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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 10:41:15 GMT
I seem suddenly to be discovering some really useful 'tricks' to get me off the site's 'usage gremlins' that seem to be inflicting so many of us.
Shortly I hope to make a post to this thread outlining my discoveries.
Then if it all works I'm going to see if James agrees with the idea of creating a distinct 'Home Page' that displays them under the title "Dummies Guide to Forum Usage".
At the present if you click on 'Home' or 'Forum' (extreme left of top navigation bar) each takes you to this one and only page whereas, if James agrees, 'Home' will tell users how to use the forum, which they can then go to by clicking on 'Forum'.
Alternatively users can go to forum as soon as they login by clicking on 'Forum,' without first stopping to read 'Home' (I think)
Anyhow I can try this out initially on our 'experimenting' site at: stayingintouchwithgod.com/ which may come up with "Return to the forum's homepage." which, if it does come up, will need clicking, in order to get you into the site.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 14:01:34 GMT
Quote by me: I seem suddenly to be discovering some really useful 'tricks' to get me off the site's 'usage gremlins' that seem to be inflicting so many of us.
Shortly I hope to make a post to this thread outlining my discoveries.
Then if it all works I'm going to see if James agrees with the idea of creating a distinct 'Home Page' that displays them under the title "Dummies Guide to Forum Usage".
Well, so far I just can't figure out how to customise a Home Page to show what I suggested (on our 'experimenting site')
Looks like I need a "Dummies Guide to Admin Usage"
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Post by amadeus on Feb 3, 2016 15:52:24 GMT
Well, Mike, at least I am not alone acknowledging being a dummy in these things. I am continuing to proceed very carefully.
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Post by Helen on Feb 3, 2016 18:45:30 GMT
It does seem as if patience , with the site, and with ourselves, is the name of the game!!!   If we can keep our humour we will make it okay to land.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 20:54:26 GMT
Composing this has been incredibly difficult and I may have to return with edits as I check it all out but here goes for starters:
The most frequent area of gremlin attack seems to occur when we occasionally use the 'Quote' facility, especially if we try to cut the 'Quote' down by highlighting and deleting all parts except the part that we particularly want to address.
I find two alternative ways of quoting and replying, depending on how you've got to the post that you want to address.
Firstly, if you've got there after clicking into 'Recent Posts':
1) Highlight and then do 'ctrl' plus 'c' for the bit in the post that you want to quote.
2) Then click on the blue topic title at top left.
3) Then click on 'Reply' and, in the posting panel, type 'username name said:' followed by 'ctrl' plus 'v'.
4) Then drop down a line (leaving one line space) and type your reply.
5] Then highlight the 'lot', and select font size.
6) Then highlight and select a colour to '3'
7) Then highlight and select the 'I' icon for the bit after the ':' in item '3'
8) Then click 'Create Post'
If however you have got to a post that you wish to quote and reply via 'Participated' (top right of navbar)
Then secondly (with step 2 being a slightly easier way to get to 'Reply'):
1) Highlight and then do 'ctrl' plus 'c' for the bit in the post that you want to quote.
2) Then click 'Reply' (bottom right).
Then follow steps '3' to '8' above.
Here's a gremlin free example of what you should end up with:
[James said: Dave -the "whole" world is deceived already
I'm jolted into the significance of that "already".
So much so that I'm going to search for it in Revelation and then add it into the private collection of 'speaking to me' scriptures that I am compiling in 'Word'.]
I've printed out a copy of this to keep beside me as a reminder of what to do, and as a check that I've told you all 'aright'.
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Post by Helen on Feb 3, 2016 21:19:03 GMT
Good, now that one I COULD understand.  Thanks x
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 23:31:36 GMT
Good, now that one I COULD understand. Thanks x |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 23:51:51 GMT
I still reckon the best way to keep abreast of posting (providing you log in daily) is to use the 'Recent Posts' facility down at the bottom of the page.
