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Subject: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: Helen Date: 11 May 99 - 09:25 PM Hi all We seem to need a place for instructions on how to insert blue clicky thingies for posting site addresses. I do it the easy way. I copied the line of html which Joe Offer placed in a thread, and then I saved the line somewhere accessible (i.e. I filed it in my e-mail programme under a folder which I named "Keep these" so that I wouldn't delete it). Now when I want to do a clicky thingy I just copy and paste that line and replace the Mudcat address with the address I want to insert, and I can write anything I want by replacing the text which says "click here". Just in case the blue clicky thingy doesn't work, the site address for Joe's cut-and-paste text is: http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=73763
I can't write the text of the line out without it turning into a clicky thingy but someone who is html-literate will come rushing in on his/her white charger (computer) and do this for me, won't you Joe, or someone else during Joe's absence??
Helen
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: Helen Date: 11 May 99 - 09:30 PM Sorry - a line was missed out. I didn't mean (Not - yechhh!) about someone saving me - I had written "smiles sweetly and flutters eyelashes like a girl" (Not - yechhh!)(grin) but the pointy bracket things made it behave like html and it went walkies into the ether. SOmewhere there is a repository of all those bits of text we type in and then lose. Soemwhere James Joyce is compiling another stream of consciousness novel made up of all those missing thoughts. Helen |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: Banjer Date: 11 May 99 - 09:50 PM Helen, check this out. HTML STUFF Hope it helps! (Hope it works, too!) |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: John in Brisbane Date: 12 May 99 - 12:05 AM OK Helen! Here is a good site for Jazz Lyrics. To find it Just Click Here.
Regards Fixed by a Joe clone. |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: katlaughing Date: 12 May 99 - 12:15 AM Helen, thanks. I did have a print out of the html stuff, but couldn't figure it out for things within the mudcat. I've been doing great on links to elsewhere, so thought I had it down. Joe sent me a message which worked really well as an explanation, then I went on to explain to toehrs who said it worked well, so....I got good at surfing and linking...just not from cat to cat! I'll try again. Thanks bunches everyone! katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: John in Brisbane Date: 12 May 99 - 12:19 AM This had better be a blue thingy this time!
Regards, John |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: katlaughing Date: 12 May 99 - 12:22 AM Helen, I just looked at the Joe line and that IS what I've been using; it didn't work for things IN THE MUDCAT. In the html stuff thread there is a posting with a huge "Muligan" in it with an explanation of how to link another file on the same server, called relative linking; it's the address for that that I am not getting right. When I went to the thread for the Agincourt Carol, I copied the address, then pasted it in, but it didn't work. Every other time I've done that it worked. I am going to try it in here so I don't muck up the song title thread anymore. Here goes, alhtough I don't think it's going to work. The relative linking example I have doesn't have the http and www in it: |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: katlaughing Date: 12 May 99 - 12:24 AM Okay!!!I feel better and not so stupid. I must've gotten it wrong, somehow, in the other thread! YAHOOOOO!!! Thanks fer yer payshunce everyone! katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: John in Brisbane Date: 12 May 99 - 12:37 AM The last one sort of worked, but Here's a great link for English Folk Song! Try this again - Joe clone. |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: Helen Date: 12 May 99 - 01:51 AM Banjer, Thanks, I've saved html thread and I'll study it in detail off line. I have to admit I kept seeing the thread title and shying away from it - too hard basket, but maybe I'll learn it bit by bit as I need it. John, Both of those links took me elsewhere but both said that the page didn't exist. I think the site addresses might be wrong or something, but the important thing in this thread is that the clicky thingies actually did what they were supposed to do. Helen |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: John in Brisbane Date: 12 May 99 - 02:08 AM Click here. for a link to the Tartan Army songs. This time I've used slightly diffrent HTML commands. |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: Mick Lowe Date: 12 May 99 - 08:29 PM Okay Helen & co Pay attention, the Prof is in class and I shall say this only once, so listen very carefully ( apologies to anyone who used to watch the BBC sitcom). It's really quite easy adding an HTML command. There are a couple of magic words/phrases you need to know. First is the angled bracket that lets the beast know you are going to give it a command rather than some inane ramblings. This works for doing everything from line breaks "angled bracket .. i.e. < followed by 'br' for break and then another angled bracket .. that is ">" " I will do one now The formula for adding the blue clicky thing is a followed by href= ..precceded by our angled bracket of course.. that is you need to type "< a href=" after which you need to know the URl of the site/bit of the internet you wish to link to .. i.e. http://www.somewhereorother.. better still try http://www.prof.co.uk/irish1.htm.. Sorry but you have to plug your own site when ever you can Remember to enclose the URl in quotes and add the closing angled bracket ">". Whatever you type next appears as the text to the blue clicky thing. You then need to tell the beast that you have finished giving the link instructions. This is done by placing a "/a" within angled brackets. Obviously if I try and do that now it will cause problems.. So here is an example Prof's Irish Pages Now if you want to see how that was done or any other bits of HTML on any other site, simply click on View / Source and all the mysteries will be revealed to you May the HTML go with you Mick |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: Joe Offer Date: 12 May 99 - 10:08 PM Try this: -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: Joe Offer Date: 12 May 99 - 10:11 PM Copy the URL from the address bar of your browser, and put it in isntead of the red part. Put the song title in the blue part. Leave the rest alone. Simple, no? -Joe offer, in a Gateway store..... |
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Subject: RE: Creating blue clicky thingies for links From: Helen Date: 13 May 99 - 03:46 AM Thanks Joe, I knew you would show up with that nifty bit of html text. Helen |
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