New forums – Read me
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As you’ve noticed, we have new forum software.
1. To log into this forum, use the email address and password you created when you bought your membership. If you’ve forgotten your password, use the ‘Lost Password’ link.
From now on, use only your email address and this password to log into anywhere on this site.
For security reasons, you get five attempts at logging in and then you’re locked out for 20 minutes. If you’re locked out, the Lost Password function will not work. If necessary, you can email us and we can create a new password for you.
You can log in on any forum page or through the “Login” link in the top menubar. Once logged in, the “Login” link in the top menubar changes to “My Account”. Clicking on My Account takes you to your NPAC account which is used to renew your membership, update your contact information or update your profile.
2. When you create a forum post, there’s no longer a preview option. But you have about 35 minutes to (re)edit or rethink your post.
3. The area where you compose your post has two editors: Visual (rich text) and Text (plain text). For most purposes, the two are more or less the same but you can’t always switch back and forth between the two in mid-post or when re-editing. If you do switch back and forth, very rarely your post might disappear. If this happens, switch back to the other editor and your post should reappear. Switching back and forth may also remove any rich text formatting you maybe using.
The Visual editor is more or less WYSIWYG and it lets you insert multiple line breaks and multiple spaces between words. The Text editor does not.
4. If you want to upload a photo into your post, use the Visual editor which has a tiny image icon in the toolbar just above the area where you’re typing. Keep the image (jpeg or png) under 800px wide and under 500 KB in size.
In the Text editor, you can link to a photo on your web site by using the Text editor’s IMG button by typing code like this:
<img src="http://www.your-domain.com/path/to/your-photo.jpg" />5. When logged in and viewing the forums, you can click on your name near the top-left of the page after “Hello” or on the forum front-page sidebar. This will take you to a page to create a forum signature.
6. Custom avatars are done through Gravatar.com. Your Gravatar avatar is then associated to the email address you registered with Gravatar.
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