Message Board Help

Here are some tips to help you with posting notes on the message board:

1. Notes are listed in the order they are posted, so look to the bottom of the screen, you may need to 'page' forward to view all the notes.
   
   
2. You may post new notes by clicking on 'Post a Note', or reply to a note. You reply to a note by reading it, and filling in the text boxes underneath the note, then hitting the 'Reply' button. Replies are 'threaded' underneath the original note.
   
   
3. You may specify the type of note using the drop-down menu to choose 'Problem', 'New Information', 'Question', etc. This will change the picture that goes beside your note. It can also be used to search notes. i.e. you may use the search tool to look for all 'New Information'.
   
   
4. When posting or replying to a note, HTML tags will be parsed. Therefore, any valid HTML you put in your title, or in the body of your note, will be formatted as you specify. The buttons underneath the body textbox give you some quick HTML to use.
   
   
5. Basically, HTML is a series of tags that go before and after some text to format it. For instance, <b>This is bold</b> Will appear as This is bold. The / specifies an end tag. Similarly, <i>This is in italics</i> will appear as This is in italics. Make sure you always have an end tag except if using <p> for paragraph.
   
   
6. Images and links are slightly more complicated as they need a location of the link, or image. In the link tag, the location is in single quotes after href = . For example, <a href='http://www.utoronto.ca'>Go to University of Toronto</a> Will appear as Go to University of Toronto
   Remember to put the http:// in your location. The link button underneath the text box will put in the above code for you, just replace the http://URLhere with the location you wish to link to, and 'Linked text here' with the text you want to have highlighted as a link.
   
   
7. Images are similar in that they need a location to the image. An image location is the same as above, but it must end in a.gif or .jpg to specify the image, and the location goes after src= instead of href=. For instance, <img src='http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/images/menutopmotif.jpg' border='0'> will show the image below:
   
   Image tags also do not need an end tag.
   
   
8. If you would like to get very fancy, you can make an image a link using the two above tips. To link the above image to U of T, you would use the following code (Instead of linking text, you are here putting the link around the image):
   <a href='http://www.utoronto.ca'><img src='http://http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/images/menutopmotif.jpg' border='0' ></a>
   This will result in:
   
   
   
9. Another handy tip is to use View>Source in Microsoft Explorer, or View>Page Source in Netscape to view the HTML for any page. You can find the location of images this way, but remember, usually the image link in the source will be relative to the location in the address bar. So if you see <img src='images/test.gif'> in the source and you are at www.utoronto.ca, to show that image you will need to put http://www.utoronto.ca/images/test.gif as the location. Remember to use single quotes for this message board.
   
   
10. Have Fun!