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Old 03-01-2008, 10:46 AM   #7
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Great story!

A report gets a gold medal for mis-formatting the post!!! I swear, I've never seen a more screwed up formatting in a single post. It took me a while to clean it up.

Some valuable lessons to learn from Yani's post:
  • do not use pictures that are 2000pix + wide or so... It's going to make your post so wide that 99% of people will have to scroll left & right... people that have smaller resolution monitors... Resize your pictures down to no more than 800pix wide...
  • do not write your report in Word or other fancy text editor and then copy and paste directly in to the message board. The board will attempt to take all the fancy formatting, and not being so powerful as Word, you will end up with some unpredictable formatting result. If you really want to use Word to make sure your spelling is cool, before you past it to the board, paste the text first in simple text editor such as Notepad. That will get rid of the fancy formatting.
  • Avoid having Yani take your pictures with a big catch on the water unless you don't mind looking at them all over the Internet when the Greek finds time to put the report together. Yeah he seems to have a better camera now, but after all these years, he still didn't seem to learn that other people's story is just that - other people's story.
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