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Self | 2/1/06 | TPartyType and Other FReepers

Posted on 02/01/2006 3:48:27 PM PST by TPartyType

Welcome Newcomers!

This Sandbox is devoted to giving you a place to practice basic HTML, and to get some coaching.


So, first things first:

Go to michigander's [ HTML Bootcamp (Cyber patriot training)] and learn there how to change font color, font size, font face, and the like.
THERE'S A WEALTH OF INFORMATION THERE NOT COVERED HERE (so as to avoid duplication).
Learn there also how to post a link and an image, then come back here to practice.

If you're having problems, folks will drop by occasionally to give you pointers and help you troubleshoot.


So practice here first and you'll get flamed out on the forum a lot less!


NEWCOMERS TIP: I just reread the FreeRepublic posting guidelines. They're worth a read by all newcomers [click here].


Following is an excellent previous post by Willie Green

But first, HTML advice from the FreeRepublic help page:

Basic HTML
The Free Republic forum uses standard HTML coding techniques. Use <p> to start new paragraphs. You may use <b> to begin bolding and <center> to center text, but please remember to end these items where appropriate with </b> and/or </center>, etc. If you post links or other advanced coding, be sure to test before posting.

Creating new paragraphs is about the only html that most posters ever need, but if you would like to learn more about html you may use any search engine on the internet to find tutorials. Simply search on "html tutorial". Here are links to a couple tutorials that I found:

The Basics

Paragraphs, Line Breaks and Horizontal Lines
A lengthy article or reply can be very tedious to read if it does not contain some very simple HTML formating. Inserting either of the following codes will make your post much more readable:


Character Formatting
Simple special effects may be created using Character Formatting Codes. These codes are used in pairs in the format: <?>words to be formatted</?>, where <?> turns the formatting "ON" and </?> turns the formating "OFF".

Please: ALWAYS turn "OFF" the formatting when you use it.

Some commonly used codes of this type are:

These codes can be "nested" to produce multiple effects at the same time. For instance:

<b><i>Bold and Italic</i></b> produces Bold and Italic


Links
The method for posting a HTML link is fairly simple. The following format is used:

<a HREF="URL">Link Description</a>

where "URL" is the URL address you want to link to (and you gotta use the double quotes), and Link Description is whatever you want to call your link. For example:

<a HREF="http://www.drudgereport.com/">Link to Drudge</a>

becomes Link to Drudge


And another from the same previous post:

<FONT COLOR="COLOR">Sample</FONT> produces colorful text.

"COLOR" is often a Hexidecimal Code for whatever Color you want, but color names are also supported.
Examples:

<FONT COLOR="blue">blue text</font> produces blue text

<FONT COLOR="red">red text</font> produces red text

<FONT COLOR="green">green text</font> produces green text


To: foolproof formatting

Here is an easy way to REMEMBER TO TURN OFF THE FORMATTING.

To be sure I turn off the formatting I TYPE THE "OFF" COMMAND AT THE SAME TIME AS THE "ON" COMMAND.

An example:
I want to respond to a line in a post by another brilliant Freeper.
I type < I >""< /I >< BR>
I then "cut and paste" his remarks between the quotes:
< i>" You are a poopy head "< /I>< BR>
And type my equally brilliant response: "No, you're a poopy head!"
The result:

"You are a poopy head"
No, you're a poopy head!

It's very easy to forget to turn off your formatting!
Yes it is!


To: ftrader, deport

Actually, the <ul> tag is for a bulleted list and stands for unordered list. The missing part is the list item tag (<li>) Here's an example:

<ul>
<li>List item #1
<li>List item #2
<li>List item #3
</ul>

Would display:


Finally . . .

Here's the link for [Webmonkey] (a super HTML training site).


This information is getting obsolete. Anyone care to help update?


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To: Miztiki

Looks great as is. :) Good Job!!


381 posted on 05/03/2007 9:35:33 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.)
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To: Miztiki
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382 posted on 05/03/2007 9:48:23 AM PDT by Miztiki (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Eccles. 10:4)
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To: Lucky9teen

Good cause it’s a pain in the butt getting all of those tags right and I’m tired of fooling with it.

Thanks again for your help.


383 posted on 05/03/2007 9:52:07 AM PDT by Miztiki (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Eccles. 10:4)
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This week's topic up for discussion:

What is supposed to be the purpose of our federal government?

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Each week I will present a topic to get things started, but please feel free to ask any questions you may have. This is the one place you may do so without getting jumped on for being DUmb, so come on board and maybe you'll learn a thing or two!

At the end of each week I'll summarize what has been discussed into one concise post. I'll include links to sources for more info and point you to the replies that were particularly informative. Be sure to sign up for the condensed version instead if you're short on time.

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384 posted on 05/03/2007 12:54:06 PM PDT by Miztiki (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Eccles. 10:4)
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To: Miztiki
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This week's topic up for discussion:

What is supposed to be the purpose of our federal government?

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The FReeper's Weekly Q&A Session is an educational ping list designed to help FReepers expand their knowledge and understanding of our government from a conservative standpoint. Join myself and others as we explore the Constitution, learn who our representatives are, and discuss laws and issues from a perspective we may not have considered before.

Each week I will present a topic to get things started, but please feel free to ask any questions you may have. This is the one place you may do so without getting jumped on for being DUmb, so come on board and maybe you'll learn a thing or two!

At the end of each week I'll summarize what has been discussed into one concise post. I'll include links to sources for more info and point you to the replies that were particularly informative. Be sure to sign up for the condensed version instead if you're short on time.

FRegards!



