[Class A]

But I was hoping that these tutorials would cover at some point how to respond to posts.

I agree it would make sense to add another tutorial on how to reply to posts.

It could contain some guidelines, for example, I think one should encourage people not to simply quote a post in full if one only refers to one small part of it. In particular, this applies if the quoted post contains a number of large images. Often one sees threads where someone posts a series of images and then somebody quotes them all only to add "Nice images" at the end. This doesn't help with scrolling through posts and keeping the bandwidth low.

I understand that not everyone will want to do this, you might want to add the following hint how to reply to multiple points from a previous post.

This is how the original quote may look like when I start the reply:

[quote=Jools;1044177]
Very nicely done, Adam.
A lot of information to digest but good to know where to come to seek answers on how to navigate the site.
[/quote]

I then replicate the "quote" tags (copy & paste), insert my responses, to make it look like:

[quote=Jools;1044177]
Very nicely done, Adam.
[/quote]
Yeah, I agree.

[quote=Jools;1044177]
A lot of information to digest but good to know where to come to seek answers on how to navigate the site.
[/quote]
I thought the same!

This then looks as follows:

Very nicely done, Adam.

Yeah, I agree.

A lot of information to digest but good to know where to come to seek answers on how to navigate the site.

I thought the same!

[Class A]

Another tutorial should discuss various ways of including images. A popular choice is to include images from one's Flickr photostream.

For two reasons images should link back to the flickr page they are hosted on:

1. Viewers can go to your flickr page and leave comments and/or view other image sizes.
2. Flickr requires you to do so.

Here's how to do it:

Assuming your image is at

HTML Code:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/class_a/2914249543/

Select the size you want (from "All Sizes" above the image), e.g., "small". The page offers you a box called "Grab the photo's URL:" which in this case is

HTML Code:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3635/3566563548_fdffd12f25.jpg

The latter goes into the image tags:

[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2914249543_5fe2778cf0_m.jpg[/img]

Then you simply surround this with "url" tags, using the address of the original flickr page above:

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/class_a/2914249543/]
[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2914249543_5fe2778cf0_m.jpg[/img]
[/url]

Below is the clickable image, using the code shown above (small size used on purpose):

[Adam]

I can put some guidelines together, as I agree this would likely be quite helpful to many. Seeing quoted images isn't fun (although I was under the impression that I had disabled that).

[Adam]

BTW, all BBCode formatting information is already documented here: PentaxForums.com - BB Code List

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[Jools]

Class A, you hit the nail on the head of some of the issues that I have faced in the past. I think everyone wants to contribute, it's just knowing how to do so in a comfortable and proper manner.
Thanks again, Jools. BTW, Adam thanks to your latest post I'll be checking out the FAQ. Certainly something I overlooked in the past. My bad.

[Adam]

There's a handy link to it under the manage account menu. In the future, I think we should consider putting some other handy/informative posts into the FAQ system, for quick and easy reference!

[Ivo_Spohr]

oke thanks

[Lloydy]

Excellent stuff, it's why this forum goes from strength to strength.

[Adam]

A winner has now been drawn; see the OP!

[PeteyJ]

While I knew we had a lot of these features, I never quite knew how to use them. Thanks for taking the time to post this!

[rkohli]

Many thanks for the tutorial.
Very informative.

[ghillindy1]

Thanks for helping me through the dark ages.

[OldPrakticaOwner]

I had the same problem, I have to spread some Reputation around.

[MJHurley]

Thanks, that helps to save some search time.

[cosmicap]

Too much information! Not true - just a lot to soak in. I'm glad these tutorials are embedded for reference. Thanks for all your hard work. All useful.