FAQ/Tutorial

[westlifebomb]

FAQ

FAQ means Frequently Asked Question.
Here you can find some tutorials that hopefully help you out

How can I use an avatar/personal image?
Step 1. First you click on PROFILE ().
Step 2. Scroll down untill you see PERSONALIZED PICTURE:
Underneath that you see I HAVE MY OWN PIC, click on the box next to that and fill in the URL of your own picture.
You can only use JPEG or GIF pictures, the maximum picture size is 100x100.

How can I edit my signature?
Step 1. First you click on PROFILE ().
Step 2. Scroll down untill you see SIGNATURE, fill in the box with text.
If you'd like to use a blend in your signature, but [/img] around the URL of your blend.
Please go to the RULES section to see the maximum sizes of your blend and the rules about this.
^{Rule No. 4}

How do I become affiliates?
Go to About Westlifebomb and click on the topic: Affiliates.
When your site is approved, you will see your affiliate in the affiliate bar, down the MAIN page.
Do NOT forget to link me as well! I even put up direct-links, so it's even easier then at anytime.

When do I get warned?
You will get a warning when you don't stick to the rules.
I warn people on the board about the way that they use their language or the size of their blends.
But when I PM/IM you and in the PM/IM it sais that I'm warning you,
it means that you have done something that I really really didn't like.
Example: spamming or linking to illegal websites. After 3 warnings, you'll be deleted, or maybe even banned.
^{Depending on how far you went with ignoring the rules}
There's no use NOT reading the rules, they might look like a lot of rules.
But there's just a lot of explanation

_{More FAQ's will be added}

[crazyNickyfan]

Thxzz..didn't knew how to do a own avvie
But now it says my name is wrong or something..

[westlifebomb]

I've heard that more people had problems with that...
I don't know what's going on, but I think it has to do with the upgrading.
You can read about that in the Westlife-section.

[crazyNickyfan]

Yeah already read it, hope it will work after the upgrading

[westlifebomb]

Yeah, me too!

[westlifebomb]

I'm not getting my activation key in my email!
If you use AOL, they tend to block lots of mail that should be allowed through. If you can not get your key with AOL, we suggest you use an alternate email account with a different provider (such as hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc).

My activation key doesn't work!
If you submitted a request for an activation key more than once, then a new key was generated which voided your old one. You will have to wait for your new key to arrive. Submitting extra requests for keys only slows down the process.

[westlifebomb]

If you want to use an AVATAR of BLEND you must upload it to an online photoalbum first.
If you want to post an image you must also opload it to an online photoalbum. Here are some links to websites where you can registrate for a photoalbum.

imageshack.us
photobucket.com
imageuploading.com
uploadit.org

[westlifebomb]

Direct Linking avatars, blends and pictures!

Direct linking means that you post a picture on this board, (in your sig, avvie or post) with the URL that is from the website you took it of.
This will cost the website bandwith. A website only has limited bandwith, everytime you come online, post or click on a URL of a picture that is on that website, you will take some of that website's bandwith.

For example: if you go to a download website such as thecommitted.net and you download a file. That will cost the owner bandwith. When there are big files and a lot of people download it, it costs her a lot of bandwith. This could mean that she has to take off all the downloads for a while untill the month is over and she gets new bandwith.

I've checked all the profiles and mainly I've seen a lot of people direct-linking for Shane Filan NL.
I often communicate with the webmistress (nearly every day) and told her about these things (didn't mention names) and I'm quoting from her:
"When you direct link something, it will cost me bandwith, everytime you come online or post something. But when I upload a new file, your direct linked item will change automaticly into an smt else.
So another reason why you shouldn't direct link.

Please upload the pictures to your own picture host!
^{Links are above this message.}


Too Many Connections
The too many connections error is designed to stop access to a server when the load is too high, to protect the server and the integrity of the data held within.

This "load" is based on a server wide state, not just that of this forum, so if you get the message, but you are the only one on line on this forum, it means the rest of the server is busy, not just ours.

Server loads are monitored, and if a server ever becomes too overloaded, the problem will be rectified

[Tiej]

what should I do when SHANE ROCKS

[westlifebomb]

Faint and let a doctor come over
Well, beter one... what should you do when Shane DOESN'T ROCK?

[Amanda]

faint and let the doctor (preferably Dr. Filan) come over!

[Tiej]

both great ideas ;D