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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 9/12/2005 8:26:42 PM

lulu karma

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Gremlins!

I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work for you. The code looked fine. So yep, gremlins it is!

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 10/12/2005 10:38:59 AM

CURIOUS_GEORGE

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From: England

How can you post pictures? Also where does everyone get their display pictures from!? Mine never fit!!!

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 10/12/2005 4:34:28 PM

Stalla

Posts: 520
Joined: 1/12/2005
From: London

re: posting pictures, go back a few pages in this topic to when i had that same problem, the responses from black knight were really helpful.

re: display pics. how are you putting them on? the one you got now seems fine

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 10/12/2005 8:25:47 PM

Porrohman

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From: Nottingham

testing

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 10/12/2005 8:26:38 PM

Porrohman

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From: Nottingham

bollocks it didn`t work

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Post #: 95

RE: Top tips for the new forum - 11/12/2005 4:31:04 PM

Kadaj

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Yes u are

Thank u everybody

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 12/12/2005 10:51:11 AM

Porrohman

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From: Nottingham

hmmm so it works when i choose one of empires avatars but not my own??
i`ll just keep playing about with it. lol

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Post #: 97

RE: Top tips for the new forum - 15/12/2005 3:25:52 AM

lulu karma

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Hmmm... I went into your avatar upload section and tried uploading an avatar that I saved to www.imageshack.us. It was this one:

I don't see it showing up.

Send me a PM with an image you would like to use and we'll see if we can get it working.

< Message edited by lulu karma -- 15/12/2005 3:26:43 AM >

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I feel like I'm Han Solo, and you're Chewie and she's Ben Kenobi and we're in that fucked-up bar.

This is the captain speaking. It appears we are going down. Now may be the time to reflect upon your life and pray to whatever deity you believe in. We know you have your choice of airlines and apparently you made the wrong one.

The eyes are the nipples of the face.

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 16/12/2005 1:52:44 PM

i007_Bond_007i

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How do you clever buggers make animation avatars (like film clips etc.). I'd really like to learn how to make such an avatar. I have photoshop, if that's any help.

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 16/12/2005 2:20:11 PM

Mycroft

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You need ImageReady, which normally comes with Photoshop. Should be some basic instructions in the Make Me An Avatar thread somewhere

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 16/12/2005 6:11:01 PM

i007_Bond_007i

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Ok, thanks. I've got Imageready, I'll have a look for that thread now.

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 16/12/2005 6:19:35 PM

i007_Bond_007i

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Where is it?

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 20/12/2005 3:50:57 PM

Captain Black

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Bond: link here. That's if you want one made. Basically what you do is load a folder full of stills into ImageReady, choose the delay between frames, size it properly and save as a gif. Quite simple assuming you've got the video clip you want.

Couple of technical questions:

1. Is there any way to view who has voted in a poll? I don't need to know what (options) for, just who has clicked an option. It's a poll in one of my threads, I wanted to remove the poll soon and I would like a record of who has voted in case I recreate it.

2. Can we delete our own threads? I know that we can delete our own posts, so wondered if we could do so with threads.

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Post #: 103

RE: Top tips for the new forum - 1/1/2006 1:04:26 PM

CURIOUS_GEORGE

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Joined: 25/10/2005
From: England

Ok I'm trying out that photo posting and prehaps you mods could tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Link codes are: [ url=http://_________ ]http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/c/cf7e1ad71e.jpg[ /url ]
And image codes are: [ image ]YOUR IMAGE HERE[ /image ]

To get an image to link, put the two together comme ca:
[ url=http://____________][ image]http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/c/cf7e1ad71e.jpg[ /image][ /url ]

To get the tags to show up I've had to include spaces, so just remove these. Helpful?

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 1/1/2006 1:05:54 PM

CURIOUS_GEORGE

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From: England

Ahhhh Beans ! Ok test two...

Link codes are: [ http://http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/c/cf7e1ad71e.jpg/url
And image codes are: [ image ]YOUR IMAGE HERE[ /image ]

To get an image to link, put the two together comme ca:
[ url=http://http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/c/cf7e1ad71e.jpg[ image/image/url

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 1/1/2006 1:06:12 PM

CURIOUS_GEORGE

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From: England

Somebody please help !

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Post #: 106

RE: Top tips for the new forum - 5/1/2006 5:10:28 PM

Jackie

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From: Before the Bomb

You're not closing your [ url ][ /url ] tags, George, but I'm guessing you only want to put an image up anyway, so it should look like this:
[ image ]http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/c/cf7e1ad71e.jpg[ /image ]

So it looks like this without the spaces:
[image]http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/c/cf7e1ad71e.jpg[/image]

If you want to post an image that will also be a link, you do this:
[ url=http://www.google.co.uk ][ image ]http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/images/logo.gif[ /image ][ /url ]

And that would look like this:

However, the image you've chosen there won't actually let you hotlink it (ie. put it onto another page using the original link), so you'd need to upload it to a free server, such as http://www.photobucket.com - okay?

