Welcome to the "New" Deep South Star Gaze Message Board

A few assorted notes and points


Images

At this point in time, it's possible to attach images to posts. There is a 1 MB limit per post -- However, as a free board we have a not-huge finite limit to the (total) size of attached images. Also, attached images will be appended to the bottom of the message as an attachment, not "in-lined" in your text. So if you want to include an image in a post, the preferred way to do it is to link to the image using the Insert Image button above:



For example, that little screen shot above was not attached, but was inserted using that button. It actually exists on the web -- in this case, on the little bit of personal web space I get automatically from my ISP. But there are other image sharing and hosting sites available, many free. Now such a small image will hardly eat into our shared storage significantly, but it becomes important when we start looking at larger photos, for example. The same link-based approach can be used for videos.

In the long run if we run short on space, 'official' imagery (such as group photos, maps, etc.) will take precedence and we'll have to decide whether to delete some existing images and/or disable attachments. But hopefully we won't get there - Just a heads-up.


Help

There's a reasonably complete help system online - Just click the "Help" menu button below the DSSG logo.


Your personal profile

To customize your experience, upload an avatar and so forth, click the "Profile" menu button, then click the "Edit Profile" button near the upper right corner.


Miscellaneous tip #47

In the message editor, there are two tabs at the lower left. "Preview" will show you a WYSIWYG (remember that word? ) display of your fully formatted message. However, if you copy and paste something it won't preserve the formatting. To do that, switch to the "BBCode" tab and copy / paste from there instead (but be sure to include the formatting codes as well). You can then switch back to Preview and edit text as you'd expect.