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Tips on new website.
If you have any tips, hints, etc regarding the new-look website, please post them here.
I, for one, would be grateful if someone would summarise how 'whisper your comments to' works/what it's for; and how to get an icon/avatar against your name. And also when to use the 'search' that's on the left-hand side of the screen.
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This is a test whisper directly to you, Jay. As far as I know, nobody else can see it. It will be appearing on your screen with one difference - It should have some mention by the comment or my user name that it is, in fact, a whisper.
You can reply to me privately by hitting 'reply to whisper' which should also appear on your screen.
To begin a whispered thread or message, type the person's user name you wish to contact, into the little box directly above the 'Enter your comments' box. This will enable you to contact that person privately.
As far as the avatar's go, someone suggested to set up an account with Photo Bucket. You can then use their search facility to find a suitable pic or icon and download it into your own Photobucket album. (That's what I did for the palm tree and photo of chocolate on my profile.) You then copy and paste the 'direct' link from your chosen pic into the appropriate section of your personal profile in your Talkback account.
I hope you understand all that. I'm not too computer literate myself so if I can do it, I'm sure you'll find it a breeze. Let me know how you get on.
I'm not unduly worried about not having an icon, not at the moment anyway. I do like seeing the others, though.
Has anyone found a way to look at all their own posts? If so, how do you do it? If not, is it something we need?
Thanks again NC x
Obviously there was only one D, Dorothy.
Also Daisy, Davaaris and DianaW have been seen very recently, too.
Go to Search, leave field blank, click on Users, and then press Search (or something like that). Then go to next page etc..
On the main Talkback discussion page, you will find the word 'New'. Beside it, is a number. Numbers in red indicate the number of new (unread) posts for each discussion/thread (although 'old' discussions/threads brought forward from the previous Talkback system may show everything as unread). If your eyesight is good, you will also see that the background colour is a pale yellow (discussions which have no unread posts have white backgrounds).
Smilies, anyone?
;-) or ;) :-) :-(
The first two are winks: semi colon, hyphen, close bracket (or leave out the hyphen)
The next is a smile: colon, hyphen, close bracket
The next is an unhappy face: colon, hyphen, open bracket.
The following will not work on this site:
@:-} It means: just back from the hairdresser.
(((Talkbackers)))
By the way, I've no idea how long you have to edit a post.
Going nowhere, idiot female that I am, I am suggesting 15 minutes!
topics
comments and
users
To search on a particular page of a thread, do the following:
Edit (your computer's edit, not the post's edit)
Find on this page
[insert word]
Find next
Choose your seach/find word with care. If you don't know if it's procrastinates, procrastinate or procrastination, use procratinat