Here's some basic information that may be useful for those new to the forum.
Note: This is basic stuff and repeats information already on the site. There are links to more detailed VBulletin operations mentioned in some of the posts below.
Adding Pictures and Attachments to your Posting
There are times when you may want to add pictures to your posts. It can be done by linking to other sites, but then the pictures will generally go away after a time or the site will restrict access for Sprinter-source because of too many hits. If the pictures are important to the thread information then they should be loaded to Sprinter-source so they don't go away.
This is one way to do it.
Note: This is basic stuff and repeats information already on the site. There are links to more detailed VBulletin operations mentioned in some of the posts below.
Adding Pictures and Attachments to your Posting
There are times when you may want to add pictures to your posts. It can be done by linking to other sites, but then the pictures will generally go away after a time or the site will restrict access for Sprinter-source because of too many hits. If the pictures are important to the thread information then they should be loaded to Sprinter-source so they don't go away.
This is one way to do it.
Breaking the Quote Box into Sections to Answer PostsScroll down the page until you see "Manage Attachments"
Click on it. You should then see this screen. If you click "Browse" then it will take you to your personal computer files.
Once you are browsing in your personal files then you just search around until you you can click on the attachment you want to add. You can add up to 5 attachments per post. (Just add another post for more pics than 5.) After all the pics up to 5 that you want are added then you click on Upload. After they have loaded, some of the browse buttons will go away. If you are done, then click "Close this window". If you still want to add more attachments then click an open Browse button to keep the process going.
To access the pictures you attached just go to the top of the text box and click the Paperclip.
Once you click it there will be a drop down listing the attachments. First postion your cursor in the text box where you want the first picture to show up. Then you can click on each attachment to place them at the cursor where you want them in the post. If you just load attachments and don't put them where you want, the site default will place them all below your text.
If your pictures (attachments) are too big they will not be uploaded and you will get information about how big they actually are. You will need to reduce them enough to let them be accepted. After some trials you will figure out what works.
Most all printer programs come with some sort of photo editor. Most all PC's have Paint or some other basic program which will work. I usually leave the original file as is by just adding a "sm" (without the quotes, for small) to the reduced file name when I save it. That way you can return to the original file if the changes weren't what you liked.
A couple different descriptions of using Microsoft Paint to re-size pictures.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Resize-a-picture-using-Paint
http://www.wikihow.com/Resize-an-Image-in-Microsoft-Paint
Go to a post and click the "Reply" link. When you look at the formatting, you should notice that all things done with the text begin with something between these [ ]. When you want that special function to stop it ends with those same brackets by including forward slash in front of it like this [/ ].
So if you click the quote link for this post, when the reply box appears, you will see that it begins with QUOTE=Aqua Puttana; and a post number between [ ]. The quote box of Aqua Puttana stops when /QUOTE is seen between [ ] at the very end. Any text before or after those [ ] format triggers will not be shown within the quote box.
When I wish to break up someone's quote to answer in sections I first hit the reply link for the quote.
Once the reply box is shown I copy the beginning [ ] with name and post number. I then go down through the post and create breaks using the return key where needed.
After that I go back and paste the [ ] name/post information at the beginning of the breaks which I created.
I then type or copy a /QUOTE between [ ] to set the end points of the various boxes. Actually I've found that when you try to copy that /QUOTE from the end of a text it often grabs a couple preceding characters which aren't wanted. If you put a space between then that problem goes away. Anyway, I nextpaste those to end each quote box. That sets my spaces between quote boxes to add my reply information.
There may be quicker ways to do it, but that's what I've figured out to do on my own.
Because Mean in Green once pointed out that quoting an entire post adds lots of extra space and extra overhead to replies, I have employed the "..." to shorten/keep my answering posts from becoming (even more) too long.
So if you look at a reply box you will see that a color begins between [ ] and end with /a color between [ ] . Same goes for strikeout, bold, underline, and most other text formatting.
Have fun. vic
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