Tech Board FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - check here for a quick answer

[Mary Jo]

The following links answer frequent tech questions and provide useful information for enhancing your posts with clipart and fonts.

I recommend opening them in a new window so you can have the information handy as you test these hints out in your own post. To open in a new window, right-click on the link. A little menu will pop up. Click on the option to open in new window. (Mackie users ~ hold the mouse button down until the menu pops up)

Abbreviations - Common abbreviations used on the boards.

.art files - Bob Brazeal's Link to Convert .art Files to .bmp or .jpg

Avatars - How to add an avatar (the picture under your name.)

Can't post - How come I can no longer post?

Chat - This link takes you there

Clipart - Clipart Primer on how to get those cute pictures in your signature.

Clipart - Signature Guidelines

Cookie Clearing - Having strange trouble on the boards? Try manually clearing your DIS cookies.

Editing your profile, signature or title

Email Notifications - Stopping - Subscribing to threads and handling email notifications

Email Notifications - Not Getting - Why am I no longer getting email notifications?

Font Hints - MJ's hints on changing the color, type, size and behavior of your text

Gifs, Jpegs and Bmps - The Cricket's Excellent Explanation of Gifs, Jpegs, and Bmps...

Links - How do I add a link to my DIS auction items in my signature or anywhere else for that matter?

Log in/Log out Problems - FAQ for login problems and cookie clearing

Logout - Click me to Logout

Photographs - How do I post a photograph?

Registration Problems - I can't register or I registered but I can't post.

Resizing Clipart and Photographs - MJ's instructions to resize clipart and photographs.

Resizing Photographs - Kathy's instructions for resizing photos on your computer

Resizing Photos - Need to Resize a Photo? Here's a Free Program

Search - Why can't I search?

Signature Guidelines

Smilies - Spottie's Super Stupendous Smilie Station

Spyware - Spyware and hijacked browser cleanup tips

Subscribing to threads - Subscribing to thread and handling email notifications

Time display - Changing the time display on the boards

Titles & Tags - How can I get those words under my name or make them in color?

Viruses, Trojans and Worms - What are they and how do I avoid or get rid of them?