Quick technical question

Subject: Quick technical question
From: glsummer
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 08:39 PM

I'm new here, and just posted for the first time recently. I noticed someone had added line breaks to my posting, which I thought I had done. This may be a really stupid question, but what might I have done wrong? I'm baffled. Thanks for any help for this newbie!

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Aug 99 - 08:50 PM

Hi- the 'Cat is set up for HTML, which allows us to do some neat stuff when we know how. However, it also means we have to do some easy stuff the hard way. Instead of just a carriage return or hitting the "enter" key, you have to put an HTML line break tag at the end (or beginning) of each line. The tag is simple - it looks like this:

<br>

You can type lyrics in a word processor and use the "replace" function on your "edit" menu. Replace carriage returns with another carriage return, plus the line break, and then select "replace all." Good luck.
Holler if you need help.
-Joe Offer, one of the HTML fixers-

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: glsummer
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 05:41 PM

Thanks so much, Joe!

That's what I get for cheating and doing a home page
with Netscape Composer instead of learning HTML. ;-)

Hope I did that right!

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: Peter T.
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 05:56 PM

and a welcome to you glsummer, and may you get here all the line breaks.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From:
Date: 05 Aug 99 - 09:45 PM

GL, there are some old threads that help explain how to do the line breaks, and such. Look at these two message threads :

HTML Stuff
HTML Practice Thread

Enjoy!

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 12:47 AM

You're welcome to use the "HTML Practice" thread to try out what you learn. Joe Offer promises to delete all the more embarrassing goofs when the thread has run its course. I feel much better, as a result of the offer (so to speak). Now watch this "indent" work for me!
     Sandy

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: Graham Hyett (Guernsey)
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 03:28 PM

When accessing Mucat for some songs I ran into:- 403 URL access denied, did i do any thing wrong. If so I apologise please put me right. thank you.

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From:
Date: 06 Aug 99 - 09:47 PM

Graham, no, you did nothing wrong. Whomever did the web-page at that url made a little boo-boo.

Most files online have "permissions" set on them. In this particular case, the person did not set them so that everyone can access them. If you know the person who set up that web-page, you should tell them. It's easily fixed if they know about it.

Anyway, it is not something you did.

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 Aug 99 - 03:54 AM

Graham, maybe you hit the pages while Max was updating things this week. If you have trouble again, go to the help forum (or if it isn't working, go here) and give us the URL of the page that was giving you trouble (you can copy [ctrl-c] the URL from the address bar of your browser and paste [ctrl-v] it in the "reply to thread" box.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: poet
Date: 09 Aug 99 - 07:02 PM

thank you i'm glad about that.

graham hyett

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Aug 99 - 06:23 PM

Just today, when I go to a thread, read it, then go back to the main threads page, the title of the thread changes colour to show I've looked at it, which it has always done.

Then, it would change back to the original "unread" colour, if someone else posted to that thread and I hadn't gone back and read their posting.

Today, the threads someone else posts to after I've been there, are not changing back to the original colour to notify me that there are messages I've not read.

Does this all make sense to someone? Is there an easy fix?

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Aug 99 - 07:05 PM

Now, it is really goofy. when I post to a thread, it stays the same colour as ones I've read! I have reset my cookie, refreshed the threads; closed the program down, disconnected and reconnected; all to no avail!

I really like the colour coding, let's me know where I've been, where I am at, and where I might want to go! Help, MAX!! Joe!!! Anybody!!! I am LOST!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: Max
Date: 10 Aug 99 - 08:10 PM

Well, Joe convinced me that adding the number of messages to the URL was a bad idea. This is what made the thread change color when a new message was posted. So blame it on Joe. He thinks he knows what's best for ALL sometimes, but of course only I know that. No, seriously, I did make a change to eliminate the NECESSITY of the number of messages in the forum for good reason that Joe and others pointed out, but I think I can restore the effect you speak of without effecting that. Let me try...

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: Max
Date: 10 Aug 99 - 08:16 PM

That did it. (I think)

Subject: RE: Quick technical question
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Aug 99 - 08:31 PM

It looks like that that did the trick, Max. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

katbackinequilibriumagain!