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#1 Ayrmoon

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Posted 21 July 2014 - 06:53 PM

Is there a guide for using this forum? Like, how to post pics, videos, use the quote box. For the life of me I can't figure it out (how to do it). For the longest tie, I had a hard time just coping text from word to this forum (but I still get the color html for the text when copied and I have to delete that before I post... gezzz)

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Ayrmoon

Edited by Ayrmoon, 21 July 2014 - 06:54 PM.


#2 IraqiWalker

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Posted 21 July 2014 - 07:03 PM

none that I know of, but check the featured guides section.

Also, for the most part, just mouse over icons to see what they do.

#3 Ayrmoon

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Posted 21 July 2014 - 07:11 PM

lol... I tried the mouse over thing... I moused over "Image" and it wanted a URL address. I moused over "My Media" and couldn't figure out how to use it. I thought it would find a pic on my hard drive so that I could put it into my forum post.

But thanks :) (oh, I do know how to use the emoticons ;-)

Edited by Ayrmoon, 21 July 2014 - 07:12 PM.


#4 Nothing Whatsoever

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Posted 21 July 2014 - 07:27 PM

I'm not sure, I'd need to search, but in the mean time I can share what I use the most.

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The main one I use it the Switch/Toggle. When the Buttons are grey you can see the HTML code used to show items such as the image above, which is simply using [ img] [/img ], for example.

Also here is what is seen with editing a post with the tags that work here
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And if I would like to add a video to a post, I would use that mode to display it. When you toggle back to ungrey the buttons, you will see something like [media][/media] around the video IIRC.

The second one, I use to quickly modify text with a link.


The third one you can use to easily generate the by copy/pasting a linkin the pop-up box.

Those are the main ones I use anyway, for posting. :)

Edited by Praetor Knight, 21 July 2014 - 07:33 PM.


#5 xengk

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Posted 21 July 2014 - 07:33 PM

View PostAyrmoon, on 21 July 2014 - 06:53 PM, said:

Is there a guide for using this forum? Like, how to post pics, videos, use the quote box. For the life of me I can't figure it out (how to do it). For the longest tie, I had a hard time just coping text from word to this forum (but I still get the color html for the text when copied and I have to delete that before I post... gezzz)

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Ayrmoon


Quoting can be easily done by click on the "Quote" button on the post you want to quote.
If you want to quote multiple post, just click the "MultiQuote" button on each of the post you want. Then click on the "Reply to n quoted post(s)" button that pops up on the bottom right of your screen.

If you want add text that not from the forum, click the Quote icon on the toolbar.
A quote tag will be added, and you just need to paste the text between the 2 tag.

Quote

this is a sample quote.


Coloured text is limited to staff of PGI/IGP, it is not available to normal user.

To post image, you must first upload it to an online storage like imgur.com or photobucket.com
You will be provided with a link to your image by the storage site, copy that link and put it in the "URL" field when you click on the Image icon on the forum toolbar.

Video sharing is abit tricky, I never bothered to figure out how to use "My Media".
I use the common forum tag {media} {/media} to link videos. ***you need to change the curly bracket { to square bracket [ for it to work.
Copy the URL link to the video from youtube and paste it between the media tags.


#6 IraqiWalker

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Posted 21 July 2014 - 09:18 PM

Thank you Kon.

Now that I finished braking my fast I will be posting an explanation of sorts of what each of the functions are.

I am reserving this post for that purpose.

Quoting
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Spoilers
Spoiler


Bolding
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Italicizing
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Underlining
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Horizontal Rule
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Linking URLs
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Posting Images
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How to post C-Bill and MC Icons
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Posting Code
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I hope this helps, and others should feel free to add to this. Once that is done, I will pull it all into one guide thread.


EDIT: updating this list as we go. Just added TheCaptainJZ's code mention.

Edited by IraqiWalker, 22 July 2014 - 01:31 AM.


