Forum User Guide - Hints & Tips

[KarlM]

Hello and welcome to the UK-Polos community. Here is a quick guide to help you get the most out of our forum. Here you will find some useful tips which can be used in any PHP forum. So let’s start with the basics.

Profile information -

Under each post there will be a series of icons -

- Click this icon to see the Profile of the user that has posted.
- Click this to send the user a Private Message.
- Click this to see the user's nominated web page.
- Click this link to find out a User's MSN address.
- Click this icon to send the user an e-mail

When filling in the details of your Profile, please include your general location. This will aid UK-Polos organise meetings, events and convoys.

Also you will see Signature. This is the picture you see underneath each users posts. Setting up your signature can be done in your Profile by following the Posing Images guide below. The maximum size for a signature image is 400 x 130.


Posting -

If you wish to post a reply simply click this icon at the top or bottom of the thread.

If you wish to start your own thread, simply click on the icon at the top or bottom of the forum index.


Images – UK-Polos has its own Members Rides section, where our members can display there current car and give a quick run down of the spec. To do this you must first get you pictures onto your computer (by digital camera or scanning the images) and uploaded onto an image hosting site. Most of our members use www.imagestation.com. This is a free site run by Sony that gives you unlimited web space to host pictures. Once you have created a photo album with the relevant pictures in your ready to post up your car!

1. Pick which picture you want to use
2. Right click the picture
3. Select ‘Properties’
4. Look for the URL then highlight this.
5. Hold down keys ctrl & C together
6. Go into your post and write
7. You image will now appear

So it should now read

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[img]http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/enter_site.jpg[/img]

Which will give you –


URLs –
If you are surfing the web and you find a site that you think other may be interested in, then let us know!
When you are viewing the site highlight the full address in the in the address bar then copy it by pressing Ctrl & C. Then start a post. Type in ‘

So you should get [url=http://www.uk-polos.net ] Now type your text here. To close the brackets type in [ / url]
So the finished article should look like this

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[url=http://www.uk-polos.net]UK-Polos[/url]

[/size]

Which will appear in your post like this - UK-Polos


Hope that helps all you new members and remember, if you have a question about any aspect of using this forum, please let us know by placing a post in the Help section

Thanks

UK-Polos Admin Team