* PLEASE READ: Trip Report Tips and Guidelines (including photos) About This Page:

[Jennifer Marx]

So you want to share your adventure with the world, huh? GREAT! We'd love to read your trip report and glean tips and tricks from it. Here are some helpful tips and guidelines to keep in mind while writing/posting your trip report at PassPorter.com

1. Write your trip report in Microsoft Word, WordPad, SimpleText, or any other text editor. Do not compose it in the message box of this message board. Why? Because if you lose your connection suddenly, or there's a posting problem, you'll lose all your hard work! Write it, save it, then post it.

2. Please keep your trip report to just one topic -- you can post additional days of your trip as replies to the topic. If you make a new topic for each day, the sequence of days will get scattered throughout the board and it will be hard for people to follow your trip report. Please note that if you create more than one topic for a single trip report, you may be contacted by the Message Board Guide and asked to repost your report into a single topic.

3. Give your trip report a good subject -- include the dates, where you stayed, and (optionally) a distinctive title. Here are some examples:

- October 18-27, 1999 (BoardWalk/Disney Cruise/Wilderness Lodge)
- Jan. 20-23, 2001 (Disney Institute) - Jennifer's Dad & Chad Trip Report
- Our Inaugural W. Caribbean Cruise: 5/10-5/21

4. Include an introduction at the start of your trip report with the following information:

- Our Party (who went, ages, experience)
- Our Journey (departure date, return date, method of travel)
- Our Cruise (if you went on a cruise, indicate the number of nights and if it was a special cruise)
- Our Lodging/Stateroom (where you stayed, special requests)
- Our Special Plans (special things you planned to do or that happened during your trip -- the highlights)

5. Post new days of your trip report as replies to your introduction post. Type the date and day at the top of the reply to make it easy for folks to follow your report. Your readers will want to know what day you did things on whenever possible.

6. Highlight your hints and tips throughout your report. You can also include a Trip Highlight section at the end of your report with your best experiences and tips for other vacationers.

7. If you post your trip report over a span of time rather than all at once, let folks know your trip report is completed. Just edit the original post (click the Edit button at the top of the post) and append the Subject line with "Complete" or "Finished."

We hope this has been helpful, and we look forward to your trip report!

[tikibird]

Thanks Jennifer,

These are great tips to help us all enjoy the wonderful trip reports even more! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Shell_of_the_South]

Thanks for posting these - it does make it much easier to read when all of the trip report is in one topic.

[CrZy4DiSNeY]

ThanKs for posting that Jennifer!! Great tips.

[Bert & Sully]

Just saw this. Thanks for the guidelines.

[*Pixie*Dust*]

Thanks. The first time I posted a trip report, I accidently put it on someone else's thread [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] ! I am older and wiser now. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

[Shell_of_the_South]

Bumping up these guidelines - they are so helpful to trip report authors and readers!

[Bert & Sully]

Originally posted by Happy&Grumpy:
Thanks. The first time I posted a trip report, I accidently put it on someone else's thread [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] ! I am older and wiser now. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]

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[tikibird]

Hi everyone!

I have made this a sticky topic so that it will stay at the top of the forum for everyone to read. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Sandy

[kswdwnut]

Thanks for posting these guidelines.

I REALLY appreciate when people indicate in their title that the report is complete. I don't have the fastest connection in the west and it is a VERY slow process to check reports in progress to see if anything new has been added.

Karen

[Eeyore Tattoo]

I was wondering if I could post a Photo Show Trip report?
My trip in pictures??
Haley

[mrskpete]

Great Ideas!!!! Upon your sugestion I have already started to use a journal template in Word to start documenting this trip. It will be nice to print off when all is said and done for our family to keep and hopefully remember fondly. Should be a good addition to our passporter. Is there a way to take a word document and make it so everyone else can see the entire thing or just cut and paste parts?

[whoSEZ]

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Is there a way to take a word document and make it so everyone else can see the entire thing or just cut and paste parts?

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You'll need to cut and paste -- looking forward to reading your report!

[Colexis Mom]

Just a friendly reminder to all our Trip Report posters that there is an image size guideline on Passporter click here for guideline .

Images in the body of a post shouldn't exceed 400 x 400 pixels EACH. For example, you can include as many photos from your vacation in your trip report posting so long as each does not exceed 400 x 400 pixels.

If you need help resizing pictures, please post your need/question in the Garage Forum . There is also a sticky thread in this forum to help guide you along.

Thanks for everyones understanding [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thanx.gif[/img]