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Posting tips & tricks
« on: December 14, 2019, 01:12:25 pm »
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Learning how to use the forums can be confusing at first but after a bit of practice and experience it gets easier. To help you get the the experienced stage it's nice to have resources that help you figure out how to do things.

There's a wonderful, in-depth, &  comprehensive guide here that goes from the basics right up to more complex things and how you can post those. I found this useful when I started (and still refer back to it sometimes) so I definitely recommend you check it out.

There have also been a couple of things I've learnt since then which I'll be including in this shorter guide.

Linking to a specific post
If you want to link to one post in particular rather than the page the post is on, then you should right click on the blue link at the top of the post, select to copy the url and bam! you have the link you wanted. It's then just a matter of putting the link in your post.

You could just paste it in like this:
https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=151609.msg1017150#msg1017150

Or you could embed the url into a word or phrase
Code: [Select]
[url=https://atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=151609.msg1017150#msg1017150]First VCE biology question of 2018[/url]
First VCE biology question of 2018

Whenever someone is quoted, the quote automatically contains a link to that post.


Emojis
If you want to include emojis using forum code, there's a fantastic thread here that lists the code required for different emojis.

For example,
Code: [Select]
[ emoji170]


Image embedding

Imo, the easiest way to do this is as follows:
- go to imgur
- upload your images
- select to share the image using BBCode
- copy the code to your post
- preview your post and check all is well. If you want to change the size of your image I recommend previewing after each time you adjust this

The most common mistake people make is that they grab the wrong link and try putting that into their post. For example, in my forum navigation aid I used images like this:



Here's the code I used just now:
Code: [Select]
[img width=200]https://i.imgur.com/KCRudPZ.png[/img]
Often, what people do is this:
https://imgur.com/a/e9mRm0V
Code: [Select]
[img width=200]https://imgur.com/a/e9mRm0V[/img]
If you follow both of those links, you'll see that for the code that works the link only has the image you want. In comparison, the faulty code takes you to the page you see after uploading your images.

Note: Brenden's guide shows how to embed a post using a different method for getting the url you want.