Thanks. I recently wondered how to post pics of my own.
Willie the Wonder Cat says Hi!
Posted on 04/25/2007 5:19:01 PM PDT by gondramB
Edited on 12/14/2007 2:04:47 PM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
When I came to Free Republic I had never used HTML. All the guides seemed complicated. This is a guide where I try to keep it as short as possible to cover the most needed topics. There are many better and more complete guides. I'll link to a couple at the end.
Free Republic uses HTML where formatting is enclosed in “less than” and “greater than” signs like this <bold> </bold>unlike many boards that use brackets like this [bold] [/bold].
The first one starts the command and the second one (with the divided by sign) ends the formatting like this < b > Text < /b >
As soon as you use one HTML command in your post the Free Republic editor assumes you are doing all the formatting so you need to add you own line breaks and blank lines. Use the <br> command once for a line break, or twice (like this <br><br>) for one blank line, three times for two blank lines and so on.
To insert a clickable link: <a href=www.linkadress.com>Link description</a>
To insert a picture <img src=”www.linkadress.com/picturename.jpg”>
Other resources
To host photos for free and get the HTML generated for you www.photobucket.com This site doesn't allow porn so its less likely to be blocked at work.
More advanced Freep thread on HTML http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569737/posts
Best off-Freep resource page I've found http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
Good luck!
HTML Sandbox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1555762/posts
HTML Bootcamp (Cyber patriot training)
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aa5843c228c.htm
See also:
HTML Primer
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/
Webmonkey
http://webmonkey.com/webmonkey/frontdoor/beginners.html
Reference HTML Cheatsheet (Webmonkey)
http://webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/
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That’s great that you got the photo posting to work so quickly.
If anybody wants to post a picture but doesn’t want the hassle of singing up for a (free) photobucket.com account they can use http://www.tinypic.com/ instead.
Tinypic is owned by Photobucket and you can simply host a picture or video there without ever signing in but then you don’t have in an album with your other online pictures.
Tinypic will also generate the HTML for you.
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See? It works
YAKMROTFLMAO!
I haven’t seen that one before! Thanks.
PS I messed up my homepage trying to learn the 5 FR steps.
There IS a question above this line!
You can laugh, but that was cool...is that one of the 5 steps?
you can do view SOURCE
in your browser, look through it,
and COPY the code!
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A guide to using HTML on Free Republic in 5 lines
Painful experience | April 25, 2007 | GrondramB
Posted on 04/25/2007 7:19:01 PM CDT by gondramB
There IS a question above this line!
You can laugh, but that was cool...is that one of the 5 steps?
Let me know if you want me to fix it.
“Willie the Wonder Cat says Hi! “
Extra trick that is easy for us non-experts.
Anything you can type up and format in Microsoft Office or Open Office can be saved as HTML.
Then I use notepad to open the document and copy the html into a Freep post.
That lets me make posts that I can’t write the HTML for, like the first post in this thread
thanks. :)
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