Am I thick?

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Sat, 2003-11-15 14:21

Am I thick?

Am I thick, or is ABCTales no longer Mac-friendly?

I can't upload anything. When I ask to submit a new tale, this is the screen I get (as you can see, there's no box to post the actual story itself):

Create a New ABC Tale:

Title:
What would you like to title your piece? (Remember the first letter of the title needs to fit into your ABC Sets).

Description:
You can use this field to provide a very brief description of your story, which will let people know something of what it's about before they decide to read the entire piece.

Tale Type:
Please choose the type which best applies to your tale.

Genres:
Please choose the most suitable Genre for your work. This will help people to narrow their searches, and find your story more easily.

Age Rating:
We trust you to protect minors from material unsuitable for them. For most stories, a rating of 'U' is fine, but stories containing drugs, sexual content or strong language should be given a rating of '15' or '18'. Please use your discretion!

Create This ABC Tale!

HEEELLLLPPPP!!!!

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Mon, 2003-11-17 13:06

Ros Lloyd

Thanks for your replies, guys. Glad to see I'm not completely stoopid, then! Lol! Stormy, I glazed over halfway through your instructions...! I think I'll wait 'til things are sorted before I post. :-)

Sat, 2003-11-15 14:40

skeeter

No Ros, I get the same thing. (and I've got microsoft worse luck. Wanna Mac!! wanna Mac!!). BUT, if you click on Create an ABC tale, if you're lucky, you'll getan edit box come up to paste your work into. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. It's a mood thing. But, there doesn't seem to be a way to allocate new work to an existing set, or indeed to edit an existing tale.

Sat, 2003-11-15 18:21

Tony Cook

Thanks for these folks - tav is working on this problem right now and your comments have been passed on to him.

Sun, 2003-11-16 00:32

stormy

well Ros, Skeeter, after playing around for a couple of hours last week, I eventually discovered that once you filled out the headings you show above and click on 'create tale' you have to go to 'manage my tales' or something like that. At the bottom of the screen you discover a list of all your work. The title you have just created should be there. If you click 'edit' on this title it will say you are not authorised to edit this item. Click 'log in' again at the top of the screen and you find yourself a page for uploading your story. To get it into a set I think you then have to press edit (and probably press log in again) and you get a frame with all your stuff and options to put them into a set. I think. And that's as far as I got before losing the will to live. Meanwhile, I'm wondering why the last hundred (and the work within) font looks like the site is full of work copied from nursery school walls. It's dire. "probably the most exciting story site in the world" Yes, "Janet and John Go Larger"

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