I have the script all ready to post on here, but when I try to load the pictures to go with the script from photobucket, I loose all the script that is waiting for the photo’s. Photobucket doesn’t seem to work the way it used to with the old forum so if someone could tell me how to do it I would me most grateful.
You will have to spell it out tho’ as I am a bit of a dumb dumb sometimes when it comes to computers. Mind you, I have got the spell checker to work.[:D]
You will need to have two browser windows open. The new forum does not remember anything you have typed when you click the back button.
Better still. Install the Firefox Browser instead of Internet explorer and you can have “tabs” set up, allowing you to click etween different web sites in the same browser. (I think the new Internet Explorer lets you have tabs too, though I haven’t tried it)
Another alternative would be to type it all in a simple word processor (such as notepad), insert the [img] links in the word processor and then paste it into the forum. If you use Microsoft Word, it will copy additional formatting tags that don’t work on this forum.
Still, this is the improved forum isn’t it? 
Hi halli, I have tried using Firefox when I was having computer problems with that Email Subscription thing and It didn’t solve those problems but gave me a few more so I elected to go back to Internet Explorer.
I will try the two browser windows to see how I get on.
The Note Pad method works but when I paste it into “Post a New Thread” and then I click on the Preview button to see what it will look like, and I then see that it needs some modifications, so I then press the back button and I loose everything again. If I had some hair, I would be tearing it all out by now.
This new forum doesn’t encourage members to write threads with pictures to describe what they have been up to. Until today I thought I was getting the hang of this forum but I am as p********d off as ever now.[:(]
On the old forum the Preview option allowed you to see what would be actually posted and if there were any mistakes you could correct them. That doesn’t seem to be the case with this forum. Can’t quite see what the Preview button is for really.
Don’t clck back, click on the Compose tab to go back to editing.
Thanks halli, that works ok. Will try to post the thread of “How to make your own Glass Wind blocker” tomorrow.[:)]
Looking forward to it 
There’s a pictorial link showing how it works here
http://mx5oc.co.uk/forum/forums/t/1429.aspx
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 has a multi tab option which works very well.
I have loaded a lot of stuff into the tech faq sections using word as the source. This forum makes a much better job of the copy paste than the old forum ever did.
This forum also keeps all picture links when you copy from elsewhere. Again a lot of the faq was done this way, doing similar things in the old forum was a nightmare. Pollys very excellent article about detailing would not have been transferred into the old forum, as all the picture links would be lost
A nice feature, if you need it, is the ability to show proper tables using word.
Yep this is the improved forum
When I get to the page that you have to register on photobucket, I can’t click on the blue http://register.photobucket.com/ to work as I don’t have the pointer only the sketch of a hand, that you use to move a window about with.
‘Fraid I’ve given up on posting pics’. Maybe someday when I’ve nothing better to do and have a lot more patience than I do right now, I’ll have another go. After all, I solved ny editing and spellcheck problems with some perseverance. (Although I still can’t get around how to ‘Quote’. I just use coloured text instead.)
I know exactly what you mean and feel like. After reading your post I had a sudden flash of intelligence, something I am not prone to very much with computers. [:)]
I highlighted your thread and then clicked on Quote and abracadabra they you are.
Mind you I don’t know yet how to show all the smileys, when I click on the Insert Smiley button, I only get a few to choose from.
Polly, if you have a hand, you must be hovering over an active element on the photobucket page. Move your pointer to somewhere else which has no text and no pictures and left click the mouse. You should get a vertical line or a pointer, let me know how you get on
Hi Geoff, have tried what you suggested but nothing changed, I still have the hand instead of the pointer. I didn’t have a pointer when I opened that page, that changed to a hand, it was the hand from opening the page.
Pollyanna - I’m using Firefox.
If I move cursor over phot-bucket pic the arrow changes to a hand and a drop-down opens giving various tags for help in posting link/image/etc to other sites, emails, etc.
Clicking on one of these and a “Copied” appears, then I can Paste that link into another doc / forum post / etc.
Do you get this?
As for the OC forum, well Good Luck! as it seems to be an entity all on it’s own… [+o(]
(Apologies for spekking - I’m on Firefox and Spell-Checker is not available or has been disabled). [:(]
56 smileys?
This was answer I found in a similar thread.
There should be a Smiley face in the ToolBar when you’re creating a post - click on that, and a handful of Smilies appear.
- there’s not many of them, but this will be sorted out when the forum get’s all it’s problems resolved
Lol - just counted - I only get 56 too (the old MSN ones).
2nd attempt… [6]
I checked - I get 56 too - the old MSN ones.
I am using Internet Explorer and, No I can’t get the same thing to happen as you describe.