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183 days ago

Monty 39 post(s)

NEW USER HELPFUL INFO We have been asked numerous times by MDS ‘newbies’ how to do the stuff they see us ‘old timers’ do. Have fun, and ENJOY!! Here is how to post pictures in barks (that’s what we call the messages). Find a site that has some really neat graphics, you can do this by doubleclicking on any of the graphics posted anywhere and it will take you to that site. When you find one you like, look for the ‘myspace code’ copy that, and then come back to MDS. When you click on bark to send a message, you will see in the upper left hand corner a B I U (smiley icon) and html. Click on the html and it will open up another dialog block….now paste your code there, click ‘update’ at the bottom, then it takes you back to the first block, then click submit (to the right, it’s blue) and voila, you should have it appear. If the pic looks too big, then AFTER you hit ‘update’ and BEFORE you hit ‘submit’ you can click on the pic and grab it by the upper right hand corner and resize it. Then click ‘submit’ and it should fit in the bark. For personal pictures, get a free online registration to photobucket. You can load personal pictures from your computer on your own account there (mark it private if you dont want everyone to see it). When they are loaded they will automatically be html coded for you. Remember to resize them smaller (click edit above pic, then resize, what works best for MDS is ‘Website email 320×240), )...now you can copy and past the code from any pictures of your dogs onto the barks too. A site named ‘Blingee’s, will let you upload pictures from your computer and ‘dress them up’, and then generate a code. Another popular one is called Imikimi, and that allows to you trick out your pics as well. You import your pics from your computer (no code needed) dress them up and then the code is generated for you. This also works when you go to MY DOGS, and click ‘edit’ click on html and post the code there. When you post a code here, make sure you hit the update button first, then the submit button at the bottom of the page. That’s also where we post our music players. Go to a site called project playlist, sign up for an account, registration is free, follow the directions, get your own music and copy and paste the code. The code will be the same one generated for MySpace. Make sure you check the box for random play, so the same song does not play everytime your page is accessed, this is also where you choose the color of your player. You can go there multiple times to change the color of your player, or if you player doesn’t load correctly,go there and get the code again. Go to MyDog (edit) then go to the ‘open box" and click on HTML (to the right of the smiley icon, when the second dialog box opens paste in that box, hit ‘update’ then when that closes hit submit at the bottom of the page. Any time you add ‘codes’ you have to click on html and the second dialog box opens. If you see a song you like on anyone’s playlist, just click where it says ‘add’ to the right of the song, copy and paste the link and it will take you to your projectplaylist and add to your own player. Exit out, don’t worry it will save and add it automatically. From the project playlist site you can edit, delete your music with reloading or repasting codes, it automatically will update. There is a site that has a slide viewer, a number of people on the site have used that, it has crashed and destroyed their page. They had to cancel and rejoin and lost all their pals. Some graphics ‘interfere’ with the music player when posted below the player, try to post all your graphics above. For editing purposes, I have found a trick on my own, I use ‘tilde’s" (~~) between each ‘code’. It makes it easier to delete or paste another code. I still go nuts when I see all that code stuff, and without the tilde’s I have had to delete everything just to get one off. Hope this helps. Have fun and enjoy getting into the fun of sprucing up your page. Go to Astrids page and sign up your female dog for the Diva’s club, she hosts virtual dances for the dogs, it’s a real hoot, you can scroll back a number of pages and see some of the previous dances. For the boy dawgs, there is the original club Macho Men’s Club formed by Chance, an Eskie (ChanceandHolly), to protect the Diva’s and the rest of the dogs on the site. We have a lot of fun, dressing up the dogs, taking pics and having a virtual dances for them. The MMC usually acts as bodyguards, and we dance with the gals and eat up all the treats on the virtual buffet.

183 days ago

Lnkaye 63 post(s)

Hey Monty... this post will be most useful to the newbies coming into MDS. Your instructions are super clear and I thank you for posting this helpful advice. You make it sound simple if one follows your steps.

183 days ago

Robert 295 post(s)

Thanks for the detailed info. Making this post 'sticky' - so users can easily find it.

161 days ago

tat2doc 3 post(s)

Great help but how do I get a photo into my profile? I got some in for the "my dogs" part.

