Forum Tutorials
Posted: 04 May 2014, 15:37
This is a topic I'm making for all you forum goers who want to format really cool things to post here but are not quite sure how. You're free to suggest tutorials for me to do, but I'll try to upload one every week.
The first tutorial is probably one I should post later, but it's also been getting on my nerves a lot, so I am going to post it first.
Tutorial #1: Smaller Pictures
Alright, you've all seen people post really huge pictures on the forums that stretches the window and makes you scroll a bunch just to see the page numbers. It's so easy to avoid that! The solution is very simple.
Here's a scenario: You find a really boss wallpaper and you want to post it on the forums for everyone to see, but you don't want it to appear as big as it does because it'd make the forums go all wacko.
Step #1: Right click the picture and hit Search Google for this image.
Step #2: A window similar to the one below will be seen. You're going to want to click the blue hyperlink labeled Medium.
Step #3: A window similar to the one below will be seen. You can see the image sizes in the bottom left hand corner. The first number is width and the second is height (width x height). Choose a picture with a small width, no more than 500 pixels. If you don't see a picture with a width of 500 or less, repeat Step #2, except click Small instead of Medium.
Step #4: Most of you should know what to do from here. You click your picture, hit View Image, copy the URL of the picture, then return to the forums. A tutorial on Uploading Images will be added here later if it is requested.
Step #5: We're not quite done yet! You wanted share a wallpaper with people. In order to link it to them, you post your picture in the format below.
[url=wallpaper url][img]smallerimageofwallpaperurl[/img][/url]
People will be able to left click it to open up the picture right in that tab. If you want to open it in another tab, simply right click it and click Open image in new tab.
Your result is something like this.
Also, of course, if you just find a funny meme or something that's really big, you don't have to link anyone to the larger one if you don't want to.
And now you're done! Now that wasn't so hard, was it? If you want a little practice, feel free to upload pictures here.
Love,
~ Boxy
**EDIT** I understand that this tutorial doesn't really help mobile users, but I will eventually upload a tutorial like this one for those people.
The first tutorial is probably one I should post later, but it's also been getting on my nerves a lot, so I am going to post it first.
Tutorial #1: Smaller Pictures
Alright, you've all seen people post really huge pictures on the forums that stretches the window and makes you scroll a bunch just to see the page numbers. It's so easy to avoid that! The solution is very simple.
Here's a scenario: You find a really boss wallpaper and you want to post it on the forums for everyone to see, but you don't want it to appear as big as it does because it'd make the forums go all wacko.
Step #1: Right click the picture and hit Search Google for this image.
Step #2: A window similar to the one below will be seen. You're going to want to click the blue hyperlink labeled Medium.
Step #3: A window similar to the one below will be seen. You can see the image sizes in the bottom left hand corner. The first number is width and the second is height (width x height). Choose a picture with a small width, no more than 500 pixels. If you don't see a picture with a width of 500 or less, repeat Step #2, except click Small instead of Medium.
Step #4: Most of you should know what to do from here. You click your picture, hit View Image, copy the URL of the picture, then return to the forums. A tutorial on Uploading Images will be added here later if it is requested.
Step #5: We're not quite done yet! You wanted share a wallpaper with people. In order to link it to them, you post your picture in the format below.
[url=wallpaper url][img]smallerimageofwallpaperurl[/img][/url]
People will be able to left click it to open up the picture right in that tab. If you want to open it in another tab, simply right click it and click Open image in new tab.
Your result is something like this.
Also, of course, if you just find a funny meme or something that's really big, you don't have to link anyone to the larger one if you don't want to.
And now you're done! Now that wasn't so hard, was it? If you want a little practice, feel free to upload pictures here.
Love,
~ Boxy
**EDIT** I understand that this tutorial doesn't really help mobile users, but I will eventually upload a tutorial like this one for those people.