New Members..Posting Help Here

[essex boy]

Forward

Most of us who have been here at Jokaroo for more than a year may well remember what it is like to be a neophyte, a Newbie. You join and become a member, you wish to fit in and become recognized - one of the crowd. But when you attempt to post graphics, design your Signature Page or even your Avatar, you soon discover things are not going for you the way you had wished nor imagined.
How come my picture doesn’t come up? ...... why is there a red "X"? ..... I entered the link but all I got for my trouble was the text - where’s my photo? Over the last year I have received at least a hundred PM’s and e-mails from new members frustrated with the situation here at the Roo. Relax, take a deep breath, and repeat after me: "It’s not all that bad, I can do it, all will be good!"

I wrote this post in a very simplistic manner to tailor it to even the very basic computer user. For those of you who are more advanced, bear with me even if the text does read like "See Spot Run". Now that we both understand why you are here, let’s get started:

Chapter 1:

Icon vs. Code

Since Jokaroo is technically a giant bulletin-board, everything you do here will be governed by the innocuous "Edit Window". If you design or change your Sig Page you will go to the Edit window; if you send or reply to a Private Message (PM), you will deal with the Edit window; and every time you post to a thread or respond to someone else’s post - yes, you will be staring at the Edit window. You can’t escape it so it’s best to make it your friend.

There are those of us here who like, or even enjoy, using "Codes" in their Editor. I’m sure you have seen them before, the and sort of thing. I for one, HATE codes. I refuse to deal with them if at all possible. For me, there is nothing better than What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) mode of editing. Let the others keep their codes, my fingers cramp up from all theat typing and I make too many errors anyway. So call me lazy but I’d rather click on an icon. Therefore, this article is written to support Enhanced or WYSIWYG form of editing. Which editor are you using?

User Control Panel

Before we start, it seems pertinent for me to remind you that not all browsers recognize nor accept WYSIWYG forms of editors. For example, older versions of Netscape, Firefox, and even Windows own Internet Explorer will not work in Enhanced mode. Therefore, if you change your editor selection and it STILL refuses to come up in Enhanced mode, it could be because your browser simply does not like it.

In order to determine which edit mode you have your system set up for, we must first go to the User Control Panel. To do this, go to the blue bar (See Figure 1 ) .....



....... at the top of any page (See Figure 2 ) and click on "User CP".

When the next window appears, look to the left side of the page (See Figure 3 ) and note the column of choices you have.



Select "Edit Options" and click on that. This will bring up yet another window and now scroll down to the bottom and find the "Miscellaneous Options" box. The heading will be: "Message Editor Interface". (See Figure 4)



At the bottom you will find a drop arrow box. ( See Figure 5) Inside this box it should say: "Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing" If it does not, click on the arrow and select that option.

Now click on "Save Changes" (See Figure 6 ) and you’re all done !!!





Chapter 2:

How to upload pics.
Here is the thread explaining that.
How to use the Jokeroo Uploader to post pics,inc Signature Pics

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[essex boy]

Chapter 3:

Now that you have your Editor set for Enhanced mode, lets go on and discover what good it will do you.
As I stated earlier, you should make your Edit Window your friend. You will be seeing an awful lot of it The Edit Window shown below is for PM messaging but is nearly identical to the Edit Window for Signature Page Edit as well as Post Reply. The only difference is that it is a bit narrower and not as wide.



If you wish to format your text,i.e font size,position,font style,colour,ect..then the tools above the text canvas is the place to go.
First type out your text,then select the part you want to format.
You can then click on the tools above the text canvas to format it,ie B for Bold,ect..if you change your mind and wish to undo the text format then just click on the crossed out A/A above the B for Bold.
Once your satisfied scroll down to under the smileys at the bottom of the text canvas and click Submit reply if it's a reply or Submit New Thread if it's a new thread.

Insert Link

Sometimes you'll need to insert a link to another page on the internet,
it might be a flash image or something like that,it can't be uploaded so it needs to be linked to instead.
The tool for that is the thing that looks like a blue globe.



First thing to do it to select the URL from the flash page.
You'll find it in the browser window.


Copy the text from the browser window.
Now click on the Blue Globe link icon.that will give you this popup text box.



Press delete to get rid of the text already in the rectangle text box,then paste the URL you copied from the flash site into the rectangle text box.then click OK.

Now submit the reply,or new thread.
It will give you a link that when clicked will take the person to the flash/site,that you wanted them to be at.
Here's the one I used as an example,try out the link.
Nike.com

I hope this helps you to understand things better.
Written by Wet Sensations..Edited and Updated by essex boy

[GoldCoast]

How do you get other members to unignore you? So that you can make up for past infractions and be seen when you make a very pertinent post?

[essex boy]

Originally Posted by GoldCoast

How do you get other members to unignore you? So that you can make up for past infractions and be seen when you make a very pertinent post?

That's a difficult one as PM's or any contact would be ignored.
One way could be to ask a friend to send a PM asking if an ignored person may be given another chance.

[mmyers2548]

I have IE 7 and went into the options and changed it to enhanced and I still get a bunch of red x in boxes. Am I doing something wrong?

[essex boy]

Originally Posted by mmyers2548

I have IE 7 and went into the options and changed it to enhanced and I still get a bunch of red x in boxes. Am I doing something wrong?

Welcome to the forum,you seem to be a great addition to our forum.
The red x's are just bad timing,the old Jokeroo uploader has gone down while the new Jokeroo uploader has problems of it's own LOL.
I have been assured that it is being worked on,meanwhile if you need a different uploader yourself feel free to PM me and I'll let you know what's available.

[tabdebutante]

I'm a new member here . but wonder if anyone can help me get the not smileys . the pictures that are on the comments ? I cannot get the answer to how to get these as seen on your comments here . Please if you can be helpful it will be appreciated . Still lot to learn uet new here . TABDEBUTANTE .

[essex boy]

Originally Posted by tabdebutante

I'm a new member here . but wonder if anyone can help me get the not smileys . the pictures that are on the comments ? I cannot get the answer to how to get these as seen on your comments here . Please if you can be helpful it will be appreciated . Still lot to learn uet new here . TABDEBUTANTE .

Sorry about that,the thread was made when we had the last uploader
I will be updating the thread but at the moment there's still issues with the new uploader to be resolved.
Here's a different uploader Free Image Uploader
The codes that you'll need is the 5th one down..the one that says BBCode

[centermass1]

hello all new member

[centermass1]

hello all