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[Bittersilk]

I'm new here... and this site is all very confusing for me   
it took me 30 min just to find out where I could post this (and not entirely sure whether I'm doing it the right place, so pls forgive me if I'm not. can you post any fan art? and where/how... tried serching for it, and the help site just sends me to another site :-(

[jaRf]

Hello and welcome Bittersilk,

yes, that help page is a generic help page from the software that is used to display the forums and the gallery. Thus it is a bit generic and not that useful for handling this very site.

Since the reconstruction (?) the site consists of the forum part (with the subforums guides, art, writers, holts, chit-chat and so on) and it's the starting page that you can also reach by the little tab "Home" on top (that shoud direct you to http://www.elfquestfanart.com/index.php )

The other big part is the gallery with all the artwork (tab "Gallery", link http://www.elfquestfanart.com/index.php?action=media). Besides that is the somewhat useless "Help" followed by "Search" (which kind of works as intended) and then your "Profile" settings, private message center, a memberlist, the extra-gallery-link for the fanart calendars from 2002 to 2017 and finally logout (self-explanatory).

Please note that the server has a little hiccup when it comes to email notifications of thread answers and PMs for a lot of members since ~October 2016. :/

[jaRf]

In the Gallery you should have a link on the right side, above the art icons with the label "My Albums"
http://www.elfquestfanart.com/index.php?action=media;area=mya

Here you can create an album e.g. "canon_EQ_elves" or "my_fancy_art" (I used underscores in the example because I don't know how well spaces are tolerated)
Once you have a directory (aka "folder" aka "album") you can enter it by clicking its name and there you should find a button "add an item to this album". That should allow you to submit a picture. Please note that the software isn't overly clever and a bit old so it is more or less limited to images (unless you do trickery). But JPEG and PNG images should work up to resolutions of >2000 x 2000 pixels (I tested it). Don't know about the byte size limit but if you use a clever (aka optically lossless) PNG or JPEG compression and stay within reasonable levels it should be fine.


Hope that helps!

PS: Have fun posting (especially Rayek) and feel free to ask if you have questions!

[jaRf]

Ah, well, maybe on the subforums you see on the main page:

Guides & Guidelines:
As it says, but not really art related, more forum related.

Art and Elfquest:
Calendar topic discussion, voting, art related questions and talk.

Writers' Gallery:
If you have lyrics or stories (fanfic) post here. You CAN also upload it to the gallery but either you have to put it into a picture or use some nasty trickery (quick and dirty "hack") as I did. Maybe one day it will improve, but basically our Maggy is single-handedly keeping this site up in her spare time.

Holts:
Holt related discussion, announce holts or news regarding holts. (Holts are basically places where EQ fans meet to build their own virtual tribe and do either roleplay and/or write stories about their tribe and characters.

Chit-Chat:
You posted here.
Generic chat about everything else.

The Other Art Gallery:
As it says discussion about non-ElfQuest art or links to it.

Trading Post:
If you have something to sell/trade. Not necessarily Elfquest related, as you see someone gave his/her digital drawing tablet away (well, so others could create Elfquest digital art with it )

Sanctuary / Rants, Bacon, and Boobies:
Rants, mishaps, joy.


Well, currently it's relatively quiet here. Oh, well.

[Afke]

Here you can create an album e.g. "canon_EQ_elves" or "my_fancy_art" (I used underscores in the example because I don't know how well spaces are tolerated)

We can use spaces in folder names, I have.

And welcome to the site. Feel free to ask questions if you have more. We all like to help.
There may also be some useful topics for you here, under Guides & Guidelines.

[Bittersilk]

thank you! :-)