Attributes are of one of these classes:
| number | This is a class of attributes like age or height. It is only one number so don't try to write '1 m and 89 cm'. Write '189' instead (If you use inches it will be very confusing, so don't do that.). The numbers cannot have decimals. Choosing zero is the same thing as not choosing. |
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| select one | This is attributes like gender. Here you may only choose one of the attributes. You may also choose nothing and look mysterious and lazy. |
| select many | These are attributes like known languages. |
| string | This is a short text like a name. Attributes of text-type can not be of unlimited number of letters, but how many depends. For example, a name can be 255 letters. You are not able to use newlines, but everything else should be OK. |
| text | This is a class of attributes that have longer texts and your description is of this type. Text will be shown as text, but you can use some HTML-codes:
Double newlines will be replaced with the HTML-tag <P>, that is, it will be a new paragraph. Single newlines will be replaced with <BR> (a newline). Double spaces will be replaced with (That is a space in HTML) Links can be written like <URL:http://elftown.lysator.liu.se/>, http://elftown.lysator.liu.se/ , ftp://ftp.sunet.se/ or www.elftown.com . Notice how I have to have a space after all URLs except the first one. Otherwise the link will include unwanted characters. You may create a link to another member by writing [member_username]. You can also inline images with <IMG:http://ew2.lysator.liu.se/gfx/nym.jpg>. Do not inline too large images! If you want to inline images from this site you can change their size by writing one or two numbers before the ':' like this: <IMG100:img/photo/4711_1023447121.jpg> (keeps the current ratio between width and height, but new width will be 100px) or <IMG100*200:img/photo/4711_1023447121.jpg> (image re-sized to 100*200). To link to a poll you can write <POLL:4711> where 4711 is the poll number of the poll you want to link to. To link to a diary-entry write <DIARY:4711> where 4711 is the diary entry number. <GB:4711> links to a guestbook-message, <news:17> to a news and <forum:17> to a forum. If you want a row in italic, begin the row with >. This is mostly used in the forums when you are commenting a large posting and copy text from it. You can also use the HTML-tags <h1>, <h2>, <b>, <i>, <center>, <hr> and <pre> . But if you use them without end-tag (</h1> or </h2>) they will not work. You can also link to a Wiki-page with [wiki_page@wiki]. It is not possible to write something else than the page-name in the link. (Advanced: Between "@wiki" and "]" you can add "edit", version number and/or #where in page (set with <#something>) like this: [page@wikiedit88#hint] takes you to version 88 of "page" with an edit-form at the first <#hint> in it) To link to a module, instead use [module name@modules]. Forum-postings can be linked to with [posting-number], for example [4711]. Private messages can be linked to with [message-number@], for example [4711@]. (Note: Only the sender and receiver can read the message, so this is pretty useless outside of private conversations.) If you want to write those things without making them into links you can add !uQt! somewhere in them like this: <P!uQt!OLL:4711> and the !uQt! will be removed, but the text <POLL:4711> will remain a normal text. You can also put text between <qt></qt> and it will not be treated as pseudo HTML. |
| image | The images are updated separately from the other attributes. You may upload JPEG, GIF and PNG images, but even other formats may work. The image can not be bigger than 500 pixels wide and 1000 pixels height. It must also be less than 1048576 bytes. This should be enough for most images. |
If you find an interesting posting, member, or have a search that you often do (search for all online Spanish speakers for example) you can use the Add-this-page-to-your-notes-button that are on those pages.
No-one else knows what you have noted, it is very private. But to see where your bookmark points, you should note what kind of link it is.
In your message room you can send and receive messages. To send a message just go to a member's house and fill out the form there. You can also reply to one of that member's messages to you. Only the one who sends the message and the receiver can normally read the message. But the staff doesn't guarantee this because sometimes they have to read messages to stop misbehaviour or to fix bugs.
When you press the show-button and the letter is shown you see some things besides the message itself. First is the letter number shown. It is not very interesting, but it feels good to know that your letters are numbered and ordered, doesn't it?
Secondly it tells you from whom this message is and then who the receiver is. Then the date the message was sent, in the international format YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI:SE. The time used is UTC. In the summer it is two hours after the Swedish time, Central European Time (CET), and in the winter the same as English time (CET+1 hour). You can see the current time to the right.
Then you see clickable links to the commented message and to messages that are comments to this message (if there are any). This makes it easy to write answers because the receiver always knows what you are talking about even if you send an answer like "Fine!" 7 days later.
