HTML hints for Dummies
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Hey Dan
Thanks for the New Editing Feature
Use this thread to Practice HTML & Picture posting
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Perhaps we could use this thread for posting some practice posts
A sort of sand box?
AND...............
If any one else out there thinks we need a better user interface PLEASE Post Here
I have been asking for over a year
Are Riversong and I the Only Ones?
OK,....noboby else cares
If someone will just tell me how to make a grey box ....
I will quit complaining about the user interface
John,
The "gray box" innovation was first made by Michael Blasnik. I examined his posting, and I discovered his secret. Type the "less than" symbol ( ). That marks the beginning of your box.
To mark the end of your box, type the same gibberish, except with a forward slash ( / ) right before the word "blockquote".
John,
The forward slash to indicate the end of the box goes between the < and the word "blockquote".
Thanks Martin,
I think blockquote will be handy
I don't think i can take credit for the gray box, but thanks anyway. You can find out about other formatting options by just reading the little bullet list under the box you type into. The second bullet lists the html tags that are allowed. each tag starts as shown and ends with a slash immediately preceding the word inside the less than and greater than symbols.
It looks like you should be able to get strong = bold face and underline and em = emphasis = italics The ol tag has to do with lists and the dl dt dd with definition formatting. The a tag will let you name your links to other web pages. You can look up common html tags pretty easily to get more info.
John,
Now you've done it! The "green" forum is going to full of "little boxes made of ticky tacky, little boxes all the same".
Ah,
Levitown
Levittown was brilliant. My parents bought their first house there before I was born. Slab-on-grade with radiant heat, unfinished 2nd floor for future expansion. Not just a bedroom community but real neighborhoods with schools, post offices, community centers, public swimming pools.
The primary drawback initially, was that it was "whites only" by legal covenant.
Armando,
I think the tiny font is the only option.
The GBA advisors get the Big font in a box with a border.
Armando,
I think a better use of the grey/beige box is for quoting someone...not for general comments.
Let me try that again. No edit function so we plebians are stuck with our mistakes.
Yeah. Quite the class distinction, ain't it?
I feel descriminated!!! Thanks for the info and I'll follow protocol in the future :-))
A means of posting attachements would be nice even if it's just for paid member use only.
Not more discrimination! There's already a clear class structure here.
From my perspective, the most important improvements would be (in this order):
- an editing function so that posters can correct typos or other errors
- a required field for City and State so questions can be placed in climatic and regional context
- required full names (even if it can't be enforced, just stating that will encourage transparency)
- a check box for occupation (architect, engineer, builder, home-owner, other) that gets appended to each name so we know to whom we're corresponding
All good ideas Robert. I didn't mean to come across as discriminatory. It would be good to have an attachment feature. I think sometimes people (especialy lay people like myself) are better able to express themselves through drawings, pictures or photos rather than with written words.
Don't you mean State/Province? Don't discriminate against us Canadians eh? ;)
practicing bold font......
I just recently learned what a "hoser" was
I always thought it meant something else
Maybe another change could be that one can ask a question to more than one "blog subject" at the same time so different group of folks have a chance to answer.
Test to see if we can add a photo from Google's Picassa:
Did it work?
Test to see if we can add a photo from Google's Picassa:
Did it work?
Dan,
This is great!
Do you think this will work with other Photo sharing sites like Flickr?
Hey,
I just noticed the new "input format" feature below the (post new answer box)and the new Formatting tips
I will be giving them a try
thanks
Bumpin the "grey box" thread for Danny
Thanks John
Thanks Rusty
maybe you forgot the backslash in the blockquote
you can practice here on this thread
maybe I should have said
forward slash in the closing blockquote
the best advice ...see Martin's comments from Feb 5
I'm not sure, John. I have a different set of privileges than regular users. When I sign out and then sign in as someone else, I don't have all of the options in the 'Input Format' section; it's restricted to 'Filtered HTML' rather than 'Full HTML'
The IT department has told me that pictures will be coming to the forum very soon. I'll keep after them.
Dan
bump
testing a site link PureWood Products
try this again PureWood Products
per TJ Elder,
TJ ....your suggestion is not working for me...hmmm?
I hold down alt then type 0.....when I hit the 1 the page shifts on me
John, are you using Windows? The degrees symbol is also in the Character Map (All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Character Map). It says there what the keyboard shortcuts are. If you use a different OS then the codes may be different.
It would be sweet if there were a way to hack the keyboard and change a useless key like Scroll Lock or Insert and make that a degrees key.
The Num Lock has to be on.
