I'm adding a few more, due to recent posts I've seen on the board.
How to get an image off the net:
Right-click on it, then choose Save As. Choose where you want to put it on your PC.
How to take screenshots:
The act of taking a screenshot captures an image of what is on the screen at that moment. It is good if you want to get an image off the net, but can't because the site is Flash- or Shockwave-based, for example (which would prevent you from obtaining the image using the mthod above). It is also good for showing people what your desktop looks like.
1) Once what you want is on the screen, press 'Print Scrn | SysRq'. It's a button on your keyboard, and it should be located above your 'Insert' , 'Home, 'Delete' and 'End' buttons, and between F12 and Scroll Lock.
2) Open Paint, and go to Edit, then Paste. If it asks you if you want to enlarge the bitmap to accomodate the image, choose 'Yes'.
3) If you don't want an image of the entire screen, you can then chop off the bits you don't need.
Now here's a cool one...
How to cheat the system!
The rules currently state that:
Concerning text:
- With an image, you cannot exceed 4 lines of TEXT (Not SPACE)
- Without an image, you cannot exceed 6 lines (Including SPACE)
So, if you want a signature like this (I'm just using that pic because I've got the url handy right now, it's not relevant to what I'm saying):
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Then you'd be asked to change it. But you don't want to have to get rid of one of those 5 cool quotes you've got, do you?
Nobody can complain if you've got this, though:
| Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
Line 7
|
That sig has
seven lines of text, without taking up any more vertical space than 125 pixels (the board maximum for signature images)!
The secret to this is tables. HTML tables are used to add structure to pages. They're good for displaying tables of information, obviously, but I (among squillions of others) use them in my webpages just to organise stuff.
The 'cheating' sig above uses a table. Individual table boxes are called cells. The image is in one cell, and the text is in another, immediately to its right.
Here's the code used:
<table border="0">
Normally, <table> is used to start table code. But you need to include the 0 pixels border dimension in order to keep the sig clean, otherwise it'll show a dirty great outline round each cell, which is ugly. Note that that code won't work in webpages which use Javascript in their head tags in order to have the borders a specific colour as opposed to the browser's default. However, this board doesn't do such a thing, so that code will work fine here. If you want a border, replace the "0" with a number, which will define the number of pixels wide the border is.
<tr>
This tag (tags are the name for little bits of code which tell a computer what to do with the HTML inside them) starts a table row. We only need the one row for this table.
<td>
This opens a table cell. Now anything you put down will appear on the screen as being inside this cell.
<img src="image url here, no spaces" align="center">
You should recognise this if you've been reading the topic from the start. This is the code to display an image.
</td>
This closes the cell so you can start a new one.
<td>
Starts a new cell. This is the cell we'll be putting the text in.
<font size="2">
That tag is self explanatory. You should put it in because otherwise it'll display the text in the browser's default size, which in a lot of browsers is size 3, and that'll look ugly.
Line 1
Your stupendous text. You can use whatever effect tags you like on it, including font size (which we've just done), colour, marquee, linking, etc. Don't go overboard!
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
Line 7
</font>
Closes the font effect tags.
</td>
Closes the cell.
</tr>
Closes the row, so you can add another. But we won't
</table>
Ends the table code.
I spaced it out so you could see it easily. However, since the board treats all line breaks as <br> tags (stand-alone tags on a webpage which start a new line), if you just put that code in your sig it could look messed up. You should 'squash' the code so it looks like this:
<table border="0"><tr><td>
<img src="image url here, no spaces" align="center"></td><td><font size="2">Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
Line 7</font>
</td></tr></table>
And be careful! If you even mess up
one of those tags, the whole thing will look f*cked up. Also, I used an image in my examples that was rather small, width-wise. This 'cheat' sig could look ugly with a big 400-pixel-wide banner.
The best course of action is not to put the code in your sig right away, but to go to a Reply screen, pop the code in there, and click
'Preview Reply' (not Submit Reply). This will show you what it looks like, without actually making a post and thus spamming the board.