Jackie.

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Post #: 107

RE: Top tips for the new forum - 7/1/2006 2:38:57 AM

lulu karma

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Captain Black

Couple of technical questions:

1. Is there any way to view who has voted in a poll? I don't need to know what (options) for, just who has clicked an option. It's a poll in one of my threads, I wanted to remove the poll soon and I would like a record of who has voted in case I recreate it.

2. Can we delete our own threads? I know that we can delete our own posts, so wondered if we could do so with threads.

The short answer to both of those is no. You can't see who has voted in the poll but results can be viewed without voting by clicking the View Results Link below the voting choices.

Only mods and admin can delete threads.

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I feel like I'm Han Solo, and you're Chewie and she's Ben Kenobi and we're in that fucked-up bar.

This is the captain speaking. It appears we are going down. Now may be the time to reflect upon your life and pray to whatever deity you believe in. We know you have your choice of airlines and apparently you made the wrong one.

The eyes are the nipples of the face.

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 8/1/2006 10:35:56 PM

CURIOUS_GEORGE

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Joined: 25/10/2005
From: England

quote:

ORIGINAL: Jackie

You're not closing your [ url ][ /url ] tags, George, but I'm guessing you only want to put an image up anyway, so it should look like this:
[ image ]http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/c/cf7e1ad71e.jpg[ /image ]

So it looks like this without the spaces:
[image]http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/c/cf7e1ad71e.jpg[/image]

If you want to post an image that will also be a link, you do this:
[ url=http://www.google.co.uk ][ image ]http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/images/logo.gif[ /image ][ /url ]

And that would look like this:

However, the image you've chosen there won't actually let you hotlink it (ie. put it onto another page using the original link), so you'd need to upload it to a free server, such as http://www.photobucket.com - okay?

Jackie.

[image]http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/c/cf7e1ad71e.jpg [/image]
This better work...
[ image ]http://eur.yimg.com/i/xp/premier_photo/c/cf7e1ad71e.jpg [/image][/image]

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 8/1/2006 10:37:08 PM

CURIOUS_GEORGE

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 8/1/2006 10:37:23 PM

CURIOUS_GEORGE

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JESUS !

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RE: The How To List - Avatars, Signatures, Etc. - 8/1/2006 10:39:04 PM

CURIOUS_GEORGE

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RE: The How To List - Avatars, Signatures, Etc. - 8/1/2006 10:40:45 PM

CURIOUS_GEORGE

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IT WORKED! THANKS GUYS!

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RE: The How To List - Avatars, Signatures, Etc. - 9/1/2006 9:27:11 PM

Jackie

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You're welcome - glad you got it working

Jackie.

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RE: The How To List - Avatars, Signatures, Etc. - 10/1/2006 10:49:01 AM

CURIOUS_GEORGE

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And how exactly do you post images off the web!?

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RE: The How To List - Avatars, Signatures, Etc. - 11/1/2006 7:31:07 AM

i007_Bond_007i

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Right click on the image. Properties. Then copy and paste the URL into the "Add Image" section.

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 11/1/2006 10:51:37 AM

Captain Black

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quote:

Original: lulu Karma

The short answer to both of those is no. You can't see who has voted in the poll but results can be viewed without voting by clicking the View Results Link below the voting choices.

Only mods and admin can delete threads.

Thanks for the reply, lulu. Love the new avatar BTW.

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 13/1/2006 6:57:24 PM

loreofelves

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OK, I've tried repeatedly and am unable to post pix stored in my Photobucket account. I was able to post pix without a problem at the 'old' Empire forum, but not here.

Here's what I've been doing. First I copy the picture's URL, then I click on 'Enter Image URL' (little yellow envelope), and then I click 'Paste' and say 'OK.' The only thing that ever shows up is a colorful 'rectangular box' - but NO IMAGE! Can someone please help? There must be SOMETHING I'm missing (besides half a brain of course)!

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 13/1/2006 11:10:01 PM

NadaPlissken

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From: Hobb's End

quote:

ORIGINAL: loreofelves

OK, I've tried repeatedly and am unable to post pix stored in my Photobucket account. I was able to post pix without a problem at the 'old' Empire forum, but not here.

Here's what I've been doing. First I copy the picture's URL, then I click on 'Enter Image URL' (little yellow envelope), and then I click 'Paste' and say 'OK.' The only thing that ever shows up is a colorful 'rectangular box' - but NO IMAGE! Can someone please help? There must be SOMETHING I'm missing (besides half a brain of course)!

Photobucket sucks. Use Image Shack instead, that's what I do as much as I can. I've had nothing but trouble with PB pics, here and other forums.

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RE: Top tips for the new forum - 14/1/2006 6:20:17 PM

loreofelves

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I would try another account, but unfortunately I'm paid up at Photobucket for another year. What I don't understand is why I had no problem at the old Empire forum, and I have no problem posting pix at other sites.

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