17 Jul 97 - 06:15 PM (#8925) Subject: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: LaMarca Quite a few of our correspodents seem to be more computer- and web-literate than I, and have demonstrated and given instructions on how to do some pretty useful things in the middle of some other threads. Would you kind people please summarize here the commands to:
Put in tabs or indent part of a message so you can lay out verses and choruses of songs in different chunks. Put in a link to another web site. Include HTML characters like the right and left arrow brackets in a message so one can illustrate the command without actually executing it. |
17 Jul 97 - 11:29 PM (#8939) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: sharon I'd especially like to know how to put in a link to another web site. |
18 Jul 97 - 05:30 AM (#8959) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Andy Geliher There are resources on the Web providing HTML intro's. A couple of a standards I used when learning were:
You can also use your browsers veiw source option to see how to insert HTML tags and special characters such as " < >". (try it out). AndyG |
18 Jul 97 - 05:46 AM (#8960) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Wolfgang I give it a try. All of the following I have learned some place here in this group (or even copied from there), but you are right, LaMarca, the information should be at one place. Here it is (and I'm curious whether I get it all correct):
1. Hard break: type <BR>
2. Indent part of a message:
3. Put a link to another website:
type <a href=URL-Adress-of-the-Website>any-name-you-like-to-call-it</a> (Example: if the URL-Adress-of-the-website is http://www.summerfolk.org/srmain.htm and my choice for any-name-you-like-to-call-it is The Stan Rogers Page and I type it as described above then you can click from here The Stan Rogers Page.
4. Include HTML characters like the right and left arrow brackets in a message so one can illustrate the command without actually executing it. (What comes now is new for me; good check whether I have understood that message)
&lt gives you the < Thanks to all those who have explained it before me and made possible this compilation. Wolfgang |
18 Jul 97 - 03:09 PM (#9012) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Joe Offer Thanks for the advice, Wolfgang. I think I understand it now. I tried it on the "Song for the Mira" thread, and it worked pretty well. I couldn't quite figure out how to indent. When I followed your instructions, it came out with bullets. What did I do wrong? Is there an easy, foolproof way to search-and-replace in a word processor so I can come up with a document that works here? -Joe Offer- |
19 Jul 97 - 04:51 AM (#9051) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Alan of Oz When you are preparing a message you can do it offline using any text editor e.g. notepad. Save your file with a .HTM extension. Then double click on its icon - your browser should start with your file open and properly formatted as we will see it after you post it. Like Wolfgang I've mostly learned bits of HTML from this forum. Another way to see how other people do it (apart from View/Source) is to open the thread, then save it (File/Save As File). The default extension is .htm. You can then view the source offline (and experiment) using notepad. View your results by double clicking on the icon etc. Cheers, |
21 Jul 97 - 01:43 PM (#9162) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: LaMarca Thank you to both Andy and Wolfgang -this is exactly what I was looking for! |
22 Jul 97 - 11:01 AM (#9225) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Wolfgang Sorry Joe, I cannot really tell you what went wrong: The advice for the indentation was new to me and I got it obviously (at least half) wrong. Where I tried to copy it from is here. |
22 Jul 97 - 06:45 PM (#9273) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Alan of Oz |
22 Jul 97 - 06:47 PM (#9275) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Alan of Oz To test: You can do your testing offline if you like, see my earlier posting to this thread. Cheers, |
23 Jul 97 - 05:58 AM (#9315) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Wolfgang second try at the indentation question: (Andy's view source hint early in the thread helped a lot) You type: SONGTITLE 1. Verseone lineone <BR> verseone linetwo <BR> verseone linethree <BR> verseone linefour. <blockquote> chorus lineone <BR> chorus linetwo <BR> chorus linethree <BR> chorus linefour. </blockquote> 2. Versetwo lineone <BR> versetwo linetwo <BR> versetwo linethree <BR> versetwo linefour.
you get: SONGTITLE
1. Verseone lineone
chorus lineone
2. Versetwo lineone
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23 Jul 97 - 10:18 AM (#9337) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: suzy Those s and |
23 Jul 97 - 11:10 AM (#9350) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: s? |
23 Jul 97 - 02:49 PM (#9374) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: suzy Sorry. I sure messed up that question. what I was trying to ask.......... those letters within the pointy brackets..... are they typed just as you typed, or are they the symbol for something I dont understand??? |
24 Jul 97 - 03:03 AM (#9455) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Wolfgang Suzy, you type them just as you see them in my message, and after submitting what you have typed, those letters have disappeared and we only see what we shall see. So if you would type exactly what you see in my message below (perhaps with a nicer lyric) we will see it in the clean version. Cheers Wolfgang |
24 Jul 97 - 12:15 PM (#9485) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Whip Is there any provision in HTML for setting up hotkey macros? I like to use the "line break" command frequently, and sometimes the "bold," and will probably use others as I learn more about this. Right now, the only way I can avoid typing out the special characters every time is to use Edit-Copy, and then paste them in. This only works on one character at a time, and I have to get off the keyboard, grab the mouse, point and shoot, drop the mouse, get back on the keyboard.... Granted, this is a minor annoyance, but after 10 years of typing news copy with Wordperfect, I like the little short cuts, like inserting your name with two keystrokes, or adding a link without having to look up all the coding every time.
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02 Oct 97 - 07:04 AM (#13804) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: wolfgang thread revival |
07 Oct 97 - 06:28 PM (#14193) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Speed-1 Wolfgang - vielen dank! Und now Ivill practice und ve vill not tell Maxie,ja? THE EGG SONG
I had a hen REPEATNo eggs she gave REPEATI had a hen REPEATNo eggs she gave REPEATUntil that rooster REPEATCame in our yard REPEATAnd caught that hen REPEATCompletely off guard
Chorus: (sung together) We're having eggs now Fraulein Speed |
07 Oct 97 - 06:43 PM (#14195) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Speed-1 I hav zu viel spaces, ja? |
07 Oct 97 - 07:14 PM (#14201) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Joe Offer Hi, Speed - Besides indenting a quote or chorus, the [blockquote] and [/blockquote] (in angle brackets) add a space before and after the quote. But I'd say you're doing quite well, indeed. Just don't go putting in mile-high typeface and pictures of Miss Piggy, and Max won't mind. -Joe- |
08 Oct 97 - 05:12 PM (#14285) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Carl Wolfgang, don´t you think it´s a little bit foolhardy to give this thread a revival, while Max is starting the cut-back-on -HTML-thread ? I´m itching to tell you something about animated graphics and stuff and how to easily use them , perhaps as a signature or so. But I don´t want to become "de-joined". I´m sure that would be avenged with membership-cancellation. ;) |
09 Oct 97 - 03:42 AM (#14335) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Wolfgang Allright, Carl, the timing was unfortunate, but my revival came about 3 days before Max urged us to cut down our efforts on HTML. Wolfgang |
09 Oct 97 - 11:34 AM (#14339) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Whippoorwill Max Would it gum the system up if some of this information were sent as a message to the personal page, instead of a general posting? But then I wouldn't have the fun of reading them and learning from them. (sigh) Life is a series of trade-offs. |
09 Oct 97 - 11:59 AM (#14340) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Carl Wolfgang, perhaps your thread-revival was the reason for Max starting the cut-down-thread... ;) |
08 Feb 00 - 08:07 AM (#174938) Subject: RE: Basic HTML commands for dummies From: Ted from Australia If you use word 97 or above format everything as you want it in word, SAVE: as HTML, VIEW: html source, COPY: to clipboard then PASTE: into message box (here)
Then you do not have to learn any but the most basic HTML codes such as line breaks and blue clickies regards Ted |