You can also get these colored nicks by using the color codes directly.
These codes work like forums bb codes. The format is like:
[control-code]content[/control-code]
ie. you wrap up the content with the control code.
Now lets learn the control codes.
Text Color: [c=#]Nick name[/c]
# is the mirc or HTML code for color. (you need to include # when using html color code)
Example: [c=#1F499B]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/c] or [c=13]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/c]
Background Color: [a=#]Nick name[/a]
# is the mirc or HTML code for color. (you need to include # when using html color code)
Example: [a=#1F499B]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/a] or [a=13]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/a]
Bold: [b]Nick Name[/b]
Example: [b]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/b]
Italic: [i]Nick name[/i]
Example: [i]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/i]
Underline: [u]Nick Name[/u]
Example: [u]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/u]
Strike Out: [s]Nick name[/s]
Example: [s]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/s]
Gradient Text: [c=#1]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/c=#2]
Here #1 is the starting color code and #2 is the ending color code. include the # if using HTML code.
Example: [c=3]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/c=4]
Gradient Background: [a=#1]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/a=#2]
Here #1 is the starting color code and #2 is the ending color code. include the # if using HTML code.
Example: [a=3]dotcomUNDERGROUND[/a=4]
Here is an example nick:
[c=0][a=#1F499B][b] dotcomUNDERGROUND[/b][/a][a=#666666].com [/a][/c]
The output will be:
Here is a HTML Color Code Chart:
HTML Color Code Chart
April 27th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
yassine tecktonik
April 26th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
msn plus
April 19th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I DID IT !! I DID IT !!
OK first u hav to download the NEWEST VERSION of msn wich is called MSN PLUS LIVE
u can download in here: http://www.msgpluslive.net/download/
and afta u download jus type in the code shown up
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March 28th, 2008 at 5:38 am
mine doesnt have this ? why?
ive dowloaded this msn but it doesnt have this!!
March 24th, 2008 at 8:28 am
CAN YOU PUT COLOUR CODES ON YOUR PM ?
BECAUSE I KNOW SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE
WHAT ARE THE CODES FOR THEM ?
ADD ME ..
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March 21st, 2008 at 7:29 am
I don’t get the color ‘FORMAT CODES” thing when I open up my msn options
March 6th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
does anyone know how u change the colour of the personal message??
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:07 am
HOw do i Dowload this???
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:51 pm
iM A Bi MiXED RACAA XX ADD ME NE1
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ALSO ADD MEH M8
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TAHH
February 17th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
i ahvnt got msn plus so all i really want to know is the diff code like [c=1] hello [/c] <<black
thts all i kno
plz can u put on the codes so i can use them and my mates will see it in colour