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1) You need to have an account on the website in order to post in the forums, so firstly REGISTER an account.

2) Log in to the account here:

3) Once logged in, click on Forums from the Community Menu

4) Once in the forums, you will see 2 tabs at the top of the screen.  The "All Discussions" tab is a list of all the topics from every category, the newest ones are at the top. The Categories tab sorts the posts by the category they were put in to. Click on Categories!

5) Once inside the Categories Tab you will see how the are organized, Scroll down till you find a category you would like to post in to.

 6) Once you find the category you would like to post in, click on the category name, in this example we choose the Questions category.

7) Once in the category you would like to post to, click on the Post New Topic Link.

8) Once there, it will open up a very easy to use posting editor, very similar to most word processing programs out there. Fill in the subject line of your posting, and you can specify a topic icon.

9) The Boardcode section is the word processing kind of part, where you can highlight text in your postings and make it bold, underlined... ect.. there is also the ability to link to picture off site (you need to know the address of the picture).

10) This is the content part of your postings, so this is where you type in your posting information, you can add smiley faces to you postings as well by clicking on the ones to the left. They will show up in the posting.

11) Attach images, files, subscribe and submit..

You can attach a picture to the posting if you wish it to show up in the posting, or a file if you wish someone to have something.

The subscribe box is check automatically, and this allows you to receive email notifications on new posts to your topics, so lets say I reply to your topic, you will get an email that I did that!

Submit and Preview - These buttons are just that, Submit your posting, or preview it! 

Enjoy the forums!