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Well, I've heard that some people have problems using this forum, so I've created a quick picture guide to help people.

This is mostly labelled pictures, and should help people find things on this forum :)

Most the features are numbered with blue numbers, with a list below the individual pics.

The first step is registering. If you already have an account, you can skip to the 3rd pic;

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1) Website navigation.
2) Forum tools
3) Login box
4) Register button. You need to press this.

You will be given a disclaimer, to which you need to press "I agree".

Then you will be given a registration form. It's fairly self explanatory, and I have filled out the one below;
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Once you've registered, you may need to find an automated email to activate your account. We currently have that feature disabled, though.

Then, you need to login on the index page;
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You can select "Log me in automatically" if you do not wish to have to log in again on that computer. Fill in your details and press login.

This is what the index page will look like once you've logged in;
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1) UCP can be used for changing account settings. We do not cover this here.
2) Your PMs (Personal Messages) will be displayed here. Users can send you private messages for your eyes only.
3) FAQ. This can answer some questions you have about the forum.
4) The BBCode Guide can help you create more visually appealing posts using the BBCode system.
5) Forum rules. Does exactly what they say on the tin, should be read.
6) Search allows you to search the forum.
7) Members shows a complete list of our members.
8) Logout, does what it says.
9) This is a forum category, it separates the forums into appropriate sections.
10) This is a forum, click the title to view the threads in the forum.
11) These show info about the individual forums.
12) These are subforums, like normal forums, click them to visit them.

This is what the General Banter forum looks like;
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1) This is the forum navigation bar, you can go back to the index using this.
2) These are the General Banter subforums, click them to visit them.
3) This is the forum you are currently visiting. The "New Topic" button is just below this.
4) These are the announcements, these are generally news posts that you should read.
5) This column shows the thread status icon.
6) This column shows the topic icons, which are just fun icons that posters can say.
7) These are the threads, click the title to read a thread, or a page number to jump straight to a point in a thread.
8) These columns show post information.

I clicked "New topic" to start a new thread in this forum;
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1) The forum you are posting in.
2) Topic icons. Select one if you want.
3) This is the topic title. Make it something informative to get people to read your thread.
4) These are smilies, click one to add it to your post.
5) This is BBCode, you don't need to concern yourself with it, though read the BBCode Guide if you want to know how to use it.
6) This is where your post text goes.
7) These are post options. It's usually best to leave them as default settings.
8) These are the posting buttons. Preview allows you to view your post without submitting it. Submit sends it to to be posted on the forums. Save stores it as a draft in your UCP. Cancel does what it says.
9) You can attach a file to your post using this section. HTere are limits on this.
10) You can create a poll here, it is self explanatory.

Once you have submitted you topic it will appear on the forum;
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If we click the name of the thread we can view the new post;
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1) Click here to create a new thread in the same forum.
2) Clicking here allows you to use the advanced reply box, which is like the new thread page, but without a create poll option and it will add to the current thread.
3) You can vote in polls here, when a thread has one.
4) This area shows info about the poster.
5) This is the users post.
6) These are options for posts. Edit allows you to change your own posts, and quote brings up the post reply box with the selected post already quoted.
7) This is the forum navigation bar.
8) This is the quick reply box, you can use it to quickly write a reply to the thread you are reading.
9) Preview and submit buttons for the quick reply box.

Well that just about covers all the basics of the forums.

I have covered most the details, and hope this helps people.

Thank you

- Skillers and the TCHS Staff

P.S. Any other questions just ask here, and any suggestions for additions, just say.

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Fri Sep 05, 2008 11:44 pm 
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my advise would be to break it up, a lot.

have links to different topics, e.g. how do i make a post, then when clicked goes to the part about making a post etc.

your post is very long and well i didnt really read it cos it looked too hard :P

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I may edit this later to make it easier to read and navigate it. I wrote it pretty quickly at the start of September. I can create jump to links so you can find what you want (think o the contents on a Wiki page).

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yeh something like that, at the moment its too much stuff in one long thing.

think of when revising, its impossible to do it from an a3 of solid writing, but easier with cue cards, etc.

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Oh, so were going Wiki now too eh? :P

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Nah, but I added the code to make #s to do my project log, lol.

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lol aaron, ive never used that button before and i get along just fine :D

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You mean you actually manually browse through the categories?

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That's totally crazy!

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well, its what i do :O. i marked all posts as read a couple of weeks ago (having read everything interesting imo :P) and then after that i just navigate to the ticks.

Although I may use the active topic thing as well now lol

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I manually browse aswell.

And lol at Example User. I can't even remember what the password was, probably example.

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manually browse, after you learn when everything is it doesnt make any difference anyway

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Are you going to update the images so it isn't 100% CutThroat? :P

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its not cutthroat anymore?!?! omg fml :(

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I can't be bothered to change the images, it doesn't matter that it is CT.

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i dont see the problem in the cutthroat bit anyway, stop being picky metty :P

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I'm guessing there are 1000 beats in a day.

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