Basic Mechanics/How-to

[Lunagel]

MAN WE DIDN'T HAVE ONE WHATS WRONG WITH US

I guess this thread will be full of most generic "how-to" questions.

ALSO HERP DERP I MADE THIS THREAD BEFORE I SAW THE SECOND PAGE ON THE RULES THREAD I'M STUPID HURRR

Q: How do I signature?

A: On your profile page, click the modify profile option. On that page, there will be a box to put a signature in. Copypasta an image in there with image tags, like so:

[img]www.site.com/image.jpg[/img]
Note: We don't have strict sig regulations, but do use common sense when using an image. Don't use a gif that lags the whole page (Someone on TSv1 actually had one). Don't make it huge vertically so we have to scroll down forever to get to the next post.

Horizontally, your limit is 900 pixels. Any longer, and you will stretch the page. For reference, this is 900 pixels:



Also, if you use TS as well, do note that their limit is much smaller at 700 pixels:



But that may not apply as they have scroll bars.

Since I did sigs, I may as well do avatars too...

HOW TO AVATAR:

Use the direct link (www.site.com/image.jpg), and paste that into the Avatar url box. The limit is 100 x 100 pixels, but if you must use something bigger, you can put it in and the forum automatically shrinks it to 100 x 100. Excercise caution when doing that because it can stretch your Modify Profile page to hell:


It looks fine here...


Holy shit!

Edit by Frees: Also, be careful when using big images for your avatar, because the forum has to load the bigger image and then shrink it down to 100 x 100, so if it's too big, it slows the whole thing down. If this gets to be an actual problem (which I doubt it will), I have codes that prevent you from having an image larger than 100 x 100 for your avatar. Don't make me use them.

And this goes both ways, so if you have an avatar smaller than 100 x 100, you must specify its dimensions in the the "avatar height" and "avatar width" boxes, or else the forum will automatically stretch it to 100 x 100.

This is probably not too common, as 100 x 100 is the standard for avatars pretty much everywhere, so most avatars are already that size.

so yeah. Any basic mechanics questions go here?

[FreeFallForAll]

Added a bit more explanation to the sizing of avatars.

How to Profile Music:
Enter the YouTube URL of a video of the song you want in the "Profile Music" box when you modify your profile. I don't know if it works with other URLs as well.

Take note, though, that the way the profile music code works is that it stores the music in your personal text, so if that's too long, your personal text ends up looking like this:



and the music won't play when you go to your profile. You can have up to and including 53 characters in your personal text for your profile music to work.

[Lunagel]

^ Um, I did all of that, and it still doesn't work for some reason. Is it incompatible with IE?

My epic failure knows no bounds~

[FreeFallForAll]

Jan 6, 2011 23:10:08 GMT -5 Lunagel said:

^ Um, I did all of that, and it still doesn't work for some reason. Is it uncompatible with IE?

My epic failure knows no bounds~

There are certain browsers it's not compatible with, but I don't know which ones. The support forums say it should be compatible with IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari, but it doesn't work on Firefox for me. I can hear your music on Chrome, so I guess you can just experiment with different browsers until it works or just not bother listening to it.

[Kaen the 604st]

It says I need an additional plugin in order for it to work.

But it won't say which one. :\ derp.

Also, how do I get the spoiler thingy to say something other than "spoiler"?

[Lunagel]

^My firefox said that too. But IE just didn't do anything lawl.

To get your spoilers to say something else, put

[sp0iler=TEXT][/sp0iler]

I had to turn the o's into 0's because the code shower didn't work with spoilers.

And as you've seen, it turns out like this!

SPOILER: Click to show

Peekaboo!