First post?

[Colin Sparrow]

Well hello everyone, here we are!

[Brian Thompson]

First Reply!

The Griffon has landed!

May the 'all new' GRA Website and Forum be the great success it deserves to be!

Thanks to Ian and Rob Thornton for all their hard work. It's great lads!

[Colin Sparrow]

Thanks to Ian and Rob Thornton for all their hard work. It's great lads! /QUOTE]

I have to endorse that. I'm going to get into the habit of checking the forum every day I can. It will give us the chance to communicate easily and to spot any glitches.

Colin

[Brian Thompson]

Ian and Rob have truly done the club proud I reckon! I will check in daily too, good idea. Further, Ian mentioned to me in an email that (quote);

"Also there are three test users, called:

Mr Basic Member
Mr GRA Member
Mr Committee Member

I'm using these to test how the forum appears to the different usergroups, so if you see them don't be surprised!"

I think that this means I can't upload a suitable Avatar for my profile for the time being-like yours though!!!

[Colin Sparrow]

Yeah, Ian's still piloting at the moment, everything is still experimental - hopefully popping in the odd post will give him something to work with...

Oh by the way, look what else you can do - just click the thumbnail...

Colin

[Ian]

Excellent! Photo hosting will be for GRA members only.

[Colin Sparrow]

Except it won't let me open the thumbnail... C.

[Brian Thompson]

Great pic Colin! You could have found somewhere with a decent view though...!!! (It opened ok for me by the way.) Cool feature!

I've had a trawl through the 'Thompson Galleries' and all mine are too big (average 2.7MB...!!!!) I've obviously been using the wrong setting on the camera all this time and will need to re-size them (doh!)

It's all a learning curve isn't it?!!

Thanks for sorting the Avatar upload Ian-just need a suitable pic now. I assume there is there a size limit on that too?

[Ian]

Colin - not sure why it's not working - is the black box coming up?

Brian - you haven't been using the wrong setting - always capture photos in the highest setting possible, as this will make a big difference if you have prints made.

There is a free image editor available here:

http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

(click the first green "Download now" link - it's safe)

If you can get that installed I'll give you some pointers. Resizing is easy. There is a size limit on image attachments, but only because there is a limit on the size of our web hosting!!

[Brian Thompson]

Thanks for that Link Ian, nice one!

You have my complete trust when you say it's safe, but as I'm getting a few warnings on download and have an alternative I'll try that first.

I've got Sony PMB on my laptop which has a resizing option and I'm having a play with that (for the first time too!) Cheers for the help though Ian, and I'll holla if I get stuck!

The 'black box' appeared for me when I clicked on Colin's pic, if that helps?

[Brian Thompson]

Hope this works!

It's my 1960 24TCS 'Scottish' (with a bit of luck!)

[Brian Thompson]

It worked! But......it won't let me open the thumbnail, likeColin found...!

No 'black box' either. Still at least it uploaded ok!

Progress!

One query Ian, why did this go on to a 'second page' instead of following on from the last post? Is it because I 'replied to myself' so to speak?

[Ian]

It's on the second page as the forum is set to show 10 posts per page - keeps things a little tidier.

Not sure why the images aren't working, but I'm going to look into it today.

[Ian]

Colin's picture seems to work fine, but yours doesn't - perhaps you uploaded it wrong.

I think I'll create a guide to resizing and uploading photos and post it in the members area.

[Brian Thompson]

Thanks Ian, that sounds like a good idea for all us Whitworth spanner throwers!

I'm really enjoying all this! It's fun learning new IT skills, and I'm already getting more out of my computer and using new things.

I realised after my last post what was happening with the pages (doh!) so thanks for confirming it. That's what's good about getting a few posts up and seeing how things work etc.