.I'ts really easy to follow, you just need to know how to read and look at pictures.
Step 1
While you are on the Halomods Forum Index or viewing a post, look up at the top, and close to the right hand corner will be a bunch of options, there is FAQ, Search, Memberlist, Usergroups, Profile, Private Messages, and the Log Out function.
What we want is the Search function, its right next to FAQ. Click it.
Step 2
Good job, you have sucessfully clicked on the search button. But that's not all we have to do!
Ok, you should see a menu with the following functions:
Search for Keywords
What is search for keywords mr.genre? Well, what the Search for Keywords function is, say you are looking for a tutorial on how to Skin, well just click in there and type "Skinning Tutorials", and click search and, vualah, you have skinning tutorials. However, there will be SOME results that have nothing to do with skinning, just search through them, its really easy.
Search for Author
What is the Search for Author function you ask? The Search for Author function allows you to search for posts or topics made by the author of your choice. For example, say you wanted to search for posts by Multi-Genre (zomg thats me
!), just type the username in that trusty little box, then go to the bottom and press search, and badabam, you have posts by me!
Forum
This function really comes in handy while searching, what this allows you to do is search for a post in a specific forum, which really narrows down the search.
Say for example you wanted to search for a tutorial, just type what you want in the Search for Keywords, then go down and go to the Forum function. Click on the little arrow shaped like this "V". Now there will be a dropped down box full of options, those options are different forums. Click on the tutorials one if you are searching for tutorials. And click search, and thar you go, you have specified search results for the tutorials forum
Category
This function is really self explanitory. Say you want to search for something that involves Halo PC, just click on the arrow shaped like this "V" and it will drop down a list of options, click on the Halo PC option. Assuming you filled in the other fields, click search, and you will notice that you only got Halo PC search results.
The following options are not needed to find accurate results, but they come in handy sometimes
Search Previous
What this feature does is you can narrow down how many results you get by how long ago they were posted. So say you only want topics from a week ago, just click on the "V" shaped button and it will drop down a list of the numbers of weeks you can choose to narrow it down by.
Sort By
This function doesnt really do much for your search results, don't worry about it.
Return First
What this does is narrows down the number of search results you want, pretty easy to use
Putting your skills to the test
Ok, now that I have explained all this to you, lets do a test run of the search function
Ok, click on the search button at the top of your screen. Now, when the menu shows on your screen, look for the Search for Keywords function. Type in "Search Function" (with out the " ").
Now go down to the next option, called the Search for Author function, and type in "Multi-Genre" (once again, without the " ")
Now, go to the Forum function and click the arrow shaped like a V to drop down a list of forums, and select Tutorials.
In this example, the Category function really isnt necissary.
So you should have something like this:
Now, go to the bottom and click the Search button. It will load and search for topics with your specifications, and will pop up a list of topics. Search for what topic you were looking for, and there you go!
As you see, it worked!
Congratualtions, you now know how to use the search feature like a 1337 h4x0r champion!