° (degree sign) is ALT-248 in the IBM ASCII extended character set for PCs.
http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/biophysics/technotes/program/ascii_ext-pc.htm
The key combos are different for Macs:
http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/biophysics/technotes/program/ascii_ext-mac.htm
testing 451°
it was the NUMLOCK Key! thanks
Is that F or C? Are you a closet book burner?
Good catch there Robert!
Testing
a
em
strong
cite
codeul
ol
li
dl
dt
dd
Learning some html
Again
Cool. I was wondering how you do that.
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, but they don't last long if they try.
GBA Blogs Page Just Testing.... Thanks Lucas
Snipping Tool
For Posting "Screen Shots" or portions of screen shots
I found this free progam on my Windows PC
It is fairly user friendly
>Windows Start
>All Programs
>Accessories Folder
>Snipping Tool
Feel free to practice on this thread
Terrorism for Dummies
FYI
I was just editing a post
trying to correct a link
I noticed that I could not paste the new link
until I deleted the old link.
probably an anti-spam feature
I think it will work if you use wheat paste.
Roy,
Did you figure out the Snipping Tool?
there are other methods if you are not using windows
One nice thing about the snipping tool
you can capture screenshots from videos
here is a European Cellulose blow
interesting how they use the bag
You mean no windows, like in the house in your picture?
And, isn't that a vacuum cleaner bag? I think they're sucking out the insulation.
the house has windows
I believe they are blowing and the bag is filtering the overblow?
here is the video
starting around 3:34 from the begining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBQHBr7zn0M&feature=related
Yah, I've seen that video. It reminds me of the house I least enjoyed building - a panelized creation of a TVA engineer and architect that I assembled on a community land trust in rural TN in 1982, sans tape.
test2
of the blockquote feature
John H,
It looks like you already figured it out
JB
test photo
Think I've got it now John thanks
Test
test~ now what am I gonna do?
Michael Blasnik,
Since You are the originator of the gray box here at GBA......
Why is the text in your recent gray box quotes "not-so-dark"?
and thanks for the gray box ;--)
Robert,
maybe it is my screen or my eyes... the blockquote box looks gray to me
the Question box appears very light green to me.
But...but...but...
Am I the only one who can see that the box is a very light green and not gray at all?
Or is that an artifact of my browser or my computer screen?
And, I was wondering the same thing about Michael's recent not-so-light-green blockquote boxes.
And, I sure wish there was a more automatic way to quote a line or include a textual hyper-link than having to type the html tag. What a primitive website this is - you'd think it was created by REALLY GREEN luddites.
A little other basic aid to posting. Spell check is built into Google Chrome. There is a browser add on feature for Microsoft IE. If not into spell checkers, for a certain someone, a neat rule from third grade, i before e except after c.
Another over the top tool for someone like myself... posting from Microsoft Word one can get help with all the rules of proper English, though as has been pointed out, I don't partake in such activities, LOL.
Question to you pic posters, how do you combine two or more pics side by side into one pic? I know how to do panarama pics but have not done a "before and after" style joined pic.
Just Googled my question and found out about the collage function in my Picasa program. Is that what you all our doing it seems? I like it.
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=19539
John, I may be able to answer your question.
John, the not-so-dark text is made by embeding one html tag within the other.
abcd
Oops. My example didn't go the way I wanted.
Amanda,
here is one way to copy links
your browser may look different
Copy the link in the browser window
and then paste it into your post
Armando,
the blockquote feature is quirky
sometimes I have to nest a "strong" html pair
see comment 80 below
I am using Internet Explorer 9
I am not having any problems at any other websites...
But I can not "enlarge" most photographs here at GBA
I can only view photos that are posted at the Q&A ...
But that is all ...can not "enlarge" any other photographs at GBA
Any ideas?
problem started about 2 weeks ago even before I upgraded to Internet Explorer 9
hey Minneapolis
here is a tip for attaching pictures
be sure to select the "Attach" button before you select "Post"
what do you think..Ginger..or Mary Ann?
Hey Dan and or Martin,
How about some hints on how to use the "quirky" search feature here at GBA?
I have never seen any instructions ...
and I have no idea why it "seems" to work sometimes.
More often than not... it does not work at all.
Edit to say...
I have just recently tested the feature and for now it seems to be working
hmmm
John,
The search feature at GBA is, indeed, quirky. As far as I can tell, its biggest bug is that it doesn't search well for proper nouns (names of people, geographic features, etc.). I have no idea why -- but the tech people are working on it.
Believe it or not, GBA hopes to announce some website improvements in a month or six weeks, if all goes well.
Martin
If you are working on a wish list....
searching or filtering for posts by the poster's name would be very usefull
for example Michael Blasnik or Bill Rose
John,
Thanks for the suggestion. That improvement is already on our list. Please keep those suggestions coming, though -- they are much appreciated.