What would you say to newer members of the CD community?

[Cynette]

These are all great ideas, and definately should go in the sticky "Read this First" category.

I would also like to see some how-to's for folks who are new to the whole forum concept. When you decide to reply to a post what are all those buttons? What do the response fomatting icons really do? What is a PHP tag? The big thing I have searched for is the how-to on adding quotes to your responses. I can make the shaded box, but where does the "originally quoted by" come from?

And it took me forever to realize that if you click on a photo in a post that was "automatically generated..." it takes you to CDMedia and the caption of the photo is there. Is this written somewhere? And yes, I've looked!

And I'd love one on signatures. The rules are scattered everywhere. Not too big, user bars ... but I can't find anything on the basics.

Cynette