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How to Format the Tony Snow Frontpage
At the end of the last tutorial, I mentioned, in passing, the Xinha plugin for Firefox. For those of us that are comfortable with new tools and internet browsers, this makes formatting Tony's FR Frontpage much easier.
You have to have the Firefox Browser which can be installed from here.
Next the Xinha pluggin can be installed from here.
And the FR thread on this here.
If you are using the Xinha plugin, you start with the FR Create Thread and paste in the template HTML which can be downloaded here (right click and save target as) into the FR "Thread Message" box.
Next right click in the message box, and select "Open Xinha Here"
To bring up the editor window itself
Now, as before, go to Tony's Home page. and select the text and graphics from "On the Show Today":
Now just go back to Xinhu, and paste the select over the "stub" that's been placed there.
And you get something like this:
I will usually add a "new line" at the end of the titles, so that they align a little better:
And if you are really ambitious, you can change the alignment of the images to "left" and make it look even better:
Finally, for reference, my recommendations from the previous thread on the rest of the form:
Title of Thread: The Tony Snow Show Thread - [Today's Date]
Topics: news
Keywords: FOXNEWS; TALKRADIO; TONYSNOW; TONYSNOWSHOW; WOOF
Author: Tony Snow
Date Published: [Today's Date]
Source: The Tony Snow Show
Source URL: http://www.tonysnow.com
if you use foxnews/tonysnow you will have to fight the automated excerpt Nazi
if you use foxnews/tonysnow you will have to fight the automated excerpt Nazi
Body of thread: HTML from above
This is an excerpt: Unchecked
Comment: anything else you might want to say
And there, you're done. Your head didn't explode, your computer didn't explode, and you didn't get any HTML on your clothes.
If it takes more that a minute, your doing something wrong.
It's so easy, even Tony can do it. Even though he feigns ignorance of such things, if he can teach calculus to teenagers, he can do this.
BTW, if Tony's webmaster ever misses his deadline again, my mock up is available here.