#7 TheCaptainJZ

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Posted 22 July 2014 - 01:03 AM

You can use the code button to enclose text so it is not read by the forum as actual code like this:
[url="http://google.com"]http://google.com[/url]

Instead of all this talk about curly braces :)

#8 IraqiWalker

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Posted 22 July 2014 - 01:25 AM

View PostTheCaptainJZ, on 22 July 2014 - 01:03 AM, said:

You can use the code button to enclose text so it is not read by the forum as actual code like this:
[url="http://google.com"]http://google.com[/url]

Instead of all this talk about curly braces :)

Exactly, thank you. Forgot about that one.

EDIT: added it to the "master list" in the previous post

Edited by IraqiWalker, 22 July 2014 - 01:31 AM.


#9 Ayrmoon

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Posted 22 July 2014 - 01:23 PM

Thank you all so much! This really helps a lot. Looks like I'm in need of a PhotoBucket account. I'll have to look into that and I printed this thread so I can have it on hand ;)

This is one of the reasons I like this community so much. All the help and friendliness.

Really, than you all again :) ( smiley face, the one thing I knew how to use... lol )

Edited by Ayrmoon, 22 July 2014 - 01:24 PM.


#10 Spike Brave

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Posted 22 July 2014 - 05:04 PM

I didn't see any mention it, but this seems to be a WYSIWYG similar to Dot Net Nuke or Wordpress. I wouldn't copy from Word as it tries to add what it thinks you need to the HTML (stop helping Microsoft) instead use notepad it won't add any weirdness.

Edited by Spike Brave, 22 July 2014 - 05:04 PM.


#11 Ayrmoon

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Posted 22 July 2014 - 07:29 PM

Nice suggestion Spike Brave! Thanks, I'll try that next time ;-)

Ayr

PS: You may have noticed, because of this thread (and all of the help I received here) I was able to post those pics about "A Master Mech" for you to see. I'm so proud of myself.... lol :P

Edited by Ayrmoon, 22 July 2014 - 07:33 PM.


#12 IraqiWalker

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Posted 22 July 2014 - 08:39 PM

View PostAyrmoon, on 22 July 2014 - 07:29 PM, said:

Nice suggestion Spike Brave! Thanks, I'll try that next time ;-)

Ayr

PS: You may have noticed, because of this thread (and all of the help I received here) I was able to post those pics about "A Master Mech" for you to see. I'm so proud of myself.... lol :P


Congrats, and we're happy to help.

#13 Pekiti

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Posted 24 July 2014 - 02:20 PM

View PostAyrmoon, on 22 July 2014 - 01:23 PM, said:

Thank you all so much! This really helps a lot. Looks like I'm in need of a PhotoBucket account. I'll have to look into that and I printed this thread so I can have it on hand :D


Look into Imgur for a free photo hosting account. I have found it to be simpler to use and its very forum friendly.

#14 IraqiWalker

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Posted 24 July 2014 - 08:47 PM

View PostPekiti, on 24 July 2014 - 02:20 PM, said:


Look into Imgur for a free photo hosting account. I have found it to be simpler to use and its very forum friendly.


Yes. I agree. Imgur is a good one as well. Requires less involvement (you need to create a photobucket account, while you can just immediately upload to imgur)

#15 ExoForce

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Posted 24 September 2014 - 02:45 AM

View Postxengk, on 21 July 2014 - 07:33 PM, said:


Copy the URL link to the video from youtube and paste it between the media tags.



xengk, how do You activate Free Camera View?

Please, beg, will serve for that info !!!!

#16 xengk

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Posted 25 September 2014 - 01:50 AM

View PostExoForce, on 24 September 2014 - 02:45 AM, said:


xengk, how do You activate Free Camera View?

Please, beg, will serve for that info !!!!


Have a VERY laggy Internet connection.

#17 ExoForce

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Posted 25 September 2014 - 09:03 AM

Are You serious? I can slow down my connection but...

#18 IraqiWalker

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Posted 25 September 2014 - 09:06 AM

View PostExoForce, on 25 September 2014 - 09:03 AM, said:

Are You serious? I can slow down my connection but...

It's kind of a luck thing. There have been people who had it happen to them before. However, it's not a feature that players are allowed to use right now. This is a glitch that happens when a player is somehow given spectator privileges by accident.

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Posted 25 September 2014 - 09:10 AM

Thanks, Ive founded Your other thread on this topic.





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