The Dark Furie

Tips For Those New To The MyOpera Community

Thursday, April 5, 2007 10:48:03 AM

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So, you're new to the site and you haven't got a clue what to do. Read on for some tips on how to make your page easier and more fun for you to use. I'll be updating this post at least once a year, to account for new developments on Opera as well as new help requests, so keep checking back.

  • So, you've seen all these photographs and cool text effects on other people's pages, but don't know how to do that yourself? First learn some basic BB code. Now set up a sticky post at the top of your blog, containing an example of each type of code line. Make the post private so only you can see it. Voila, you have an easy to use reference bank of codes to check up on.
  • Don't give up if no-one visits you at the beginning. It's a slow start when you're new. Try visiting other people's pages and leaving comments. The more active you are on the site, the more likely you are to have people reciprocate.
  • A blog is different things to different people. There's no way to do it wrong so don't worry. Personally I use mine as a kind of scrapbook of things I'm interested in. Others use theirs for social or technological commentary. More people use theirs as a diary or journal. Experiment with your style and build your very own online brand.
  • If you want to display your countdowns, polls, recent visitors, links or friends you'll need to make sure you activate them in the Page Configuration section of My Account.
  • While entering your profile on the About page, you'll see options to enter your messenger and e-mail addresses. If you enter your instant messenger addresses here they'll be available for the whole site to see, so think carefully before you do this. It's just as easy and a lot safer to send your address to someone once you've learned to trust them.
  • Learn how to make friends online properly. It takes a lot more than just adding someone to your Friend's List to become their friend. There are some things you can do to make it more likely that they'll add you back.
  • I'm adding the following link because I've seen lots of new members asking how they can make use of the smileys on this site. Just have a look at the list, pick the smiley you want and you'll see what to type to get it directly underneath.
  • I've been asked to write something explaining tags and their use so read this post if you need some help with that.
  • A recent search that lead here has let me see that some people haven't figured out how to add a sticky post yet so I've just written a quick tutorial on that subject.


Updated 04-01-10

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Comments

Bad WolfCois Thursday, April 5, 2007 11:10:16 AM

See? told you you're usefull bigsmile

Dark FurieFurie Thursday, April 5, 2007 11:20:18 AM

I just had a hard time getting back into this internetty business. It's only now I can confidently say I know my way round this site, and I've been at it a month. Figured a little help for new members would be a nice thing to do.

Spaggyj Thursday, April 5, 2007 11:21:20 AM

Yep, he's the helpful, interesting one, I'm the crazy, annoying one. bigsmile

Bad WolfCois Thursday, April 5, 2007 11:47:29 AM

You said it not me bigsmile

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO Monday, April 16, 2007 12:58:07 PM

Nicely written Furie. Thanks up.

Dark FurieFurie Monday, April 16, 2007 1:30:23 PM

Cheers for the comment Espen. I'm still working on it at the moment.

Scottburning_mice Friday, April 20, 2007 12:02:44 AM

good tips, thanks! im new here btw.

Dark FurieFurie Friday, April 20, 2007 3:32:44 AM

Welcome to the site. Hope this thing helped a little. bigsmile

Andy Yandy-waking-up Monday, April 23, 2007 12:49:37 PM

thanks for your tips !

Dark FurieFurie Monday, April 23, 2007 1:30:34 PM

Not a problem. I'll be updating them soon so keep checking it out.

Daveodwyerda Monday, April 23, 2007 10:36:10 PM

sweet!

offspring Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:23:07 PM

cool

Dark FurieFurie Friday, April 27, 2007 3:24:08 PM

Thanks for your comments guys. smile

Anonymous Monday, May 7, 2007 1:13:53 AM

Anonymous writes: whats up with logging in to yahoo mail????? Wont work

Dark FurieFurie Monday, May 7, 2007 3:17:11 AM

Okay? Think ya might get better results if you try the actual Yahoo site. lol

Dark FurieFurie Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:18:07 AM

Stealth advertising. bigsmile

Dark FurieFurie Monday, May 28, 2007 10:46:46 PM

Updated for those that are watching this post. bigsmile

FRANCIShidaro Wednesday, June 6, 2007 7:41:29 PM

THANKS 4 DE TIPS I CAN ALMOST C THE LIGIT,IT'S BEEN TOUGH

Dark FurieFurie Wednesday, June 6, 2007 7:46:31 PM

Glad I could help. I'm continually updating this so keep your eyes open for new additions.

Dark FurieFurie Saturday, June 23, 2007 1:42:44 PM

Update complete. bigsmile

Leonardavl_wamp Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:18:24 AM

Thanks for the tips.up A little here and a little there, I'm workin on it. smile

Dark FurieFurie Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:55:16 AM

Good good. Hope it helped.

