Welcome to the new Practical Caravan forums.
The operation of the Forums is a bit different to what you've all been used to. For starters, if you haven’t yet logged in, you’ll find you need to do so with your USERNAME and password, not your email address as previously. Many of you did not have a unique user name and we’ve had to create one for you. If you find that you’re unable to log in, you should click on the link
http://www.practicalcaravan.com/user/password
to ask for a new one. You’ll be sent a one-time login, where you’ll be able to change your password and username to something more memorable (provided the username doesn’t exist already)
There are a few new things to learn:
1) Avatar uploads
- To upload your avatar, go to your 'My account' page, click 'Edit' and scroll down to the section labelled 'Picture'.
Here you can upload your picture – Maximum dimensions are 85x85 pixels and the maximum size is 30 kB – and, once you've confirmed your password, click 'save' to update your account details.
2) Picture uploads should work, too!
- To upload a picture, you'll first need to have it stored on a site such as Flickr or Picasa.
Copy the URL of the picture, then click the little 'tree' symbol on the menu bar of the Forum posting window, paste in the URL, and click the 'insert' button.
Pictures should be no wider than 400px – there’s an option to set this in that box.
More picture-posting advice in this thread.
3) Links, when typed into a Forum post, will automatically become clickable. No need to do all that HTML stuff: just type a web address, and it becomes a link.
4) To reply to a post, click the 'reply' button below the post in question. To quote the post in your answer, click 'quote' instead of reply, go to the end of the text, and after the end quote tag, which is [ /quote] start typing your reply.
Please note you can edit down the quoted text to just quote the bit you want – no point in quoting a whole post and its picture when you're only responding to one point in the post. Just ensure the bit of text has the [ quote=username ] tag in front of it, and the [ /quote ] after it.
5) To post your thoughts, click 'save' or, if you want to see how things will look before posting, click 'preview' first.
6) The 'Flag as offensive' is for anything you think the moderators should have a look at - click this button, fill out the short form it brings up, and click 'send'.
One more thing – you'll no longer be able to edit your comment once it's been replied to. Just saves arguments about who actually said what...
Lastly – in transferring the forum to our new servers, some of the content that you;ve posted in the last 24 hours has been left behind – don’t worry, it’s all safe and it should be back in place by the end of the day!
Any problems, don’t hesitate to contact us at practical.caravan@haymarket.com
Cheers!
JD
The operation of the Forums is a bit different to what you've all been used to. For starters, if you haven’t yet logged in, you’ll find you need to do so with your USERNAME and password, not your email address as previously. Many of you did not have a unique user name and we’ve had to create one for you. If you find that you’re unable to log in, you should click on the link
http://www.practicalcaravan.com/user/password
to ask for a new one. You’ll be sent a one-time login, where you’ll be able to change your password and username to something more memorable (provided the username doesn’t exist already)
There are a few new things to learn:
1) Avatar uploads
- To upload your avatar, go to your 'My account' page, click 'Edit' and scroll down to the section labelled 'Picture'.
Here you can upload your picture – Maximum dimensions are 85x85 pixels and the maximum size is 30 kB – and, once you've confirmed your password, click 'save' to update your account details.
2) Picture uploads should work, too!
- To upload a picture, you'll first need to have it stored on a site such as Flickr or Picasa.
Copy the URL of the picture, then click the little 'tree' symbol on the menu bar of the Forum posting window, paste in the URL, and click the 'insert' button.
Pictures should be no wider than 400px – there’s an option to set this in that box.
More picture-posting advice in this thread.
3) Links, when typed into a Forum post, will automatically become clickable. No need to do all that HTML stuff: just type a web address, and it becomes a link.
4) To reply to a post, click the 'reply' button below the post in question. To quote the post in your answer, click 'quote' instead of reply, go to the end of the text, and after the end quote tag, which is [ /quote] start typing your reply.
Please note you can edit down the quoted text to just quote the bit you want – no point in quoting a whole post and its picture when you're only responding to one point in the post. Just ensure the bit of text has the [ quote=username ] tag in front of it, and the [ /quote ] after it.
5) To post your thoughts, click 'save' or, if you want to see how things will look before posting, click 'preview' first.
6) The 'Flag as offensive' is for anything you think the moderators should have a look at - click this button, fill out the short form it brings up, and click 'send'.
One more thing – you'll no longer be able to edit your comment once it's been replied to. Just saves arguments about who actually said what...
Lastly – in transferring the forum to our new servers, some of the content that you;ve posted in the last 24 hours has been left behind – don’t worry, it’s all safe and it should be back in place by the end of the day!
Any problems, don’t hesitate to contact us at practical.caravan@haymarket.com
Cheers!
JD
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