HOW TO – learning the basics *** Posting ***

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Here is a page provided by the BB forum
http://docs.mybb.com/Posting.html

Everyone loves Smilies, it’s a great way to express yourself and have fun with others.
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click the “new reply” tab >> up pops a new screen



From here you can write your reply message and add smilies (And pictures)
If you look to the left you will see the smilies box
At the bottom is a “get more” tab >> up pops a new window with all smilies options.
http://www.australian-coins.net/misc.php?action=smilies&popup=true&editor=clickableEditor

You now simply decide the smilies you would like to add to your reply
Copy/highlight the code provided with the smilies picture and paste into the original message box
The code looks like this
: heart :
it will appear as a picture in your reply when posted
:heart:

If you would like to know what your reply looks like you can use the “preview post” tab

Adding pictures into your reply

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There are two options for this:

First is Attachments!
>> Add “new attachment”, by browsing your computer and adding a file.
The forum has a 200kb limit for download files
>> “update attachment” adds it the forum >> and “insert into post” to add to your reply.

Attachments will appear as a small picture in you post and to view it larger people will have to click on it and open the file.

[attachment=333]

Second is linking pictures!

Pictures are hosted by other sites.
Most people can use photo bucket

Once you have uploaded your picture to your preferred site you copy the link and add it to you reply.

This is done by either copying the link at the top of you browser or by right clicking the image and selecting properties and copying the Address ULR

Once you have your URL copied
It should look something like this
http://your picture location .jpeg .bmp etc

Click the inset image icon, at the top of the reply message. (it’s the little square with mountains and a circle on it)
some people may have security up and ask if you want to allow the popup to inset image, you then get a box appear at the top of screen and you paste the URL and “ok”

This is probably the preferred method as it takes less space for the forum, and pictures are shown full size.



Playing with text and colour

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Text can be made (Bigger) or (Smaller) by changing the text size, with the "text size" tab option, you can choose from xx small to xx large!
text standard size is small.
Highlight the desired text then click the tab to change size if copying and pasting text into reply.

You can also play with different fonts with the “font” tab
Arial
Courier
Impact
Tahoma
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana Verdana is standard

Colour Colour  Colour
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Colour is changed with the {A} tab, click the arrow for a whole colour selection.
Highlight the desired text then click the tab to change size if copying and pasting text into reply.