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Acid Mods Community Area => Welcome Guests and New Members => Rules & Announcements => Topic started by: Reaper on August 28, 2007, 02:13:27 PM

Title: Guide on using the forums functions! *EVERYONE READ THIS**IMPORTANT INFO*!
Post by: Reaper on August 28, 2007, 02:13:27 PM

It seems to me that a lot of people can't use the basic functions of this forums, so I will give a quick tutorial...

Linking!

there are 2 ways to link things on the forums
1. Highlight the text you want to link and then click (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/Themes/default/images/bbc/url.gif)
your code should look like this

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[url]The link here.com[/url]
Your result should look like this
www.acidmods.com (https://www.acidmods.com)

2.  The more advanced way to link requires you to manually put in the code.  It allows you to use text that redirects you instead of the link's actual text.
Suppose you wanted to link to the search function, you can type this

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[url=https://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?action=search]Search Function[/url]
This method requres you to type

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[url=*****.com]text here[/url]The result looks like this
Search Function (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?action=search)

Inserting Images

To insert a picture into a post/reply, you need to get the source of the picture, which you can find by right clicking the picture and copying its "image location" (make sure its not copyrighted).  You then paste the source url and highlight it, then click this (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/Themes/default/images/bbc/img.gif) When doing this please make sure the images are not huge.

For instance to get this image

(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen_ALL%2Fimages%2Flogo.gif&hash=de29e61aee552c1fd9a300072e8d35f10b3b3873)

You would need to have this code

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[img]http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/logo.gif[/img]
Inserting youtube videos

In order to embed a youtube video into a post/reply, all you need to do is find the code for the video.  For instance suppose I wanted to insert this video *http://youtube.com/watch?v=y8t5bzSocbc* all you need is the text after the v=
Take that code, copy it into the post/reply and highlight it, then click this (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/Themes/default/images/bbc/youtube.gif)

The code should look like this

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[youtube=425,350]y8t5bzSocbc[/youtube]And the result will look like this

[youtube=425,350]y8t5bzSocbc[/youtube]

Inserting a flash video

Before I show how this is done, please be considerate of other posters if the flash automatically starts, try to keep flash videos in your own new topics.

Take the source url of the flash, highlight it and click this button (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/Themes/default/images/bbc/flash.gif)

Your code should look like this

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[flash=200,200]***Flash url here ***[/flash]
Notice the 200,200 thats the size of the video, i personallt change it to 480,480 to make it easier to see

Heres an example

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[flash=480,480]http://silentwulf.com/flash/Religion%20in%2090%20sec.swf[/flash]
Here is my result

http://silentwulf.com/flash/Religion%20in%2090%20sec.swf

Changing text size, color, location, and other properties

To make text larger or smaller all you need to do is highlight the text and click this (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/Themes/default/images/bbc/size.gif)

The result is this

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[size=10pt]Text here[/size]The default text size of 10 can now be changed.  Try to keep it manageable for others to read.

To change the color of text all you need to do is highlight it and click the drop down menu for change color above the emoticons/smilies

To center, left align and right align text all you need to do is highlight the text and click one of these buttons (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/Themes/default/images/bbc/left.gif) (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/Themes/default/images/bbc/center.gif) (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/Themes/default/images/bbc/right.gif)

To Bold, italicize or underline, the buttons are located at the top left of the list of options. All you need to do is highlight the text and click the appropriate button.

That covers just about everything useful.

Title: Re: Guide on using the forums functions! *EVERYONE READ THIS**IMPORTANT INFO*!
Post by: Reaper on August 28, 2007, 06:16:48 PM

Also, if anyone still needs help, feel free to ask here.  :hifive:

Title: Re: Guide on using the forums functions! *EVERYONE READ THIS**IMPORTANT INFO*!
Post by: josh1991 on November 17, 2007, 09:04:05 AM

how do i put a picture in from my documents  :victory:

Title: Re: Guide on using the forums functions! *EVERYONE READ THIS**IMPORTANT INFO*!
Post by: Reaper on November 17, 2007, 09:36:43 AM

Quote from: josh1991 on November 17, 2007, 09:04:05 AM

how do i put a picture in from my documents  :victory:

you mean upload from your computer to the internet?

go to a site like Photobucket (http://photobucket.com) and they will have instructions for yeah...

Title: Re: Guide on using the forums functions! *EVERYONE READ THIS**IMPORTANT INFO*!
Post by: robin1989 on November 17, 2007, 09:44:27 AM

or you could use the acidmods gallery

AM Gallery (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?action=gallery)

Title: How to make a Good Impression, Search explained
Post by: Timmy on December 08, 2007, 07:30:08 PM

New to the wonderful forum of Acidmods? Then PLEASE for the love of all that is good and logical in this world READ THIS TUTORIAL!!

Now let me just say first off this is 100% NOT a mockery of your intelligence, it is a guide that will help you to make the best possible impression on the community, which is a good thing. Now although our members and staff absolutely 100% do NOT mind answering your questions, we do mind if they have been asked before (x10^100000000000000) err, many times before. HAO DUZ I FIND OUTZ IF MEIN QUESTUN HAZ BIN AZKED ALRUDY??!? Well that is what this tutorial will help you out with, Acidmods has an inbuilt search function that can help you browse past posts of other users  :fear:

Now although the main purpose of this tutorial is using the search function i recommend that you check out Reapers overview of the forum functions:

https://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?topic=8761.0 (https://www.acidmods.com/forum/index.php?topic=8761.0)

Also, Acidmods prides itself on having some of the best written tutorials on the planet so please take them seriously, check out our Wiki full of wonderful modding and hardware tutorials:

https://www.acidmods.com/Wiki/tiki-index.php (https://www.acidmods.com/Wiki/tiki-index.php) (Add to your Favourites NOW)

Now onto the tutorial!!

