Site Questions Answered

Q: Who maintains this site?

A: You do! No really! If you're a registered user feel free to create new content or comment on any of the other stuff you see here. Authors (that's you) are encourage to integrate useful comments into their posts regularly, so keep an eye on your content.

There's a moderation queue of course to deter spam and abuse but if you have something to add please do. Normally moderated content appears very quickly (almost instantly to a day or two).

Q: How do I post pictures here?

A: Easy... just click the 'image' link under the 'create content' menu (on the left there). There's a lot of galleries, please be sure to place it somewhere sensible. It'll go in the moderation queue of course as mentioned above.

Take note of the submission guidelines on the image page - 1600px pics max are a recommendation. They get resized to 800px for the gallery but members can view the original (good for putting top shots on your wallpaper or printing).

If you've got a few shots to upload we recommend using Picasa. Scan through your pictures and 'hold' any you like in Picasa's tray. Then export them to a temporary folder at a good size to upload (800px even is fine) and upload that copy - nice and fast and easy.

Q: Erm... OK, what about other stuff?

A: Anyone can publish easy content types (forum topics, ride meetings, blog entries, etc), and for many, this is good enough. If you want to be even more active though (ride database entries, hot lap challenges, etc.) firstly signal your intent to do this. This is done by joining the 'content authors' group - do that and ramble on to your heart's content

Q: I'm hearing you (sort of) but still don't get it. Help!

A: Ooops, sorry, not the most intuitive thing, eh? On the left you should see a little box with your username atop and a 'create content' link. This may or may not be expanded, but when it is there should be options to add various stuff (forum topic, image (pictures), etc.) - is this helping?

Q: What's the difference between adding a 'story' and 'ride story' then?

A: Well, a 'ride story' is a little report that ends up in the rides database - there's a little structure to these to try and keep things consistent. A plain old 'story' is used for general posts (not forum stuff) that ends up categorised around the site in various places (like on the front page, news section, articles, etc.).

Q: I've published my pictures and some other content. But how do I include pictures in that other content?

A: There's the hard way (using HTML) like so:

<a href="/node/2321"><img src="/system/files/images/400-1655_img.inline.jpg" alt="Flying Steve" title="Flying Steve" class="float_l" height="342" width="480"></a>

Or there's the easy way, like so:

[image:2321 size=inline class=float_l]

Both these have the same effect - in most cases you wouldn't even want to include the class or size parts in the image thing even, but for the record - they use the intermediate size image (default is thumb) and make it float to the left of the following text (default is inline).

Q: So, all this stuff on the left is cool and all but I'm not interested, can I remove it?

A: Sure thing, go to your profile, click 'Edit' and uncheck the stuff you don't like under 'Block configuration'.

Q: There sure are some 'interesting' sounding people here, how do I contact them?

A: Well, first off you'll have to register because this hopefully means you are a real person and not some sort of spambot. Then you will be able to view profiles, from where you can either PM someone or if a they have chosen to make an email address public, e-mail away.

Q: I see this 'XML' link thing on the front page, but no-where else, how come?

A: Ah - you can actually get just about any page/section you like as a feed, check out the feeds page.

Q: Can I advertise my services here (commercial or otherwise)?

A: No. However please contact the moderators as if we decide it is worthy then we are more than happy to support local events and the Australian MTB community. Blatantly commercial posts that have not been sanctioned by site moderators are likely to deleted without warning.