This thread is for tips & tricks on how to use these forums, specifically the phpBB software, which may have functionality or ways of doing things that not everyone is fully familiar with.
These posts will supplement the existing
FAQ/Help files.
Lets start with a very common requirement:
Posting images as attachments.
If you have an image that is already online somewhere, you can insert it into your post using the IMG bbCode, but this will present the image in it's raw resolution.
The more common, and tidier, scenario is that the image is located somewhere on your computer, and you want to present it in your post as a thumbnail/reduced size version that readers can click on to view the full photo. First, get the image on to the SWNZ Server, using the "Upload Attachment" form, which can be found just below the main post window and buttons. It looks like this:
Hit "Browse", find the file on your computer, type a title/description/comment in the "File comment" box (optional), and select "Add the file". You can upload multiple photos, in a single post, by repeating this process. As a minimum, that's all you need to do. If you complete and submit your post at this point, the attached image will appear at the end of your post. A section below the main post forum will confirm that the attachment has uploaded, and allow you to delete it if you change your mind, thus (if you click on the link provided as the photo filename, you can review the image):
If, instead of having the pics at the end of your post, you instead want to structure your post with photos
inline with your text (eg, between paragraphs, such as in the post you are reading right now), then, once attachments are uploaded, there is a subtle additional line below the main post forum which allows you to select between your uploaded photos (if there are more than one), and "Place [them] inline".
You won't
see the photo in your post,
until it is actually submitted. What you will instead see is a bbCode placeholder that looks like the following. You can just continue to add text around this placeholder.
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[attachment=1]Uploaded_Attachment3.jpg[/attachment]