Just as in your description you can write clickable URLs and create links to members and so on when you write messages.
Messages are deleted separetely by sender and receiver. Exception: An unread message that is deleted by the sender is deleted for both.
"message" is words for the messages in your private message-box. "postings" or "posts" are what you write in forums. "comments" can you write on wiki-pages.
Example: If you mark "Dutch" and "Arabic" under "known languages", you will only find people that know Dutch and/or Arabic. If you have marked the alternative "both" under "Gender", you will only find members that are of both sexes (That can be organizations and other multipeople members).
On the number attributes you may search by entering something like this: "17" = only people who have exactly 17 in this attribute, age for example, "-17" = people who have less than 17, "17-" = 17 or greater, "17-27" something between 17 and 27.
Sometimes the number of unread postings can be lower than the printed value. This is because even deleted postings are counted.
If you click on the Forum-button on top you will be taken to a list of forums. There you can go to (and join) different forums. You can also unjoin forum, read a forum by topic and you can change priority ("prio") for the forum. Forums with low priority numbers are shown before and read before forums with higher priority. Unjoined forums are shown last in the forumlist regardless of priority.
If there is at least 1000 difference in the forum-priority, the go-to-next-posting-button will turn into a go-to-next-postings-forum-button and take you to another forum, even if there are unread postings left in the current forum.
Unlike some other webforums, this site keeps track of what messages you have read. This may seem confusing at start, but you'll soon find it very nice to be able to easily read all new postings. The key to this is the go-to-next-posting-button.
The go-to-next-posting-button takes you to the next posting that you haven't read. But that may not be the next posting in time. It prefers to view a posting that is a comment to the posting you are reading now. If there is no such posting it will take you to the oldest posting in the forum. If that don't exist either, it will take you to the next forum where you have an unread posting.
If there are no unread postings it will turn into a there-are-no-postings-button. The there-are-no-postings-button will turn into a go-to-next-posting-button when there are unread postings again so you can keep pushing that button if you are waiting for a posting to come.
This is all that you need, but sometimes humans make mistakes like not remembering all what they have read. Therefor you can reread the last postings in a forum. Don't be afraid to reread a lot of postings because you can always hit the mark-all-postings-as-read-button when you have found the posting.
If you go even further down the page you have a list of postings starting with the first message that you haven't read. Postings that you have read are marked with an R. Postings with a comment to them are marked with C. This list will give you a hint of what there is to read, but normally the go-to-next-message-button is the way to go.
Then you have a form to write a completely new posting. This is different from commenting a posting.
And finally, you have a add-this-page-to-your-notes-button. Use this if you want to answer a posting later.
When you write postings the text is shown just as in your description so you may write URLs and they become links.
To make it easier to read the forum, there are some tricks you can do. First you can press the button Mark all comments as read. That will mark every comment and their comments and so on, as read, so that you don't have to read them. However, only the postings in this forum will be marked as read. And if the thread moves to another forum and then comes back, the postings in the comeback-thread will not be marked as read (it is probably a new subject this time...). It will follow comments to deleted postings in the tree though.
If you come into a huge thread and don't care if you miss all the thees, you can press the button Mark all subject-alike postings in this thread as read. This will mark all messages in this thread-tree as read, even if they change forum and then come back or have deleted postings in the chain. Note: If another thread is started with the same subject, you will not skip it!
If you come into a huge thread and don't care if you miss some new comments that may be on a changed subject, you can press the button Mark all postings in this thread as read. This will mark all messages in this thread-tree in this forum as read, even if they have different subjects, change forum and then come back or have deleted postings in the chain.
Sometimes the site malfunctions. This is called a bug. It may be a spelling mistake, maybe a button does the wrong thing or something may look very bad. Try to report things like this in the forum "Site bugs". All bug-reports are appreciated, but try to state exactly where you have done what and what happened and what should have happened.
Bad Example: The logout-button don't work!
Better: I press the logout-button, but then i press back and can see the
last page again.
Too good: Logout don't remove the cookies that are necessary to log in.
(Never try to solve the problem! Report exactly what happens instead.)
Good: I press the logout button. Then I press back. Then I press
view messages. Then the messages are shown, even though I am not logged in.
I am using the browser Bogus 6.2 on Superoperatingsystem 7.2.
The site should work perfectly without javascript enabled. It should be usable without stylesheets, but it may be unusable with an erroneous implementation of stylesheets. The site will show PNG-images, but if you can do without the images you should be able to use it without problem.