aargh
made a big long post here last night and it doesn't seem to have been posted.
rats
rats
posted by jkr2 | 6:55 am
- time wasters
- neville
- another HP ? re voldemort REVISTED
- sadness
- the old magic
- fantastic beasts
- another HP ? re voldemort
- cool article at mugglenet
- off topic on some muggle matters!
- one source of anxiety out of the way - the MS link
13 Comments:
Jo - When you ask how to do a link on our site, are you looking for something like this:
<a href="http://mugglematters.com">Muggle Matters</a>
hi pauli.
no i was wondering how you do those little highlighted words that are a link. so you don't have to have the long line of characters to cut and paste. you can just click where it says "here" or whatever.
jo
gotta bookmark this post myself , forgotten where I mislaid my copy of that text ... I need me an HBP HTML book LOL
But, Jo, that is the stuff you want ... for whatever it is - you just replace the "http://mugglematters.com" with whatever it is you want to link to and then the "Muggle Matters" with the words you want to be the highlighted link ... so that is the "code" you want to make any text link to any target in a comment. The comments interface is set to accept a certain amount of html code and that's basically what the carrots do, tell it hwere the code is, and the "opening tag" (the "a href=...") and the "closing tag" (the /a one) tell it what text to make into a link.
Refresher Pauli: the quotation marks have to stay in in the opening tag right?
in the interface of actually writing a post you can just highlight the text you want to be a link and then use the button that has 2 arrows making a rectangular circle
duhhhh.... could you give me, like a real life example? tutorial even?
i felt like i was reading some other language then.
i may be logical in a global, thematic way, but definately not in a sequential way.....
*embarassed blush*
Um, Ok, lets see ...
well, I'll try to come up with some examples by the end of this but maybe first a primer on the tag system.
hmmmm, but this is hard because it is in a comments box, which accepts html and thus I could say "If you want the word Muggle in bold, you would do this ..." meaning to give you the code ... but the comment box would just go ahead and render it as the word Muggle in bold ... gonna have to think about this one.
come to think of it I am wondering how Pauli got that one to show up the way he did.
I think what I will do is see if my angelfire webfolder is still operative and type up a word doc or notepad text file with what I know of HTML (which is not a huge amount, mind you) and some examples, and then toss a link up in this comment format with intstructions on right clicking and "save as"
But for here, let's see if can explain:
The general HTML tag system is
Opening Tag - Text which the tag affects - Closing Tag.
The "tags" are always encased in the < and > and the closing tag always has a / in it
In the case of the code Pauli put up (known as the "href" tag ... I'm loving how this is sort of resembling spells - making link tags/code is sort of like making a port key - and it is sort of like being inside Harry Potter to explain the this or that "tag" the way they are always talking abou the this or that hex or charm)... so, as I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself, in the href tag, provided by pauli
so, here is a test to see if it works (ie if I have any clue what in the world I am talking about):
Here is a link to my defunked personal web site
hmmm ... wants to keep it inside blogger
Let's try This
ahhhh ... that's better, guess you always have to use the http:// formula and not the www formula - and the quotation marks so stay in
I am slowly mastering the "webpage summoning charm" LOL
now I just have to get it "non-verbal" ie memorized so that I don't have to keep coming back here to copy the tex, but can reproduce it from memory as I can with the other TAGS (single letter like B for bold and I for Italics are so much easier on a skrewt's brain)
I'll put the link up soon to a tutorial doc
thanks for the trouble merlin.
my kids all just looked up from the tv to see what mumma was laughing at. "portkey" *chuckle chuckle*. love it.
i'm a real novice with computer stuff. i do forums and have found blogs recently and that's it really.
my 4 year old can work stuff out better than me with the games and stuff.
(of course if it was only up to me, they wouldn't be doing that yet, as i'm a bit of a luddite in my views of kids and technology. but their daddy gets as much a thrill watching them skillfully playing age of empires or world of warcraft as i do when my daughter is walking to the table with her nose in a book, absent mindedly pushing her glasses up her nose, or when my 2 year old dances with perfect rhythm in response to some music coming from next door....)
ok anyway.... i did that italics thing the other day to quote from your post and felt ridiculously smug, so, like i said - i'm a novice.
:-P
Ok
Right Click Here and then select "save target as" and choose a destination folder you will remember
THEN (and this is a little tutorial in web safety)
-go to your start menu
-go to programs/accessories/notepad
-once you have notepad open go to the file menu
-click "open" and choose the tagstutor file from the locat you you saved it to.
(sometimes if you expect an attached .exe file to be a virus, you can make a copy, change the extension of the copy to ".txt" and open it with notead and view the contents [ie the code/instructions safely)
The only thing I haven't managed to find again yet is that code/tag for a link that will actually open the linked material in a new browser page rather than redirecting the current one, so you manage to keep both open at the same time. I'll have to locate it some time
ok. i finally worked out how to read that. lol. i needed to realize that "programs/accessories/notepad" was like 3 steps. i kept looking everywhere for something that said all those 3 things. silly billy.
so do you write that whole thing out literally? it's quite long.
do you save that somewhere and cut and paste it when needed or do you just remember it (gulp)?
thanks for your trouble.
ah, yes ... sorry bout that one, easy to slip into that shorthand stuff ...
Um, yeah, might do to use that notepad file or something ... someplace quick you can just pop open and cut and paste what you need to (like maybe your desk top or my documents forlder ... if you're a pc user, I'm not familiar enough with MAC)... but if you use it often you'll be surprised how you start to remember it
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