Contact a User
* When viewing a post by the user, click the little envelope icon next to their user name.
* Fill out the form, including the spam checker (asks you to do simple math).
* Click "OK - Send Message"
Contact the Admin
* On the very bottom right, click the yellow "Contact" link
* Fill out the form and click the "OK - Submit" button.
Change Your Password, Email, Signature, Profile
* Click your name in the menu bar:
* On the next screen, you can change your password, email address, and profile details.
* Your profile is NOT viewable to the public for safety and privacy reasons.
Upload an Avatar
* Click your name in the menu bar, then click "add avatar" in your profile.
* On the popup, choose your image file (maximum 100x100 pixels, 25kB, in JPG or GIF format) and click "upload". This must be a file already on your computer, so just download or make one. You can find tons of them by doing a search or use an online avatar maker that resizes a picture that you upload.
* The avatar will appear in the top right corner of your posts.
Report an Inappropriate Post
* Click the "report" link on the bottom right of a post
* Fill out the form and click Submit:
Start a new thread
* Go to the forum index (front page of forum)
* Click the "New topic" link in the menu
* Fill out the subject (title of post) and Message (body of post)
* Then either Preview your post, or post it via "OK - Submit"
Make a Link
* Click the link button in the formatting toolbar:
* On the popup, enter a URL (including the http://) and click OK.
(If you are dragging a website shortcut into this popup, drag it right into the skinny text-input box and not the surrounding area).
On the next popup, enter the text you want turned into a link and click OK. This step is optional, you can leave it blank to create a clickable URL.
* The following code will appear in your post:
* If you left the second popup blank, you will get this code instead:
* You can also just type these codes directly into your post as shown in the above examples.
Reply to a Post
On the forum index, click one of the thread/post titles:
* Click "Post Reply" on the bottom left of the post:
Edit/Delete a Post
* Click the edit or delete links, on the bottom right of your post:
Insert Videos
* Click the appropriate video button:
* Between the tags, put the ID of the video. This will be in the video URL. Examples:
Youtube
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkpbNMHk3Xs
Insert: [youtube]VkpbNMHk3Xs[/youtube]
URL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7242608336050311633#
Insert: [google]-7242608336050311633[/google]
Vlogging The Apocalypse
URL: http://vloggingtheapocalypse.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=372&title=....
Insert: [vlogging]372[/vlogging]
LiveLeak
URL: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0a0_1260942747
Insert: [liveleak]0a0_1260942747[/liveleak]
MetaCafe:
URL: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/244926/ufo_over_china/
Insert: [metacafe]244926/ufo_over_china[/metacafe]
Daily Motion
URL: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9hj8m_ship-flies-over-farm
Insert: [dailymotion]x9hj8m[/dailymotion]
Vimeo
URL: http://vimeo.com/8050573
Insert: [vimeo]8050573[/url]
Blip.tv
URL: http://www.blip.tv/file/2714908/
Insert: [blip]2714908[/blip]
Myspace Video
URL: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1820926
Insert: [myspace]1820926[/myspace]
Vevo Video
URL: http://www.vevo.com/watch/john-mayer/who-says/USSM20901883
Insert: [vevo]USSM20901883[/vevo]
Format the Text in Your Post
When you write/edit a post, on the right is a formatting menu:
These buttons have the following function:
[Bold] [Italic] [Font Size] [Font Color]
[Center] [Quote] [line break] [bulleted list]
[Make Link] [Insert picture from URL] [Insert picture by uploading]
* Highlight some text, then click one of the formatting buttons. This will wrap the text in two tags, like so:
[tag name] text here [/tag name] --- this is standard BBCode. You can type the tags directly once you get familiar with them.
For example:
[b] bold [/b]
[i] italic [/i]
[size=large] large text [/size]
[color=red] red text [/color]
[center] centered text [/center]
[quote] quoted text [/quote]
[br] (line break, for making extra blank lines)
[list]
[*] First bulleted list item
[*] Second bulleted list item
[/list]
[link=http://website.com] Website Name [/link] (linked text)
[img]http://website.com/image.jpg[/img] (image loaded from external site)
Change the Font Color
Highlight the text to color, click on the Font Color button, select the color, and a tag
like [color=#34d] your text here [/color] will appear. The tags are standard BBCode.
Insert an Image from an External Website
* Make sure you have permission to hotlink from the site that hosts the image.
* Then click the image link button:
* Enter the URL of the image and click OK
Upload an Image to insert into Post
* Click the image upload button:
* In the popup window, choose the file on your computer (must end with JPG or GIF) and click Upload.
* Then click on the image you want to insert into the post:
Any questions, please email contact@surfingtheapocalypse.net
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