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Forums / Threads / Posts
In this helpfile you will learn everything about topics, this will be another big help file so go get a cup of tea or coffee and sit back and relax, could be a idea to print this out to read this since its going to be pretty big.
Forums
Forums is what makes up an actual “Forum” like golfwrx these “forums” are used to make different “threads” and the forums are for different ideas and interests and one and be used from a completely different reason then another. There are many forums on golfwrx, sometimes it can be hard to know where to post your thread but if you look closely there is always somewhere to post your content. Once you click the forum a list of all the topic ( threads ), come up with there information. At the bottom is a legend for the different icons ( new topic, new replies, hot topic etc...). You can also reorder them by many different varieties. To make a new topic or poll click the button to make a new one.
Topics ( Threads )
When making a topic you need to give it a name and also if you want a description for example “ My Golf bag - Has lots of clubs “ Now there is a post box which also on the left has some smilies you can use and on the top of the box some frequent BBCodes
BBCodes
Bbcodes are used instead of regular raw “HTML ( Hyper Text Markup Langauge)”, this is done so that hackers and crackers have a hard time cracking/hacking your forums as HTML lies some security risks. Instead we used tags like “ [BBCODE] Content [/BBCODE]” all bbcodes need to be in {} and ending a bbcode needs [/]. There is almost every bbcode you can think of in place of html and here are some frequent ones.
To post a url:
DISPLAY TO USERS
To post a IMG ( From a outside source ).
PHOTO URL
To post a email
email@email.com
For quotes
Spoiler
Now all of these are already in the post box in little button near the top of the box and it will do it automatically for you in most cases. So bold something use Bold Text , to underline something use Underlined
Smiles ( Emotions )
To use smiles click the left box of the emotion you want to use and it will put a code into the postbox for email :) or :D or :( there are many codes so no worry to try to figure that out. You can also click to reveal all the smiles that we offer and if you do have a special one that you like you can use the IMG bbcode to include it into a post.
Postbox
Now you can write your content you can use the bbcodes and emotions and anything else you want to, to make your post.
Spoiler Tag
This is a great little feature that can pack a lot of boom. What it does is allow the poster to use the spoiler tag by click “Spoiler” for the
Topic Making Spell Checking
Ok, so you just made a topic it could be one sentence or 100 paragraphs and you want to make sure the spelling is good. You just click the “Spell Check” button and a popup will occur ( Make sure you have javascript enabled ). Then when the popup has loaded go through your work and fix the spelling, when your done click “done” and your post will be updated.
Upload Picture Directly To Post
Golfwrx allows you to directly add pictures to post using the attachment feature. We also let you upload up to 8 pictures at a time, to do this go post a topic or post something in a thread and go to the attachment place of the post/thread and browse what you want to upload after that click submit and the files will be uploaded into the thread.
Watermarking Photo’s
The water marking feature is a very useful feature crafted by Scott Oldford. It allows you to upload pictures to threads or posts with the Golfwrx picture in it meaning that the when the photo is posted it will be automatically watermarked so that you don’t have to do it manually. This feature is a yes/no feature meaning you can turn it on/off and you can upload up to 8 photos at a time. To use this feature go to post a topic or a regular reply add the attachments then click yes to turn on the watermarking. When it has posted the pictures should be watermarked with the golfwrx logo. The feature is very easy to do but prevents stealing information and is something that is very helpful and saves a lot of time.
Similar Threads v1.0
The similar thread’s system allows you to look at five other threads that have the same keywords as the topic your viewing this allows you to go to other topics that are related easily. You can do this by entering a topic then at the almost very bottom. You will see a box there with the last five topics. Everything is pre-searched when you go in a topic and all you have to do is click the link to go to the topic. All in all it is a great system and very useful and something that many people use a lot.
Topic Options
At the bottom of each topic, there is a 'Topic Options' button. Pressing this button will expand the topic options box.
From this box, you can select from the following options:
Track this topic - this option will allow you to receive e-mail updates for the topic, see the 'Email Notification of new messages' help file for more information on this
Subscribe to this forum - will allow you to receive e-mail updates for any new topics posted in the forum, see the Notification of new messages' help file for more information on this
Download / Print this Topic - will show the topic in a number of different formats. 'Printer Friendly Version' will display a version of the topic that is suitable for printing out. 'Download HTML Version' will download a copy of the topic to your hard drive, and this can then be viewed in a web browser, without having to visit the board. 'Download Microsoft Word Version' will allow you to download the file to your hard drive and open it up in the popular word processing application, Microsoft Word, for viewing offline.
Poll Options
If you have chosen to post a new poll, there will be an extra two option boxes at the top of the help screen. The first input box will allow you to enter the question that you are asking in the poll. The text field underneath is where you will input the choices for the poll. Simply enter a different option on each line. The maximum number of choices is set by the board admin, and this figure is displayed on the left.
Editing Posts
Above any posts that you have made, you may see an 'Edit' button. Pressing this will allow you to edit the post that you had previously made.
When editing you may see an option to 'Add the 'Edit by' line in this post?'. If you tick this then it will show up in the posts that it has been edited and the time at which it was edited. If this option does not appear, then the edit by line will always be added to the post.
Fast Reply
Where it has been enabled, there will be a fast reply button on each topic. Clicking this will open up a posting box on the topic view screen, cutting down on the time required to load the main posting screen. Click the fast reply button to expand the reply box and type the post inside of there. Although the fast reply box is not expanded by default, you can choose the option to have it expanded by default, from the board settings section of your control panel. Pressing the 'More Options' button will take you to the normal posting screen.
That’s about it for this helpfile, now hopefully you have a good handle on the golfwrx posting system.