155 days ago

Olie 74 post(s)

Same way! If you go into your "edit profile" mode, you can simply paste the code wherever you want to place a picture. "The code" is as described above by Monty- it usually starts with "a ref", or something like that... it's generated by PhotoBucket or Blingee automatically once you have your photo uploaded and saved. Once you have that code, you can paste it anywhere you want- in a bark, a blog, on your profile... etc. Feel free to ask any of us if you need help! Monty is especially good at stuff like this, I can help through the basics...

152 days ago

aluv4dogs 2 post(s)

Great advice...thanks for the information!

143 days ago

samson305 1 post(s)

How do I change the order of the pictures in my photo album?

121 days ago

Ians_pack 20 post(s)

Im so lost I still dont get how to add fun backrounds :(

121 days ago

RileysMommy 97 post(s)

The way we add fun backgrounds is look for pics on the internet; save them to our puter; and call them up as a background pic.

33 days ago

BellaLyn 1 post(s)

That info was very helpful. The only part I'm a little lost on is when you say to come back to My Dogs and click "edit" and "open". I'm not sure where that is. Is it on my profile page? If so, where is it?

Thanks so much for your help!!

Bella

30 days ago

Teddyboy 2 post(s)

Hi, I can't upload any other pics on my Photos how do i do it?

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29 days ago

FurBabies4 1 post(s)

I'm having a problem getting my profile pic. I clicked on the pic I wanted but it still has the "No Photo" icon???

29 days ago

Teddyboy 2 post(s)

hi, furbabies4 you have to reduce your pictures, about resolution 100 and a 4x6 size more or less or it won't work, I had the same problem before.

6 days ago

tinybaby 3 post(s)

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6 days ago

RileysMommy 97 post(s)

Perhaps it's time to remind some oldies, and tell some newbies about a free photo resizing website?

Anyways, it's a very VERY easy website to get around in. It's called www.photosize.com. I use the 75% resizer, and after that sometimes I use the 25% resizer. But I always use the 75% one first. And don't forget to save the picture to your computer after resizing.

MDS will only let you upload pictures that are 1 meg in size or less.

6 days ago

jaylow 2 post(s)

hi have two new pic thank you

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183 days ago Monty 39 post(s)	NEW USER HELPFUL INFO We have been asked numerous times by MDS ‘newbies’ how to do the stuff they see us ‘old timers’ do. Have fun, and ENJOY!! Here is how to post pictures in barks (that’s what we call the messages). Find a site that has some really neat graphics, you can do this by doubleclicking on any of the graphics posted anywhere and it will take you to that site. When you find one you like, look for the ‘myspace code’ copy that, and then come back to MDS. When you click on bark to send a message, you will see in the upper left hand corner a B I U (smiley icon) and html. Click on the html and it will open up another dialog block….now paste your code there, click ‘update’ at the bottom, then it takes you back to the first block, then click submit (to the right, it’s blue) and voila, you should have it appear. If the pic looks too big, then AFTER you hit ‘update’ and BEFORE you hit ‘submit’ you can click on the pic and grab it by the upper right hand corner and resize it. Then click ‘submit’ and it should fit in the bark. For personal pictures, get a free online registration to photobucket. You can load personal pictures from your computer on your own account there (mark it private if you dont want everyone to see it). When they are loaded they will automatically be html coded for you. Remember to resize them smaller (click edit above pic, then resize, what works best for MDS is ‘Website email 320×240), )...now you can copy and past the code from any pictures of your dogs onto the barks too. A site named ‘Blingee’s, will let you upload pictures from your computer and ‘dress them up’, and then generate a code. Another popular one is called Imikimi, and that allows to you trick out your pics as well. You import your pics from your computer (no code needed) dress them up and then the code is generated for you. This also works when you go to MY DOGS, and click ‘edit’ click on html and post the code there. When you post a code here, make sure you hit the update button first, then the submit button at the bottom of the page. That’s also where we post our music players. Go to a site called project playlist, sign up for an account, registration is free, follow the directions, get your own music and copy and paste the code. The code will be the same one generated for MySpace. Make sure you check the box for random play, so the same song does not play everytime your page is accessed, this is also where you choose the color of your player. You can go there multiple times to change the color of your player, or if you player doesn’t load correctly,go there and get the code again. Go to MyDog (edit) then go to the ‘open box" and click on HTML (to the right of the smiley icon, when the second dialog box opens paste in that box, hit ‘update’ then when that closes hit submit at the bottom of the page. Any time you add ‘codes’ you have to click on html and the second dialog box opens. If you see a song you like on anyone’s playlist, just click where it says ‘add’ to the right of the song, copy and paste the link and it will take you to your projectplaylist and add to your own player. Exit out, don’t worry it will save and add it automatically. From the project playlist site you can edit, delete your music with reloading or repasting codes, it automatically will update. There is a site that has a slide viewer, a number of people on the site have used that, it has crashed and destroyed their page. They had to cancel and rejoin and lost all their pals. Some graphics ‘interfere’ with the music player when posted below the player, try to post all your graphics above. For editing purposes, I have found a trick on my own, I use ‘tilde’s" (~~) between each ‘code’. It makes it easier to delete or paste another code. I still go nuts when I see all that code stuff, and without the tilde’s I have had to delete everything just to get one off. Hope this helps. Have fun and enjoy getting into the fun of sprucing up your page. Go to Astrids page and sign up your female dog for the Diva’s club, she hosts virtual dances for the dogs, it’s a real hoot, you can scroll back a number of pages and see some of the previous dances. For the boy dawgs, there is the original club Macho Men’s Club formed by Chance, an Eskie (ChanceandHolly), to protect the Diva’s and the rest of the dogs on the site. We have a lot of fun, dressing up the dogs, taking pics and having a virtual dances for them. The MMC usually acts as bodyguards, and we dance with the gals and eat up all the treats on the virtual buffet.

