Hello all, as you may have noticed there is a different text editor for inserting content. Still a couple of things to work out but it should allow us to upload images in both posts and replies to posts as well as have more smileys, etc.
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Pat, who had been taking care of the Latest news section for the past six weeks will be writing a weekly column offering a more personal take on life here in Italy.
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 10:22
Hi,sure this will not please everyone but the feedback we got is that having latest activity on the forefront is the most logical thing because with topics you don't get a proper view of everything.Topics are just a click away (as well as everyth
Fri, 12/04/2009 - 05:49
We have a winner for our seven wonders competition
There were hundred of votes and some very interesting submissions but the Lady won once more
Thu, 12/03/2009 - 05:19
Hello All,
we are running a competition to discover the seven Italian wonders
Wed, 08/26/2009 - 14:00
straight off the Repubblica website - a revolution in fast-food. Pasta that is cooked with the same speed as coffee from a special machine invented by Barilla.
Fri, 06/12/2009 - 13:22
We've added a couple of changes to the site today that will hopefully make it simpler to follow new posts and post content under the appropriate topic:
Thu, 06/04/2009 - 14:10
One of the things I enjoy about the area I live in (South-East Sicily) are the little ape (three-wheeled) or slightly bigger blue trucks that travel around and park in seemingly random positions (although I am sure there is a well defined hierarch
Fri, 05/22/2009 - 13:07
... coming up with a question was hard. How can you come up with anything that Google does immediately cough up!
anyway - here goes.
Thu, 05/21/2009 - 11:48
Hello - one more change for today. We've added an editor so it is simpler to do things like bold text or italics
Wed, 05/20/2009 - 14:48
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my sympathy to family and friends
New posts is "New Activity" that will show you everything new that you haven't read. There currently isn't a "mark read" functionality but I can look into that.Hope this helps!Ronald
Hi - I am trying to see how to help people with navigation. Would you mind telling me what is it that you were trying to find and you could not? Do Topics and Groups make any sense to you? Or was it the activity funtions that are confusing.Or is it simply that there are no forums as such and as a result you can't find things the way you used to?Hoping for some feedback here to try and make it easier for people.Ronald
sicily is warming up finally so I hope to be dipping in soon as well :)
Hi Alan,thanks for the feedback - as I mentioned there are some kinks to iron out but the most important thing to keep in mind is that you can keep it as simple as you like (so for example simply ignore BBCode if you want to - and by the way we will be adding a graphical text editor soon but we need to make sure it is one that works for everyone).This is not about some "techie" (I am guessing you are referring to me) that is trying to justify his salary. I assume you are saying this because you don't know what the setup in ITALY Magazine is. Just to clarify my salary is safe whether there is a community site or not :) I would have considerably more free time without the community but believe it or not I actually enjoy this.It is an attempt to create something different - something that will really work for people that are trying to share information about Italy and will allow us to easily find the information. I realise that the fact that this is not in familiar forum style is off-putting. It seems hard and complicated. However, take a pause for a minute and really look around without having the forums in mind. It is actually much simpler because, for starters, there are actually far less things to do here. You want to say something click on "Create Content" and add a post. Choose your topic and location if they apply - no topic you like? add a topic through the tags yourself. Instant "sub-forum"! You want to comment on something find the post and add your comment - click on save and you are done. You can look at recently created posts, recently updated posts from the menu bar on the top. You can also look at topics and see if there are posts under a topic that interest you.Want to add some pictures - create a gallery. Talk about a restaurant - create a restaurant review. We will be adding more types of the sort soon.Want to share and develop knowledge with friends? - create a group, work on a wiki, Don't really care for all this strange things? Just do posts and ignore all the rest.The maps seem to work for quite a few people as there are plenty of markers there:http://www.italymag.co.uk/community/map/userbut I understand that they might not behave the same on every setup.Important thing is try to keep it calm and positive.
don't forget to check out the user map http://www.italymag.co.uk/community/map/userto find out who is close by to you.A presto,Ronald
great to have you here and looking forward to geotherm knowledge in his new form.alan badger very rightly saw that we do not allow usernames that are company names as well - hence the re-incarnation.
Ciao Mimosa - great to see you here. Don't worry you will soon get used to things. Just jump right in and get wet!
Hi - you should receive an e-mail shortly about it. If you have any questions regarding the old forums please e-mail me. This is not really the place to enter discussions about the forums.And just "una cortesia" (a favour really) could you avoid posting posts with "A question for Ronald" or "Ronald...." etc. Send us an e-mail or a PM. It is just a bit weird seeing once name in a post and it doesn't help new users understand what is going on!
Hi HelenMW, thanks for taking the leap. First thing I would say is just try various things and see what happens - don't worry about the consequences we can sort things afterwards :)Secondly if you want to inset a smiley just click on smileys and click on the one you like - you will see some text pop upin this area which once you hit save will be translated into a nice image for you.Hope this helps!