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We suggest starting with a new topic to introduce yourself. To start a new topic, first you need to go to the appropriate board. In this case, that would be the “Welcome area for new members.” Click “New topic.” You need to fill in the subject line, anything such as “Hey, this is Hugo” is fine - any subject you choose is ok. In the message body you can say whatever you like about yourself. Once you have written everything that you would like to say, you can click ‘post’ to submit your thread, or you can click ‘ preview’ to see what your submitted thread will look like, and then click ‘post’ once you are satisfied.

After you have introduced yourself, maybe you can jump to your profile to modify your information. Near the top of the forum there is a navigation menu. … click ‘profile.’ What you see here, is also what other members will see when they view your profile. To edit your profile information go to “forum profile information.” Here you can change your profile picture. You can select from our limited list of pictures, or you can add your own. To add your own picture, you have two options. If you already have a picture online and you know the exact url, you can input this where you see “I have my own pic” If you wish to upload a picture from your computer, select “I will upload my own picture.” click browse, find the desired picture and finally click open. You can also add some personal text if you like. This is simply a short message that will appear under your profile picture. If you like, you can share your birthday, location, gender, and other information. You can also add a signature which will appear below all of your posts. If you have a website, for example a myspce.com profile or a blog you can also share this in your profile. You need to choose a title (EG: Resident Alien – a blog about my life in China) and then specify the complete url (http://www.daxueyingyu.com/hugo) Once you have made all the desired changes to your profile click ‘change profile’ and your information should be updated.

At this point you can check to see if any other members have replied to your introductory thread. Near the top of the forum, where your profile picture should now be visible, click “show new replies to your posts.” What this does is that it shows any unread posts that were made after any of your posts, regardless of whether your post was the first or last in any thread. This is a good way to keep track of who has responded to your questions, comments etc. If there are any new replies, they will be shown by each thread’s subject. If you click on the thread’s name you will be taken to the fist post in the thread. If you click on ‘new,’ you will be taken to the first unread post of the particular thread. Therefore even if 10 more posts were made since you last viewed the thread, you would be taken to the first and not to the last of those 10 posts.

So you already know how to start a new thread, but do you know how to reply to a post? To reply to something you can use the ‘Quick Reply’ window if you do not need to attach a picture. Therefore you can simply type your message in the quick reply area and then click post once you have written what you would like to say. If there is a particular post you would like to reply to, you can use the ‘quote’ function . Find the post you would like to reply to, and then click ‘quote’ which can be found on the right side. This will automatically populate the quick reply area. If you want to quote more than one post, be sure to do this before you type anything in the quick reply area otherwise whatever you previously typed will be lost. Another alternative is that you can use the member’s username. EG: (@Sophie – I disagree with your last post, because…)

Advanced posting options.
You can change the color of the text. To do this, highlight the text you would like to change, then select your desired color from the drop down box that says ‘Change color’
There are other options such as making text bold, italicized, underlined etc. As above, highlight the text you wish to change, and then click the function you wish to perform.

If you would like to include a video from youtube, you can use the youtube icon , and between the tags you place the video code. For more about this, please see this thread: Youtube Video Embedding.

To include a hyperlink you can just type the complete url, or you can use the [url] tags. You need to place the url after the opening tag, and then the anchor text for the link between the tags. For example, if you want to link to a blog you would do something like this:
[url=http://daxueyingyu.com/hugo/index.php?/archives/2-1st-Day-of-Class.html]First Day of Class[/url] This would look like this when it is posted on the forum: First Day of Class. Please note that you need to place an equals sign (=) before the complete link in the opening url tag.

If you would like to attach a picture to a post, there are two ways to do this. If there is a picture online that you would like to include in the body of your post, you can use the [img] tags. Just click on ‘img’ and then place the exact url of where the picture is located between the tags You should end up with something like this: [img]http://daxueyingyu.com/sitewidepics/ugly.jpg[/img] which when posted to the forum will look like this:

You can also attach a picture after your post. To do this you first need to click 'reply' then below the area where you type your message you should see something that says 'additional options' You then need to search/browse your computer for the location of the picture. Finally just click post and the picture should be attached below your post. Please note that with this method you cannot use the quick reply feature.