183 days ago Lnkaye 63 post(s)	Hey Monty... this post will be most useful to the newbies coming into MDS. Your instructions are super clear and I thank you for posting this helpful advice. You make it sound simple if one follows your steps.


183 days ago Robert 295 post(s)	Thanks for the detailed info. Making this post 'sticky' - so users can easily find it.

161 days ago tat2doc 3 post(s)	Great help but how do I get a photo into my profile? I got some in for the "my dogs" part.

155 days ago Olie 74 post(s)	Same way! If you go into your "edit profile" mode, you can simply paste the code wherever you want to place a picture. "The code" is as described above by Monty- it usually starts with "a ref", or something like that... it's generated by PhotoBucket or Blingee automatically once you have your photo uploaded and saved. Once you have that code, you can paste it anywhere you want- in a bark, a blog, on your profile... etc. Feel free to ask any of us if you need help! Monty is especially good at stuff like this, I can help through the basics...


152 days ago aluv4dogs 2 post(s)	Great advice...thanks for the information!

143 days ago samson305 1 post(s)	How do I change the order of the pictures in my photo album?

121 days ago Ians_pack 20 post(s)	Im so lost I still dont get how to add fun backrounds :(

121 days ago RileysMommy 97 post(s)	The way we add fun backgrounds is look for pics on the internet; save them to our puter; and call them up as a background pic.

33 days ago BellaLyn 1 post(s)	That info was very helpful. The only part I'm a little lost on is when you say to come back to My Dogs and click "edit" and "open". I'm not sure where that is. Is it on my profile page? If so, where is it? Thanks so much for your help!! Bella

30 days ago Teddyboy 2 post(s)	Hi, I can't upload any other pics on my Photos how do i do it? .

29 days ago FurBabies4 1 post(s)	I'm having a problem getting my profile pic. I clicked on the pic I wanted but it still has the "No Photo" icon???

29 days ago Teddyboy 2 post(s)	hi, furbabies4 you have to reduce your pictures, about resolution 100 and a 4x6 size more or less or it won't work, I had the same problem before.

6 days ago tinybaby 3 post(s)	hi

6 days ago tinybaby 3 post(s)	hi

6 days ago tinybaby 3 post(s)	hi

6 days ago RileysMommy 97 post(s)	Perhaps it's time to remind some oldies, and tell some newbies about a free photo resizing website? Anyways, it's a very VERY easy website to get around in. It's called www.photosize.com. I use the 75% resizer, and after that sometimes I use the 25% resizer. But I always use the 75% one first. And don't forget to save the picture to your computer after resizing. MDS will only let you upload pictures that are 1 meg in size or less.

6 days ago jaylow 2 post(s)	hi have two new pic thank you