Tips on how to use the forums (April 2010 Update)

[Deejay100six]

Tips on how to use the post and post reply boxes

This article will help to explain the purpose of the various buttons you will come across when you post a question or reply to a thread and how they can help to make things easier for you. Some of the buttons/functions did not come as standard to our site so some further modifications have been added to make your visit to TnT forums a more user friendly experience.

After you have registered, you will be able to start posting to ask for support or maybe even reply to someone else's request if you think you know the answer to a problem.

We'll start with the buttons across the top of the post reply window.


Bold, Italics and Underline.

From left to right we have Bold, Italics and Underline. The names of the buttons as they have just been typed demonstrates the effect that will be achieved if they are used correctly. These three buttons hardly need an explanation; they work in the same way as in any text editor such as your email program.
To use them just highlight your text and click the relative button.

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Quote

The quote button works in the same way and can be used to illustrate that some text has been copied from elsewhere. Simply highlight your text and click the quote button and the text will appear like this.

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Code


The Code button is used if you want to post a particularly large document or a log file. It compresses the text into a neat little box inside which you can scroll up and down to view the file so that it doesn't take up so much space.

This html document contains 247 lines and couldn't be posted in ordinary text form because of site restrictions but using the code box only takes up the same space on the page as 12 lines.



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List


Next is the List button, which can be used to make bulleted lists;



The result should appear like this;



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Numbered Lists.








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Img (Image).


This button simplifies the posting of image links if you would like an image from a hosting site such as Imageshack or Photobucket to appear in your post.



Now when you click preview or submit, your image should appear......like this.



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URL


The URL button is quite simply for posting links and works in the same way as the Img button but with the added function of being able to make your link (URL) appear as a single word.






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Fonts





This text should appear as Comic Sans MS


The effect is more obvious though if you make it Bold, Blue, Size huge, Comic Sans MS.





To apply colour to fonts, click the font colour button after highlighting the text you would like to be coloured. The colour table will appear above the post reply box. Select a colour by clicking it and the code tags will be added to your text.

Center


This button simply centres your text. Select your text by highlighting and click the Center button. The code will be added.

You can see a good example of the effects of this in The TnT Tektionary.

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Some more buttons have been added since the original publication.

Box=


This one lets you put your text in a nice coloured box.

First highlight your text, then click on the Box= button.

Then, between the equals sign and the square close bracket, add three colours which will be border colour, background colour and text colour, being sure to put a space between each colour, like this.



This function will automatically make the text centred and bold.

If you followed the instructions correctly you should see something like this.

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Smiley


You can put your text in a sign held up by a smiley.

Like this.

Simply highlight your text and click on the Smiley button.

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Youtube


This one is very simple......copy/paste the link to a Youtube page into the reply box, highlight the link and click the Youtube button. The result will be a video watchable right here at TnT........ such as this one.



Happy surfing.

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