And my reason for saying that is the fact that (to the best of my understanding) the 'Participated' facility only list 'threads', and then only lists the ones in which you have participated. So you could miss the ones in which you have not 'participated'.
If you do not login daily the only way to fully catch up on all postings is to click on the 'New' icon to the left of each board (I think that is so).
When I use the 'Recent Posts' facility I am constantly getting back to the top (either by scrolling up, or by clicking into the 'cogwheel' icon to the right of a post) and then selecting 'Back to the top'.
Once I'm at the top I click on 'Forum' and scroll back to the bottom if I'm not yet finished with checking through all 'Recent Posts'.
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Post by Helen on Feb 4, 2016 1:14:55 GMT
Yes I agree..but I guess I first click Participated as that is all the threads I am active on.
Then I click the "Staying in touch touch" under Home . But I have bee "caught-out" with that one...by missing threads and posts by trusting it.
Then I always go to the Recent Posts at the bottom and scroll through just to see if a post that I missed shows up. So, I actually use all three places to double check.
That way, as they say:- " I've got it covered."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 7:32:05 GMT
I'm increasingly 'getting a grip' by leaps and bounds.
It won't be long before I do a revised 'write up'.
But first I must complete today's 'round up'.
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Post by james on Feb 4, 2016 9:12:44 GMT
As my text has been a source of question, I thought I would use preview before I post.
I click preview but nothing happens, unlike on the old site where it said "fetching preview" and then there it was a little up the page.
What am I doing wrong Mike?
James
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Post by ivor on Feb 4, 2016 9:37:42 GMT
James why not choose your font size before you write a word?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 11:12:20 GMT
As my text has been a source of question, I thought I would use preview before I post.
I click preview but nothing happens, unlike on the old site where it said "fetching preview" and then there it was a little up the page.
What am I doing wrong Mike?
James
It seems to me that whichever one you have enabled (Preview is the best), you still get a choice, when posting, to change things around by toggling between 'Preview' and 'BBCode' (at bottom left).
But whatever, 'Preview' doesn't do what you are expecting since, unlike CreateAForum, the site already shows you exactly what you are producing within the Posting box, whilst you are creating the post. |
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Post by james on Feb 4, 2016 13:45:47 GMT
Ivor, me o'l china, that is what I did.
Then two of my posts that were 14 size top to bottom when read by others changed from 14 to mini a quarter the way through .
Now I am trying, writing first, then select, and change the size.
I thought preview would let me see if anything odd had happened to what I had typed behind the scenes.
James
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2016 14:51:36 GMT
Quote by me: I seem suddenly to be discovering some really useful 'tricks' to get me off the site's 'usage gremlins' that seem to be inflicting so many of us.
Shortly I hope to make a post to this thread outlining my discoveries.
Then if it all works I'm going to see if James agrees with the idea of creating a distinct 'Home Page' that displays them under the title "Dummies Guide to Forum Usage".
Well, so far I just can't figure out how to customise a Home Page to show what I suggested (on our 'experimenting site')
Looks like I need a "Dummies Guide to Admin Usage"
After a short time with an IT expert from my local church, this 'nuts and bolts' man has at last 'cracked' how to do a 'Home Page' that can be customised and be headed:
"Dummies Guide to Forum Usage (click on 'Forum' in the top navbar if you want to skip this page).
If you go to our experimentation site at stayingintouchwithgod.com/ you will see the 'breakthrough', albeit that the 'content' is just an irrelevance to check that it can be done.
Nothing more will happen in this respect until I have completed my current rewording of 'Guidelines'.
But thereafter (if James agrees to such a 'Home Page for this site) we will be able to go back and amend the new 'Home Page' as and when a need arises. |
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Post by james on Feb 4, 2016 18:02:27 GMT
Yes Mike I took a look and see what you mean, a page for how to for dummies, with a site option.
Very clever!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2016 23:03:43 GMT
Yes Mike I took a look and see what you mean, a page for how to for dummies, with a site option.
Very clever!!
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If we can keep our humour we will make it okay to land.
Thanks x
