How do I post a photo to the forums?

You Must Be A Registered Member to post photos to the VMOA Forums.
Here are the instructions on how to post a picture to your post inside the forum:

Posting photos to individual posts in the VMOA Forums
This tutorial will attempt to take you step by step through the proccess of posting to the VMOA Forums incuding posting active links, e-mail addresses and Photos to "New Topic" or "Reply" posts. Please read this entire tutorial as there are many features built into these forums.

Once you have selected to either answer (reply) to an existing post or you have select to start a "New Topic" in one of the forums you will see the "Mini Editor" in the center of your screen.

If you have selected a "reply" posting you will see to the right of "Subject:" the "Re:" along with the original posts subject, of that thread. If you have selected to begin a "New Topic" this text box will be empty... This is where you type in what htis post is about.

Directly under the "Subject:" heading you will see "Message Icon:". To the right is a series of small icons along with "radio buttons". By selcting on of these Icons, by clicking on its corresponding radio button you will attach that Icon to the listing of posts for that forum. I have selected the ! icon for this post... check it out in the listing.

Next, as you move down the "Mini Editor" you will see "Message: To the right is a large box that contains all of the actual composition features for executing your post.

The First line of Icon buttons contains:

The "Link" button (it is the Chain Icon). This button allows you to input any URL into your post I.E.:
VMOA website
When you click on this Icon a small window opens with an empty text input box... It asks you to input the URL of the link you want to add... You must put in the entire URL including the http://www. When you click on the "OK" button another small window opens withan empty text input box. Here is where you can type in the way you want the link to look like... you can either place the URL http:www.whatever.com or you, As I did in the example, just type in some text which will become the link.

Next is the "E-Mail" Icon... This link will insert an e-mail link into the body of your post. A similar small window will open with an empty text input box for you to type in the e-mail address you want inserted into your post. For example wizard@dilligaf.com.

The Next Icon Button is that of a small photo. This is the "Photo URL" button, This is the Icon to use if you want to insert a photo from another website. When you click this button a small window will open with an empty text input box for you to type in the entire URL of the photo you want to insert into your post and then it asks you how you want it aligned.

The Next Icon is the "Photo Manager". When you select this option a small window will open and you will see a small drop down box with "--" in it, click on the drop down arrow. You will see four catagories "Regions", "General", "VBoost Covers" and "Banners" select "General" and then click on the 'Go" Button. The "General" folder will open and you will see all of the Images in that file... You can select any of the images in the file by clicking on the "alignment" icons on the very right of the window, (you might have to expand this window to see all of the options). At the top of this window you will see a text link that says "Add Image File" To add an Image to the "General" folder click this link... When you do, another small window will open and you will see the add an image form. This also gives you the image parameters that are allowed for uploading your photos to this folder. First fill out the name of this Photo I.E. "My VMax". Next an empty text input box if you know the URL of a particular photo, (This actually copies the photo from that URL and placses a copy into the Image Folder). If the Image resides on your computers hard drive click on the "Browse" button and navigate to the folder on your local machine and click on the file. If it meets the size parameters it will appear in the Image window and then you can select that image by clicking on the "alignment" Icon of your choice. Your Image will be placed into the body of your post.

The next Icon is the "Code" button. This is for those of you who know something about HTML code... If you do not know HTML code just disregaurd this Icon....

The last Icon on this line is the "Quote" button. This button opens a small window with an empty text input bow for you to type in text you want to appear in your post in a "Quote" box I.E.:

The next line has 3 drop down boxes and is used for inpuuting special text that you want to Highlight by size, font & color.. The first says "Size" Click on the Arrow and select the size of the font you want to use... next click on the arrow in the "Font" box and select the font you want... Next click on the arrow of the "Color" box and select the Color you want...

Under these drop down boxes are some other "Font" option Icons... Selct the one you want and then type the Text you want all of these option to affect into the empty text input box... when you are done type , click add, this will insert your Highlited text into your post. I.E.:

This is just a sample there are many variations you can select!

The next area of the "Mini Editor" is the actual "Body" of your post. It is the large empty text input box... this is where you will type whatever it is you want.

Under the "Body" box are series of "Smileys" you can selct as many as you want and they will be inserted into your post.

Finally are some "Options" They should all be self explainatory.

I hope this answers all of your questions about how to use all of the features of the VMOA Forums.

Now it's time for a

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Later/Steve
Webmaster

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