(Premier Login bob2aa) Forum Owner Posted Oct 18, 2005 10:02 AM
BnB sent this to me in an email and I will include this thread in the FAQ's. I appreciate all these suggestions to improve our forum. Thanks Bnb!!
"Most people are familiar with and are comfortable with the e-mail function of their browser. We put our posts into an e-mail, make changes, use the spell check feature and then copy and paste into the space provided by the forum.
Sometime I start in the forum and want to spell check and/or make other changes. I cut it out and paste it in an "e-mail", make changes, spell check, copy and paste back. Once you've done it a few times, it becomes second nature.
This may be simpler for some people who don't like downloads and/or having to figure out how something new works.
This is what I like really like about this method. When you click on "Respond to this message" it brings up a new page and you can't see the messages you are responding to. With an "e-mail", you can work it as a second window that can lay over the top and still read the posts. I move it to one side so I can still see a part of it if I click on the message page to copy and paste something and it becomes the top page. It is real easy to move back and forth once you've done it. It makes it easier to answer multiple posts because you can look at them. You can even refresh the page to see if any new posts were made while you are answering. That is a real help when you think and type as slow as me and can't remember things. LOL
With a new subject post we do the same thing. We can preview the message and if it is not what we want, pictures in the wrong order or what ever, we highlight and delete the message, make changes in the e-mail and try again.
We wait until we know the post is posted and then delete the "e-mail" and/or make changes if we want to post it in another forum.
What I have described was for AOL. With Internet Explorer, Open mail and move it to the left side and about half way down. Grab the left side border of IE and drag it about a third of the way across. The e-mail will now be behind. You can either click on it or the write mail tab at the bottom to move back and forth. The placement is just a suggestion. You can move the mail any where and click back and forth. This placement makes the forum posts easy to see without the mail covering them because of the layout of the forum page. I am not familiar with Mac but I would think it would work with them as well."
