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| I love MJNet | Jan 18 2008, 05:24 PM Post #21 |
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And from an image that was far too large to post you get if you go for the 640 option:
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| I love MJNet | Jan 18 2008, 05:24 PM Post #22 |
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This is from the 320 option.
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| I love MJNet | Jan 18 2008, 05:25 PM Post #23 |
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And so you are ready to post your image on a message board. Well this is where Photoshop have made it exceptionally easy! Beneath your pictures you have a series of 4 options. The last one is all you need to worry about.
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| I love MJNet | Jan 18 2008, 05:25 PM Post #24 |
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Just click over the last option and you should get a little message popping up saying COPIED. Just then come into the reply box on the message board, and paste your link. To paste, simply right click your mouse with your cursor in location and click on the paste option listed. You should get something looking like the red underlined section then showing up.
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| I love MJNet | Jan 18 2008, 05:25 PM Post #25 |
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Hit add reply once you've finished and hopefully you've now got a correctly sized image showing up.
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| I love MJNet | Jan 18 2008, 05:48 PM Post #26 |
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Using an Avatar and a Signature. This is going to be a two fold tutorial, the first section to explain about how you can use your avatar. The second will be about your signature. Avatar: First of all, a little about how a picture is "seen" on a computer and what we are looking at to change the sizes etc. A digital picture (whether from a camera, a scanner or even a mobile phone) is made up of tiny pin pricks of image. These are known as Pixels. Limitations of the Avatars on this board: The limit we have set for this board is 150 x 150 in pixels, and the file size must not exceed 35 kb (this is the maximum board limit and we cannot increase it!). We also ask that avatars avoid too much movement. Some can be triggers for people who are epileptic for a start, and they can slow the load speed of a page for dial up users. This is a tough one to quantify, but we just ask a little common sense is applied. If you have high speed movement graphics, then please do not include them. Slower speed graphics are more acceptable and less likely to be a problem. Sparkle and glitz (while perhaps not to everyones taste) should be okay, but again as long as it isn't whizzing about at breakneck speed! You can change your avatar settings by going to your control panel. You can get there a couple of ways. First, just click on the link shown in the drop down menu that appears when you move across the Preferences link. Click on this image for a larger one to show this. ![]() Alternatively just click on the Change profile option. Then just follow the text link Change Avatar from there. Either route you should find yourself looking at a screen something like this: ![]() There are some default images in the folders available for you to use. Once you've clicked on a folder, you can access the others via a drop down menu found below the images. Once you find an image you like, click on it, allow the board a little time to load it and then it should appear on your left side of the page. Alternatively you can upload an Avatar you already have on your computer or link from one online. Again, please remember if you are using one from Online - DO NOT link directly to someone else's avatar unless you have permission! If you want to, host it yourself using a free hosting service like Photobucket or Imageshack. To do otherwise is frowned upon and can cost another person a lot more money than they should be spending to host a site if their bandwidth is being taken, and most sites now have blocks on their images stopping them from being used. If you don't want an avatar at all, you can simply click on the remove button below the avatar shown on the left side of the page. Edited by I love MJNet, Jan 19 2008, 01:29 PM.
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| I love MJNet | Jan 18 2008, 06:11 PM Post #27 |
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Now onto your signature A signature can have either text, images or both. Again, we have a size restriction in place although the image size can be a little more flexible here, and so we'll look at each case on its own merit if you want to have something larger because we know some monitor sizes now allow for larger pictures. However, this is also to allow dial up users better access - and yes, we still have dial up users for a number of reasons. No signature can be over 650 pixels wide by 150 pixels tall. That's 650x150. Pixels are the measurement used for all images. Banners made before this announcement and already in use are not going to require changing, just any new ones made. Please ensure when you make a banner it falls into this limit. If in any doubt what a banner of this size would look like, here is an example. ![]() No more than one Banner image please! We don't want images stacked up on top of each other - Some sites might allow it, but we wish to try and ensure even minority users on dial up are able to use the site more readily. Please not to much movement in a banner! Again there is a genuine reason for this, and that is some images have been known to trigger epileptic fits. This is a tough one to quantify, but we just ask a little common sense is applied. If you have high speed movement graphics, then please do not include them. Slower speed graphics are more acceptable and less likely to be a problem. Sparkle and glitz (while perhaps not to everyones taste) should be okay, but again as long as it isn't whizzing about at breakneck speed! If in doubt, just ask us via PM and we'll have a look for you. Like your avatar, you can click on the link from the drop down menu from the Preferences link. ![]() Alternatively you can find it within your Change Profile options - again like your avatar. ![]() Once there, you find an area very similar to your posting screen on the board. In these screen captures it shows how the text and image look as seen for my signature. Also the code needed to center your text and image if you want to. ![]()
Edited by I love MJNet, Jan 19 2008, 01:27 PM.
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| I love MJNet | Jan 20 2008, 04:12 PM Post #28 |
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Sending messages to other board members. The board offers two options to send messages to other board members. The first method is via PM's. A PM stands for a Personal Message. While it is possible to use various techniques to hack into a PM system on a board, here we are completely anti such hacking techniques, and so no PM's between members are ever accessed and are completely private. The only time we would see a PM is if someone forwarded one because of content or other issues they wished us to deal with. We most certainly don't access them any other way. The other option is Email. Now this means a log of the email is made on the boards system. Prior to sending, you are given a standard warning about this, so the use of it is at your discretion. However, we wouldn't read emails unless there is a need to for clarification purposes over problems between members and only then once the member/s involved are informed of this action. It would never be done without knowledge of the members. It is important to us as a board that personal and private information between members is just that. Trust is an important part of a board such as this, and we know that if we did break the trust expected of us as Administrators, it would be detrimental to the entire board, as well as morally reprehensible. |
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| I love MJNet | Jan 20 2008, 04:28 PM Post #29 |
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Using the Email system. You have the option to allow others on the board to email you. To set your preferences, go to your update profile section (see the Profile help section for more details if unsure how to get there). Once there, click on the Email settings as seen on the left. ![]() Now you have two options - A green tick will allow you to receive Emails, no tick will stop them. We would ask you allow the board administrators to send you email - We try not to send out many, but often it is because we have an important announcement about the board when we do and so you're less likely to miss out on something if you have allowed us to send it to you. Just click on Save settings to save your preferences. These can be changed at anytime.
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| I love MJNet | Jan 20 2008, 04:29 PM Post #30 |
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Using the PM system. Using the PM System. A PM is something you can accept to receive from the board. You will know if there is a PM in the system for you one of two ways. The first is a small pop up that should appear in the bottom right corner of your screen. ![]() The other way to see if you have a PM is via the top right of your screen where it will show if there is a message in your Inbox.
Edited by I love MJNet, Jan 21 2008, 12:58 PM.
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