Step 1:

Open up your default intarweb browser and type in "www.acidmods.com" for your convenience, heres a link: www.acidmods.com (https://www.acidmods.com)

Step 2:

Click the Word "FORUM" on the navbar

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg462.imageshack.us%2Fimg462%2F983%2F63670589ev3.png&hash=ad9ae0ccd7a9a9f5af3a29498e475e7e6280b524) (http://imageshack.us)

Step 3:

Click the Word "Search" on the forum navbar

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg363.imageshack.us%2Fimg363%2F3074%2F96129579hc3.png&hash=3e41f6c014281617f0a6af85f9ed9cb43261cf99) (http://imageshack.us)

Step 4:
You are now in the search function Page!! Now heres how it works, the first action you make, like on any search engine, is type some text relevant to what you want to find out.

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg462.imageshack.us%2Fimg462%2F9874%2F17537186bn7.png&hash=421d9d4b4eaee2133e4567d796082f3cb421995e) (http://imageshack.us)

Step 5a:
There are many options available for making your search a success :D The first is how exact you want your results to be, you can choose to have ALL words searched match or any of the words match, the second being less exact but if the first gets no results then its a good idea

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg409.imageshack.us%2Fimg409%2F5979%2F12536922qw2.png&hash=db8fd99ca73dc8b98cc16493bbcb452460bec8a0) (http://imageshack.us)

Step 5b:
If you know the name of user who has asked the same question while randomly browsing or if you know of someone experienced who may have answered the question before, enter the username of that person in this box, or if you want the most results possible (Probably not a bad thing leave the aterix there

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg356.imageshack.us%2Fimg356%2F5826%2F18319469al9.png&hash=e6dff2c931c70561563c562f7ac87dd36739b683) (http://imageshack.us)

Step 5c:
You can even pick how OLD you want your results to be

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg356.imageshack.us%2Fimg356%2F8258%2F62680287bf4.png&hash=3b2b91a8e5ed61e1f2bac1b67505992df04fc428) (http://imageshack.us)

Step 5d:
Also select if you just want the names of topics searched, or individual messages searched, for more exact results, pick topics

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg253.imageshack.us%2Fimg253%2F2546%2F77241193sg2.png&hash=ce5dd3f30d8bb159af6995d9a1f90e94a4f04a3f) (http://imageshack.us)

Step 5e:
Then select how you want your results ordered, we'll leave more relevant results first there but the other options speak for themselves and why you would use them

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg253.imageshack.us%2Fimg253%2F2272%2F18666090bp4.png&hash=91726e9c70c614a394ad444b36048f81cbfb9f3d) (http://imageshack.us)

Step 5f:
Now heres the big part, WHERE DUZ I WANT RESULTS FROM?? , well you will see a series of text lines and checked boxes, if you want results from everywhere leave them ALL checked, if you want results from say the PSP Section, click "Check All" and they will all uncheck, then check the PSP section

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg356.imageshack.us%2Fimg356%2F5332%2F18833747ja7.png&hash=1b19a812e8170564595722ccb52bd9811dc3add2) (http://imageshack.us)

Step 6:
Click Search

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg455.imageshack.us%2Fimg455%2F5917%2F68048473wn5.png&hash=d0a7112775b8179f78e88cebbebc649d33844f4e) (http://imageshack.us)

Step 7:
Browse Results!!

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(https://acidmods.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg356.imageshack.us%2Fimg356%2F3660%2F57959447td8.png&hash=7b1942427a25b2d3cd5b600be9f11ccce3371873) (http://imageshack.us)

I hope you find this useful, go forth and be a good citizen!!!

Title: Re: Guide on using the forums functions! *EVERYONE READ THIS**IMPORTANT INFO*!
Post by: ravenous31492 on March 01, 2008, 07:33:23 AM

I wanna see the guitar hero video!!! :dribble:
lol

Title: Re: Guide on using the forums functions! *EVERYONE READ THIS**IMPORTANT INFO*!
Post by: H-Sauce on July 12, 2008, 12:30:54 PM

you could add this to the flash part

how to add a slideshow from photobucket.com

first you copie and paste the embed html code in your message

<div style="width:640px; text-align: center;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://w282.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http://w282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/hSaUcPkEeRr/10850643.pbw" height="480" width="640"><a href="http://i282.photobucket.com/redirect/album?action=slideshow&landing=/slideshows&type=3" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn.gif" style="float:left;border-width: 0;" >[/url]<a href="http://s282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/hSaUcPkEeRr/?action=view&current=10850643.pbw" target="_blank"><img src="http://pic.photobucket.com/slideshows/btn_viewallimages.gif" style="float:left;border-width: 0;" >[/url]</div>

get the address that i highlated in bold and copy

then put that addres between the flash tags like this

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[flash=200,200]http://w282.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http://w282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/hSaUcPkEeRr/10850643.pbw[/flash]
which should come out as
http://w282.photobucket.com/pbwidget.swf?pbwurl=http://w282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/hSaUcPkEeRr/10850643.pbw

Title: Re: Guide on using the forums functions! *EVERYONE READ THIS**IMPORTANT INFO*!
Post by: robin1989 on June 10, 2009, 11:16:49 AM

im bumping this as it needs updateing