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I think it would be useful to have a few threads which EXPERIENCED HTML guru-wannabes can add to, for those of us who could benefit from some rudimentary lessons. Of course there are plenty of sites on the net as well, so maybe some good links...I've tried to give examples of "how to add italics" for example, but I always end up with italicised print or something stupid (tried all this before I went online...).
What do you think? File your HTML posts under "Admin"...
-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000
Hey, there's no 'people photography' here...is this guy a bonehead? I should delete his thread...I guess this is one of those rare 'exceptions to the rule' (but let's keep such exceptions to a minimum just so it doesn't get crazy...).
-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.
I agree, there are way too many posts here without any contents related to 'People Photography'.
Philip's 22-minute HTML tutorial has already been mentioned and is a good starting point.
Shawn: To get italic text you can write
<I>this text should be italic</I>.To write the above line you write:
<CODE><I>this text should be italic</I></CODE>(I hope this all comes out all right!).
You might find the <PRE> tag - for preformatted text - useful.
Read the guide and use 'View Source' in your browser frequently. But without a preview feature I really strongly recommend that you keep your HTML to a minimum.
Hope this helps a little.
-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), February 05, 2000.
Shawn, you broke one of your own rules...No Personal Attacks (even if it was you attacking you!).
-- Todd Frederick (fredrick@hotcity.com), February 05, 2000.
Also remember that the version of
/bboardthat we are using here is not very robust: it is very easy to include HTML tags that will corrupt the whole page. Don't do it!Leave the HTML to an absolute minimum. Just the
P, IMG, A, EM, STRONG, CODE, I, Btags, please. And remember to close all your tags!
-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), February 05, 2000.
without a preview feature I really strongly recommend that you keep your HTML to a minimumThat's a great point. Maybe I should just blast this post before anyone reads it. No: I'll let it be a caveat: if you do want to code in HTML, make sure you're SURE, which is, I know, a real pain in the butt.
But who needs HTML, really, on a forum, except for posting images? WE CAN ALWAYS JUST YELL!!!
-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.
I've set this thread to expire in 3 weeks because, ultimately, you're right Allan. If the site picks up, I don't think it's wise for the whole world to know how easily the boards can be crashed with too much HTML use.
-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.
Here's something I do to ensure that 99% of the time my links work... Set up a 'test' HTML page on your local drive that just has the bare minimum reqd and alter that each time you're going to post an image, then once it's correct, cut'n'paste the line across to the photo.net input page. My test page html looks like (BTW I'm issueing a disclaimer right now.. this worked in my test page!) with an example link and image. <html>
<head>
<title>Test Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="http://photo.net">Photo.Net</a>
<P>
<img src=http://photo.net/photo/pcd1638/glen-canyon-dam-2.1.jpg>
</body>
</html>
-- Nigel Smith (nlandgl@eisa.net.au), February 06, 2000.
Of course I forgot one minor thing... a initial line feed! ohh well! You should be able to copy from the <HTML> tag down and paste into Notepad or other text editor and save as test.html then open in your browser.
-- Nigel Smith (nlandgl@eisa.net.au), February 06, 2000.