Leonardavl_wamp Sunday, September 23, 2007 7:35:11 PM

Is basic BB part of or same as CSS??? smile

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, September 23, 2007 8:09:07 PM

Nope. BB code is how you add links to your posts, or photos. 
<a href="http://my.opera.com/Furie/blog/show.dml/887391">This is a link</a>
creates This is a link

Thats an example of basic BB code. In case you're wondering, it's a link to this post. bigsmile

Leonardavl_wamp Sunday, September 23, 2007 8:19:48 PM

And just like that the link takes us back to the original comments on the 14th and 15th. How did you stick that in there???

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, September 23, 2007 8:26:07 PM

I just typed it as shown above the active link. Give it a try. Feel free to use this post as a testing ground. It's the only one that's stayed on topic. bigsmile

Leonardavl_wamp Sunday, September 23, 2007 8:36:34 PM

This is a link

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, September 23, 2007 8:40:02 PM

And that leads to my frontpage. up

The number is the name of the post. As I haven't got a post that matches that id number it just took it to my frontpage.

Leonardavl_wamp Sunday, September 23, 2007 8:45:39 PM

And I followed it and it went back to your main page but back to same time 14th and 15th. How do you change to different links and times? Hey!!! with the exception of the one Opera lets you install I just put in my first link. up party

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, September 23, 2007 9:34:47 PM

It's not about the times, it's about the id of the post. There's some more info on Red's page plus some homework. lol

Leonardavl_wamp Sunday, September 23, 2007 10:56:10 PM

bigsmile up What is show.dml and 887391?

Dark FurieFurie Sunday, September 23, 2007 11:15:17 PM

Right that part of the address is best explained in none web terms. Think of it as a letter being sent to someone.

SHOW=send the letter

DML=oi, if you're sending the letter, I'm gonna tell you which one to send.

The numbers are the web address of the letter.

Try replacing the numbers with the word "sticky" without the quotes and see where it takes you.

Leonardavl_wamp Monday, September 24, 2007 12:32:37 AM

Do I still put This is a link at the end?

theoddbod Monday, September 24, 2007 12:38:18 AM

What you put there is a very brief description of the link.
For example, the link next to your comment says avl_wamp but the link is actually to my.opera.com/avl_wamp/info .

Leonardavl_wamp Monday, September 24, 2007 12:47:06 AM

This is a link


Leonardavl_wamp Monday, September 24, 2007 1:00:14 AM

Musta done something wrong. It took me back to page 1 with all the comment boxes showing,made my mouse pointer flip out flickering and seemed to cheese off the server monkeys, wtf?

theoddbod Monday, September 24, 2007 1:03:49 AM

I don't think you did anything wrong, the link was exactly as Mik suggested smile.

Dark FurieFurie Monday, September 24, 2007 8:39:09 AM

Yep, that's the link to my sticky post. While making the post I used the advanced options to change the post url to the word sticky. Doing that enables easy linking to the post because I can always remember that word while the numbers may be forgotten.

You starting to see how it works now?

theoddbod Monday, September 24, 2007 11:56:24 AM

Mik, when i followed that link it took me to some weird blog view showing all your posts with a comment box underneath. Is that what you expected? It looked like some secret option.

Dark FurieFurie Monday, September 24, 2007 12:00:05 PM

It only does that when there's no valid link in there. I'll check it.

Dark FurieFurie Monday, September 24, 2007 12:04:05 PM

Aha!!!

When you're typing a link with a word instead of numbers as the address, you don't need the show.dml part in there.

Just 
<a href="http://my.opera.com/blog/Furie/sticky">Link to sticky post</a>


Making any sense?

Leonardavl_wamp Monday, September 24, 2007 12:21:21 PM

Link to sticky post

Leonardavl_wamp Monday, September 24, 2007 12:22:49 PM

404 not found

theoddbod Monday, September 24, 2007 12:58:45 PM

You need to put blog/ before the word sticky

Leonardavl_wamp Monday, September 24, 2007 2:48:57 PM

Link to sticky post

Dark FurieFurie Monday, September 24, 2007 5:47:27 PM

We have a winner. bigsmile

Leonardavl_wamp Monday, September 24, 2007 9:34:41 PM

bigsmile up

Leonardavl_wamp Thursday, September 27, 2007 1:39:41 AM

If I did this correctly there will be monkey pic.

theoddbod Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:36:37 AM

up

Dark FurieFurie Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:03:30 PM

bigsmile

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