Dummy trying HTML commands

Subject: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Whippoorwill
Date: 24 Jul 97 - 04:07 PM

While things are quiet this afternoon, let's see if I can do this,

or maybe this.

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Alan of Oz
Date: 24 Jul 97 - 07:44 PM

Whippoorwill,
Thanks for that, our posts can now be much more colourful. I'll experiment offline to see what other colours we can get.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jul 97 - 08:58 PM

Just experimenting. Thanks for starting this thread.

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jul 97 - 09:00 PM

Whip.. how did you change the point size on the font for the word "this"?

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jul 97 - 09:52 PM

Hi, Alice, I think what he did was typed
font size equals seven
using the equals sign and the number seven, and enclosing them in brackets.
Of course, if we uninitiates* do it, we may make a mess of it. Be sure you know how to turn the effects off before you send the message.
Hope I did it right.
-Joe Offer-
Did I see somebody refer to "uninitiates" as "nubiles"???

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: suzy
Date: 24 Jul 97 - 10:23 PM

Whip, How did you do the color thing?

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From:
Date: 24 Jul 97 - 10:36 PM

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html#OC

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Alice
Date: 24 Jul 97 - 10:37 PM

Thanks. (That was a lovely malapropism from our blushing Belfast lady, typing "nubile" rather than "newbie".) What are effects and where do you turn them off? Alice

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Dale Rose
Date: 24 Jul 97 - 11:40 PM

The main thing is don't overuse or misuse HTML or people will grow tired of it in a hurry, and you will wake up one morning and find that it has all been taken away. When I first discovered HTML, I wanted to use every trick that there was, which pretty much obscured what I was trying to say. Now I mostly just use plain old black on white for practically everything. And of course, whatever you do, remember to close your effects properly, or nasty things will happen! In a chat room, your mistakes (and mine) are fleeting~~here for the moment, and gone in a little while. Mistakes we make here will linger so long that everyone will be sick of seeing them!

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Dale Rose
Date: 25 Jul 97 - 01:05 AM

Sorry I did not see (and answer) your question about effects, Alice. In my previous post, I used several totally unnecessary effects, in order, bold, underline, big, italic, blink, and color=red.

Go to the thread entitled Basic HTML commands for dummies to learn more about this sort of thing. Note that I used the bold effect to good advantage there, and turned it off properly!

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Whip
Date: 25 Jul 97 - 10:20 AM

Morning, all.

Just go here, and you'll know all I know.

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Whip (skundered)
Date: 25 Jul 97 - 10:25 AM

Oops!
Try that again, here, he said with a rueful grin.

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Whip
Date: 25 Jul 97 - 10:33 AM

I told you I was a dummy.

If this is not right, I'm going back to bed and turn the electric blanket up to womb temperature.

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: suzy
Date: 26 Jul 97 - 12:48 PM

Thanks Whip, I got there, but I'm going to have to return there when my brain is in refreshed-mode. Deep....deep....

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Whip
Date: 28 Jul 97 - 03:11 PM

Sorry it took three strikes to get a hit. I think I'm suffering from old-timer's disease.

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Rick
Date: 29 Jul 97 - 11:56 AM

Oh my God what did we start a few weeks back :-)

If you what to see how a particular HTML effect is achieved, see if your browser will let you look at the "Page Source" - this shows you the ASCII version of the page, and in my case, using Netscape Communicator, all the HTML is nicely rendered in various colours.

Rick.

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 10:20 AM

Dummy

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 10:23 AM

Dummy

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:14 AM

HTML practice

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:16 AM

HTML practice

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:18 AM

Yippee! it worked!

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: pdq
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:37 AM

My favorite movie is One Flew Over The Coocoo's Nest.

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:39 AM

Eh?

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: pdq
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:42 AM

I just figured out how to underline things. Don't read anything else into the post...really...

Subject: RE: Dummy trying HTML commands
From: Mr Happy
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 11:45 AM

o i c! 8-)