In this helpfile you will learn everything about topics, this will be another big help file so go get a cup of tea or coffee and sit back and relax, could be a idea to print this out to read this since its going to be pretty big.
Forums
Forums is what makes up an actual “Forum” like golfwrx these “forums” are used to make different “threads” and the forums are for different ideas and interests and one and be used from a completely different reason then another. There are many forums on golfwrx, sometimes it can be hard to know where to post your thread but if you look closely there is always somewhere to post your content. Once you click the forum a list of all the topic ( threads ), come up with there information. At the bottom is a legend for the different icons ( new topic, new replies, hot topic etc...). You can also reorder them by many different varieties. To make a new topic or poll click the button to make a new one.
Topics ( Threads )
When making a topic you need to give it a name and also if you want a description for example “ My Golf bag - Has lots of clubs “ Now there is a post box which also on the left has some smilies you can use and on the top of the box some frequent BBCodes
BBCodes
Bbcodes are used instead of regular raw “HTML ( Hyper Text Markup Langauge)”, this is done so that hackers and crackers have a hard time cracking/hacking your forums as HTML lies some security risks. Instead we used tags like “ [BBCODE] Content [/BBCODE]” all bbcodes need to be in {} and ending a bbcode needs [/]. There is almost every bbcode you can think of in place of html and here are some frequent ones.
To post a url:
DISPLAY TO USERS
To post a IMG ( From a outside source ).
PHOTO URL
To post a email
email@email.com
For quotes
Quote
QUOTED TEXT
Spoiler
Spoiler
Now all of these are already in the post box in little button near the top of the box and it will do it automatically for you in most cases. So bold something use Bold Text , to underline something use Underlined
Smiles ( Emotions )
To use smiles click the left box of the emotion you want to use and it will put a code into the postbox for email :) or :D or :( there are many codes so no worry to try to figure that out. You can also click to reveal all the smiles that we offer and if you do have a special one that you like you can use the IMG bbcode to include it into a post.
Postbox
Now you can write your content you can use the bbcodes and emotions and anything else you want to, to make your post.
Spoiler Tag
This is a great little feature that can pack a lot of boom. What it does is allow the poster to use the spoiler tag by click “Spoiler” for the
Spoiler
” If that does not work just put the content and the tags manually.
Topic Making Spell Checking
Ok, so you just made a topic it could be one sentence or 100 paragraphs and you want to make sure the spelling is good. You just click the “Spell Check” button and a popup will occur ( Make sure you have javascript enabled ). Then when the popup has loaded go through your work and fix the spelling, when your done click “done” and your post will be updated.
Upload Picture Directly To Post
Golfwrx allows you to directly add pictures to post using the attachment feature. We also let you upload up to 8 pictures at a time, to do this go post a topic or post something in a thread and go to the attachment place of the post/thread and browse what you want to upload after that click submit and the files will be uploaded into the thread.
Watermarking Photo’s
The water marking feature is a very useful feature crafted by Scott Oldford. It allows you to upload pictures to threads or posts with the Golfwrx picture in it meaning that the when the photo is posted it will be automatically watermarked so that you don’t have to do it manually. This feature is a yes/no feature meaning you can turn it on/off and you can upload up to 8 photos at a time. To use this feature go to post a topic or a regular reply add the attachments then click yes to turn on the watermarking. When it has posted the pictures should be watermarked with the golfwrx logo. The feature is very easy to do but prevents stealing information and is something that is very helpful and saves a lot of time.
Similar Threads v1.0
The similar thread’s system allows you to look at five other threads that have the same keywords as the topic your viewing this allows you to go to other topics that are related easily. You can do this by entering a topic then at the almost very bottom. You will see a box there with the last five topics. Everything is pre-searched when you go in a topic and all you have to do is click the link to go to the topic. All in all it is a great system and very useful and something that many people use a lot.
Topic Options
At the bottom of each topic, there is a 'Topic Options' button. Pressing this button will expand the topic options box.
From this box, you can select from the following options:
Track this topic - this option will allow you to receive e-mail updates for the topic, see the 'Email Notification of new messages' help file for more information on this
Subscribe to this forum - will allow you to receive e-mail updates for any new topics posted in the forum, see the Notification of new messages' help file for more information on this
Download / Print this Topic - will show the topic in a number of different formats. 'Printer Friendly Version' will display a version of the topic that is suitable for printing out. 'Download HTML Version' will download a copy of the topic to your hard drive, and this can then be viewed in a web browser, without having to visit the board. 'Download Microsoft Word Version' will allow you to download the file to your hard drive and open it up in the popular word processing application, Microsoft Word, for viewing offline.
Poll Options
If you have chosen to post a new poll, there will be an extra two option boxes at the top of the help screen. The first input box will allow you to enter the question that you are asking in the poll. The text field underneath is where you will input the choices for the poll. Simply enter a different option on each line. The maximum number of choices is set by the board admin, and this figure is displayed on the left.
Editing Posts
Above any posts that you have made, you may see an 'Edit' button. Pressing this will allow you to edit the post that you had previously made.
When editing you may see an option to 'Add the 'Edit by' line in this post?'. If you tick this then it will show up in the posts that it has been edited and the time at which it was edited. If this option does not appear, then the edit by line will always be added to the post.
Fast Reply
Where it has been enabled, there will be a fast reply button on each topic. Clicking this will open up a posting box on the topic view screen, cutting down on the time required to load the main posting screen. Click the fast reply button to expand the reply box and type the post inside of there. Although the fast reply box is not expanded by default, you can choose the option to have it expanded by default, from the board settings section of your control panel. Pressing the 'More Options' button will take you to the normal posting screen.
That’s about it for this helpfile, now hopefully you have a good handle on the golfwrx posting system.
