The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4630   Message #55655
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Jan-99 - 03:44 PM
Thread Name: HTML Stuff
Subject: RE: HTML Stuff
A couple of things that came up in the "Help forum.
Note that you have to cancel most HTML commands with a slash when you want them to stop doing their work. Kind of reminds me of the "Sorcerer's Apprentice." Examples:
</a> (closing links)
</blockquote>
</h3>
</font>
Notice that last one. If you want to change font color to red, you would put
<font color=red>
But you close it with just </font>

If you're posting a link, yuou can link to any page you can find on the Internet, not just to home pages. Actually, that's usually the best way to do it - highlight the URL in the address bar of your browser when you're at the page you want to link to, and then Copy it [ctrl-c]. Then Paste it [ctrl-v} into the link you're posting at Mudcat. There is just one problem with linking to a subordinate page like that - if you link to a page that's only going to be up temporarily, you link will go dead when that page is taken off the Web. That's not a big problem, though, and I wouldn't worry about it in the forum. In the links section of Mudcat, however, it's probably better in many cases to link to home pages than to specific pages at a site.

One more helpful hint for people posting links - it helps if you work with more than one browser window open, so you cn be viewing more than one page at a time and copying from one to the other. Most browsers allow you to open a new browser window by hitting [ctrl-n] (or the Mac equivalent). You can also go to "New" on the file menu of your browser.
-Joe Offer-