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Tony Bev


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Hello to all Grey Nomads

I hope that this is the site for this type of post

As a newbie I was finding it a little difficult to navigate around this site, as I am not normally a member of any forum.

I sincerely hope that I am not standing on any toes. I have put together some of the navigation tips which I came across from reading other members posts.

As at this particular period in time, I do not know what I do not know.

I am hoping that some of the more knowledgeable members will fill in the rest of the gaps.

What I have found in alphabetical order

Notification by email that someone has replied to your new topic

                Acknowledging

                Wombat post # 10946

Go to the site you wish the topic to be in (A Newbie like me would go to the --- Read Forum Rules & Introduce Yourself Here --- site

            Just before you submit a new tropic, place a click in the (lower left of page) where it says

Email me whenever there is a new post on this topic  

Posting a link

Acknowledging

V ic41 post # 482

Type in your reply window a name or complete URL name to signifies it is a link to somewhere

Before you submit your post click on Edit

When in the edit window highlight the link you had pasted, (or name for the link) and then click on the link icon ( which looks like a chain link)

An --- Insert/Edit link --- window appears paste your link into the --- Link URL --- box

Select Open Link in New Window in the --- Target box ---

Type something in the --- Title box --- (which should now be the title of your link in your reply window. Which did not work for me

Click on the Insert button within the Insert/Edit link box

Submit your reply

This is what comes up in your post window --- A link to somewhere useful ---

 

Posts how to find the most recent ones

Acknowledging

JCT but lost the post number (and could never find it again)

Click on the link below

http://thegreynomads.activeboard.com/p/recent/

Replying to someones post

           Acknowledging

Happywanderer post # 11770

In the particular part of the topic you wish to reply to, click on --- Quote --- within that persons window of the topic --- type your reply --- when you click on Submit the other persons quote should be within your reply window.

Searching for something

           Acknowledging

Dougwe post # 11268

Click on --- Search --- in the blue band (between the merchandise and posts  --- click within the search box which appears --- type in the word of information you are searching for eg solar or battery --- if there is a topic with that name in the heading it will show up

 

I did read one post (dated around 2011) which mentioned that there was a --- Posting How To ---  link, near the Submit button, but I could not find it while I was experimenting, (err playing around) on my original Introduction topic post. I now find it while I am submitting this post, but it is only about HTML and not about navigating the site



-- Edited by Tony Bev on Wednesday 2nd of March 2016 12:58:34 AM



-- Edited by Tony Bev on Wednesday 2nd of March 2016 01:00:04 AM

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You can simply paste a URL into the Quick Reply box. It will be automatically "linkified". Sometimes there are special characters which mess up the linkification, in which case you will need to use the Advanced Editor.

This forum's search engine is abyssmally poor. It gives at most 5 results. A much better way to search this forum is via Google's Advanced Search.

https://www.google.com.au/advanced_search

Alternatively you can simply replace "%s" with your search term(s) in the following URL:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%s+site:thegreynomads.activeboard.com

For example ...

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=solar+OR+battery+site:thegreynomads.activeboard.com



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dorian wrote:

You can simply paste a URL into the Quick Reply box. It will be automatically "linkified". Sometimes there are special characters which mess up the linkification, in which case you will need to use the Advanced Editor.

This forum's search engine is abyssmally poor. It gives at most 5 results. A much better way to search this forum is via Google's Advanced Search.

https://www.google.com.au/advanced_search

Alternatively you can simply replace "%s" with your search term(s) in the following URL:

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%s+site:thegreynomads.activeboard.com

For example ...

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=solar+OR+battery+site:thegreynomads.activeboard.com

Hello Dorian

Thank you for that advice, it has been appreciated. This is something that I was not aware of, and I am sure that it will be very useful for others and myself in the future.

 



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dorian wrote:

This forum's search engine is abyssmally poor. It gives at most 5 results. A much better way to search this forum is via Google's Advanced Search.

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Comments regarding the functionality of the site should be welcome. In fact the reason that URLs are automatically linkified in the Quick Reply box is because I contacted the software developer(s) and requested the feature.

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dorian wrote:

Comments regarding the functionality of the site should be welcome. In fact the reason that URLs are automatically linkified in the Quick Reply box is because I contacted the software developer(s) and requested the feature.

 Should be..... totally agree, then I supose there are so many viewing ths web site who have so much time on there hands they link nothing better than scrolling page after page to find the info they want.  IMHO the search on this forum only works well if you search the exact phrase that was posted.



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