Suggestions, problems and queries.

[Yorkie]

I just mark the whole thread as "read" and don't even look at them.    WWW

[hollins]

I often have a problem if I want to use part of a quote rather repeat the whole thing. My reply always comes within the quote.
I have seen other people do it correctly so I know it is pilot error on my behalf. Could someone explain what I am dong wrong please?

[Trojan]

I often have a problem if I want to use part of a quote rather repeat the whole thing. My reply always comes within the quote.
I have seen other people do it correctly so I know it is pilot error on my behalf. Could someone explain what I am dong wrong please?

Make sure your reply is typed-in after the..... [/quote].....at the end of the previous posters sentence. 

[Blodyn]

I often have a problem if I want to use part of a quote rather repeat the whole thing. My reply always comes within the quote.

I find that the easiest way to quote part of a post is to start off quoting the whole thing, delete the bits I don't want, then type my own comments as Trojan says. 

[Trojan]

I often have a problem if I want to use part of a quote rather repeat the whole thing. My reply always comes within the quote.

I find that the easiest way to quote part of a post is to start off quoting the whole thing

Ah I see what you mean. I just quoted part of your sentence by inserting my cursor before the....[/quote] then I "back spaced" until I deleted what I didn't need.

[Ian]

I often have a problem if I want to use part of a quote

Mouse-swipe (select) the part of the text you want to quote, copy, hit the 'quote' button (above) then paste.  The copied bit appears neatly as a quote.

[Blodyn]

I find that doesn't show who the quote's from. 

[DaveR]

My usual way is to just press 'Quote' and then make sure you start your reply after the [ /quote ] bit. You can delete any of the bits of the quote you don't want but just make sure that it starts with [ quote ] and ends with [ /quote ] or it won't work.

[Ian]

I find that doesn't show who the quote's from.

It doesn't, but the quote itself is usually recognisable, because it's rare that anyone quotes from more than a few posts previously.

[Fester]

Ian! 
You have been officially removed from the Missing Persons list. 

[Ian]

 

[martin]

I have an old postcard of Conwy sent from here in 1916 that I want to put on the site but I am a bit unsure of a few things.  I see the maximum file size is 1024 KB is that just over 1 MB?, also, what is the best file type to use, Jpeg?, I have Photoshop so I can mess around with the scan, but again, I am not sure what resolution to do that on, I suppose it is not worth doing it on to higher one as I will just have to reduce it to send.  I imagine there is an optimum  canvas size to enable it to display correctly on the site, so any help and advice would be appreciated.

[DaveR]

If you resize the pic down so that its longest side is about 650 pixels, then save it as a jpeg with a file size of around 100k, that should be fine.  Not worth doing a resolution higher than about 150pixels.

[martin]

Thanks DaveR.        I would not have been able to do it without you that's for sure,  in the past when I have scanned photo's they have always displayed football pitch size so I knew I needed to get them cut down before I posted on the site.  Took me ages in Photoshop finding out how to alter the pixels, I tried just about every button, must have saved about 20 attempts of the card before finding how to do it, simple when you know how.  Thanks again for your help.

[DaveR]