HELLO CHAPS

I'm going to make a tutorial here, as although to some of us the features here are self explanatory, some people are not aware of how it all works. So every now and then I'll post a reply with a small tutorial in it.

If there's something you want the next tutorial to teach then just ask.

kthnxbai behbeh.

Inserting Images Into Replies and Posts

Firstly, I'm assuming everyone knows how to reply and post new topics but just for people like my grandma, here's a picture:

Click on reply and New Topic here to reply to the topic you are currently reading, or start a new one. These buttons are in the top right of the screen underneath the main site navigation buttons.

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Okay, so now we've got that sorted out, let's take a bit of a look at what you're greeted with once you decide to post or reply:

Hmm, lots of lovely features here to make our posts and replies look more interesting and personalized.

As you can see, it's all contained in a neat little boxed area, and it will pop up when you decide to click on reply. Now the central white area is where your reply or topic content is displayed, as you can see from my example picture, it is the topic you're currently reading.

We'll go through the buttons one by one and learn their functions eventually, but for now let's learn how to post pictures;

Yep, click on the little picture of a tree.

Once you click on it, this will appear;

Now don't panic, there may be a lot of options, but the only one you need to worry about right now is the one I drew a red box around in that picture. Just paste the URL of your picture into that box, and click on "Insert" in the bottom left. And WHAMMY your picture is in your post.

Now your picture should be displayed in the white middle area of the posting window. If you click on your image you can resize it by clicking and dragging at the corners. You can also delete it by clicking on it and hitting "delete" on your keyboard.

That's all for now folks, more to come.

A More Detailed Look at Replies

Here we'll take a closer look at some of the features in the reply/new topic box. This will help make your posts more personalised and nice to look at .

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Let's start with the really easy peasy business. These buttons will make the type in your message Bold, Italic, or Underlined, respectively. If you highlight a group of text and then click on one of these options, it should format the text in the manner you chose. Also, if you click on one of them, type out the text, and then press enter/return, then it should type out your formatted text and then revert back to normal once you've pressed enter.

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Still on the subject of text formatting, these buttons will change the alighnment of your text. The one at the end, justify, will put spaces between your words so that all sentences are as wide as the page, some people like that. As for the others, they just do to your text what the lines look like.

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These are the Cut, Copy, and Paste buttons. Now, APPARENTLY these features are not available in Firefox. -__- This I do not understand, but whatever. They work like you'd expect in Internet Explorer.

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Find Feature.

Now this needs a little more explanation if you're a beginner at this kind of thing.

If you click on this button, this window will appear;

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Now from this window you can search through your reply to find a particular word or phrase that you've typed up. Just type what you want to find into the box next to "find what" and click "find next". You can keep clicking on "find next" to make it cycle through your reply finding all the entries of the phrase you are looking for. Now if you click on the "replace" tab at the top of this window, you'll get this;

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Now this can be useful. If you type a phrase into the "find what" box, and then another phrase into the "replace with" box, then you can quickly go through the text replacing the first phrase with the second, or click on "replace all" to do it to every instance of the first phrase. This is great for if you realise you've spelt a word wrong like 30 times and don't want to fix it one at a time.

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Okay, back to the really simple stuff. Use this button to change the colour of your text. Click on the little arrow to pick a colour.

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This is the highlighter. It works just like a highlighter pen in real life. Use the arrow to change the colour. Select text and click on the highlight button to highlight it. If you make the highlight colour the same as your text colour, it'll make your text invisible.

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These are the Undo and Redo buttons. I'm sure everyone is familiar with what they do, but just in case, Undo is what you click when you've made a mistake and want to go back to before you made it. Redo is like the undo of undo, if you undo, and then redo, you're back at the same place you were in before you used undo.

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This is the help button. No, it won't take you to Help.com, but it will help you out a bit THEORETICALLY. Personally I've never been too happy with help offered with software. Anyway, I'm sure you won't need that if you've been paying attention.

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More to come soon!

lol awesome, thankies Setto, I also just realized the size of the body of the fawrumz is off and the chat icon is sticking out hehe