HOW TO POST

[Landis]

Introduction
Some of you out there might not be as familiar with this whole forum thing as others, so, I thought I would clear up a bit of confusion with a quick tutorial. Before you contiue you should know that in order to post anything within the forum you must first be a registered user and be logged in. This is ofcourse both easy and free.

Posting Images
Posting images is easier than you might think. Lets get started...

STEP 1
Start out by clicking on the "REPLY" button within the topic you wish to post an image in. If you want to post an image in a new topic of your own than click the "NEW TOPIC" button instead.

STEP 2
Next type what you want to say and then place the cursor where you would want your image to appear within your message.

STEP 3
If you have a website and have uploaded your image to the server that hosts your site then type out the link to your image file. It might look something like "http://www.website.com/yourimage.jpg" (without the quotes).

If you dont have a website but still want to post an image than all you have to do is use a free image hosting service to host it for you. The most popular is http://imageshack.us/. You dont even have to register with them. Just go to the website and click on the "browse" button. Point to the image on your hard drive and click "open". Next click "Host it". The image will then be uplaoded to the imageshack server. When its finished it will provide you with a number of links to copy from, go ahead and copy the link from the one that says "Direct link to image" and paste it into the post where you want the image to show up.

STEP 4
Highlight the link within the post and click the little square button above the text field that says "Img". This will put a special image tag at the beginning and end of your image link to be read by the forum. It might look something like " Image Link" (without the quotes).

THATS IT!
Finally click on the little square button that says "Submit". You will then be brought back to the topic you were posting in. Your images wont actually show up within the topic, instead their will be a link that says "Image Link" that will open up your image in a new window when clicked.

Posting Videos
Posting videos is pretty much the same except you wont be able to use imageshack to host your videos because they only support image files. Lets get started...

STEP 1
Start out by clicking on the "REPLY" button within the topic you wish to post a video in. If you want to post a video in a new topic of your own than click the "NEW TOPIC" button instead.

STEP 2
Next type what you want to say and then place the cursor where you would want your video to appear within your message.

STEP 3
If you have a website and have uploaded your video to the server that hosts your site then type out the link to your video file. It might look something like "http://www.website.com/yourvideo.mov" (without the quotes).

If you dont have a website but still want to post a video than all you have to do is use a free file hosting service to host it for you. Once you have found a free file hosting service and have uploaded your video file to their server they should provide you with a link to your video. Go ahead and copy the link and paste it into the post where you want the video to show up.

THATS IT!
Finally click on the little square button that says "Submit". You will then be brought back to the topic you were posting in. Your videos wont actually show up within the topic, instead their will be the link that you pasted earlier that will open up your video in a new window when clicked.

Hope this helps.
-Landis