Donnas dreamhouse

As everyone is aware the forum is free and always will be free but some people do appreciate the help and often want to make donations. I'm not keen on many charities as many are large corporations who's directors earn hundreds of thousands of pounds per year. recently I was watching TV and saw a brief clip of Donnas Dreamhouse which is a charity that looks after terminally ill children and their families. ...

Pictures often help people get a better idea of the situation and so posting pictures is often beneficial to everyone involved.

We have a dedicated forum modification for posting pictures, called the attachment mod. Please use the attachment mod whenever possible, rather than hosting the image on a third party image hosting site.

The problem with hosting the pictures on a third party site is that the pictures are often removed from that site and ...

Here is a flash tutorial of how to Join this forum-

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Here is a tutorial on how to easily resize a photo or hundreds of photo's at the same time using microsoft image resizer. It is a free program and makes resizing pictures very easy.

If you wish to resize pictures to attach them in this forum you should select the 800*600 size.

How to Resize Pictures


The direct link to the microsoft powertoys page is here-

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/down ... rtoys.mspx

Here is a flash tutorial that shows how to attach a picture to a post in the forum.--

http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/attachment.htm

The forum rules can be found here-

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Please read the rules and ensure that you understand them fully

Microsoft Photo editor seems to come as standard on all pc's that are using windows, so here is how to resize pictures so that they can be used with the attachment mod.

Here I am resizing a picture that is over 500kb in size-

Open up the picture in Photo editor-



Click on Image and then select resize-



On this box select pixels in the drop down menu on the right hand side ...

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Here are the instructions on how to parser a link, this means that you can post a link to a webpage and choose the name of the link, like this- Hinton Heating

Here is how the code looks-



The first portion of the link Is the url where you wish to send people to.

The second part Is the link text that you wish to use.

Once you have implimented this line of ...