Explaining what being "pinged" means:
When you are on the forum page at the top right, it says pings or it says "new posts to you" in red. This will happen anytime someone replys to your post or pings you to a post. When you click on it, it will give you your pings. It will look like this:
Anna Nicole Smith, The Investigation #3
Posted by Dr. Scarpetta to stlnative; Arizona Carolyn; TexKat; bonfire; Rte66; mom4kittys; PennsylvaniaMom; sodpoodle; ...
On General/Chat 04/08/2007 1:04:53 PM CDT · 435 of 437
If you see the last thing 435 of 437 that is the post you have been pinged to. You can click on these numbers and it will take you directly to that specific post.
Private messaging: (otherwise known as "freepmail" There is also the word mail at the top right. When you have mail it will show in red "you have new mail" or something like that. All you have to do is click it, and it goes to your mail center.
If you click More at the top right, you will be taken to your personal menu which is self explanatory for the most part. There is a way to see bookmark threads on your profile page (called links) There is a clckable add bookmark below every threads first post.
Ways to browse Free Republic:
To the right you will see browse by forum:
You can browse the forum called news/activism by clicking on the news/activism topic name (you can click on ANY of the topic names and you can browse that topic only) Clicking on new/activism brings you here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse
Or you browse them all at once by clicking on the all of the above topic name.
Clicking on all of the above brings you here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/browse
You have to be in a single topic and not on the all of the above to be able to post a new thread and be sure you are in the topic you want it posted to.
One more way to browse:
At the top right you will see Threads Messages. Click on threads to browse by thread or click on messages to browse by posts. I prefer to browse by thread.
When you post a reply and mention another poster in the post, it is proper net etiquette to include them in the reply. You can put as many names as you want separated by the ;
Below each post you will see:
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
The To 1 means that the poster was posting a response to the first post. It is clickable if you want to see the refernced post and see what the poster is responding to.
How to post a picture:
When you find a picture on the web that you want, right click on it and go to properties. A box will bop up and you will see the address (URL) Copy and paste the address and then put it in the format/formula provided in the HTML Sandbox and place it where the ? is. Make sense?
You replace the ? with the url
How to post a picture and other HTML tricks:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38d821710885.htm
Great info Mom4kitty!
HEY MOM4! Thanks for the mini-tutorial !! and the ping to the new thread !!
i have one small question - concerning pictures - i save a ton onto my own computer - how do i paste them from ‘my pictures’ to this forum? do i have to relocate them on the web?
LOL... you are so helpful and such a wonderful thread host and ping list keeper!
Keep up the awesome work!