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The Constitution Society "aims to eventually provide almost everything one needs to accurately decide what is and is not constitutional in most situations…"

385 posted on 05/03/2007 2:33:46 PM PDT by Miztiki (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Eccles. 10:4)
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To: Miztiki
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This week's topic up for discussion:

What is supposed to be the purpose of our federal government?

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The FReeper's Weekly Q&A Session is an educational ping list designed to help FReepers expand their knowledge and understanding of our government from a conservative standpoint. Join myself and others as we explore the Constitution, learn who our representatives are, and discuss laws and issues from a perspective we may not have considered before.

Each week I will present a topic to get things started, but please feel free to ask any questions you may have. This is the one place you may do so without getting jumped on for being DUmb, so come on board and maybe you'll learn a thing or two!

At the end of each week I'll summarize what has been discussed into one concise post. I'll include links to sources for more info and point you to the replies that were particularly informative. Be sure to sign up for the condensed version instead if you're short on time.

FRegards!



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The Constitution Society "aims to eventually provide almost everything one needs to accurately decide what is and is not constitutional in most situations…"

386 posted on 05/03/2007 2:37:15 PM PDT by Miztiki (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Eccles. 10:4)
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To: Miztiki
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This week's topic up for discussion:

What is supposed to be the purpose of our federal government?

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The FReeper's Weekly Q&A Session is an educational ping list designed to help FReepers expand their knowledge and understanding of our government from a conservative standpoint. Join myself and others as we explore the Constitution, learn who our representatives are, and discuss laws and issues from a perspective we may not have considered before.

Each week I will present a topic to get things started, but please feel free to ask any questions you may have. This is the one place you may do so without getting jumped on for being DUmb, so come on board and maybe you'll learn a thing or two!

At the end of each week I'll summarize what has been discussed into one concise post. I'll include links to sources for more info and point you to the replies that were particularly informative. Be sure to sign up for the condensed version instead if you're short on time.

FRegards!



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The Constitution Society "aims to eventually provide almost everything one needs to accurately decide what is and is not constitutional in most situations…"

387 posted on 05/03/2007 2:43:26 PM PDT by Miztiki (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Eccles. 10:4)
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To: Miztiki
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This week's topic up for discussion:

What is supposed to be the purpose of our federal government?

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The FReeper's Weekly Q&A Session is an educational ping list designed to help FReepers expand their knowledge and understanding of our government from a conservative standpoint. Join myself and others as we explore the Constitution, learn who our representatives are, and discuss laws and issues from a perspective we may not have considered before.

Each week I will present a topic to get things started, but please feel free to ask any questions you may have. This is the one place you may do so without getting jumped on for being DUmb, so come on board and maybe you'll learn a thing or two!

At the end of each week I'll summarize what has been discussed into one concise post. I'll include links to sources for more info and point you to the replies that were particularly informative. Be sure to sign up for the condensed version instead if you're short on time.

FRegards!



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The Constitution Society "aims to eventually provide almost everything one needs to accurately decide what is and is not constitutional in most situations…"

388 posted on 05/03/2007 2:45:27 PM PDT by Miztiki (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Eccles. 10:4)
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To: TPartyType
I will love you guys forever for this!

Thanks so much.

:O)

P
389 posted on 05/03/2007 2:47:19 PM PDT by papasmurf (Patience is, not only, a virtue...it's also a weapon. Be patient FRed!)
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To: Miztiki
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This week's topic up for discussion:

What is supposed to be the purpose of our federal government?

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Better yet, sign up for both!


KEYWORD: weeklyq&a

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The FReeper's Weekly Q&A Session is an educational ping list designed to help FReepers expand their knowledge and understanding of our government from a conservative standpoint. Join myself and others as we explore the Constitution, learn who our representatives are, and discuss laws and issues from a perspective we may not have considered before.

Each week I will present a topic to get things started, but please feel free to ask any questions you may have. This is the one place you may do so without getting jumped on for being DUmb, so come on board and maybe you'll learn a thing or two!

At the end of each week I'll summarize what has been discussed into one concise post. I'll include links to sources for more info and point you to the replies that were particularly informative. Be sure to sign up for the condensed version instead if you're short on time.

FRegards!



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The Constitution Society "aims to eventually provide almost everything one needs to accurately decide what is and is not constitutional in most situations…"




(Sorry for so many posts but I'm having particular trouble with the 2nd email option sometimes working and sometimes not. If anyone knows why it does this or how to fix it then please let me know.)

390 posted on 05/03/2007 3:38:17 PM PDT by Miztiki (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Eccles. 10:4)
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To: Miztiki
FReepmail me to get on or off this weekly ping list.

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Better yet, sign up for both!

All 3 of the options work when I preview, but the last two only work half the time when I send it through. WHY??? It just worked in preview, let's see if it works now...

391 posted on 05/03/2007 3:50:36 PM PDT by Miztiki (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Eccles. 10:4)
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To: Dante3
I cut out a cartoon from the newspaper. How do I post it on FR? It probably is mentioned here somewhere. My computer knowledge is greatly limited - so it would have to be simple.

I just saw this question, and that it was still unanswered. So, if you're still needing to know how to get a newspaper clipping on to FR, here you go:

  1. Digitize the cartoon, either by using a scanner or by taking a picture of it with a digital camera. Either way, you should end up with (preferably) a .JPG image of the cartoon.
  2. Use a digital photo editing program, one is usually included on the CD that came with the scanner or camera, to resize the (probably) large .JPG file to a more reasonable size. (I'd say the largest dimension should be less than 1000, at the most, maybe half that)
  3. Upload that .JPG file to an Internet location. If your Internet provider has included some FTP space as part of your package, there should be some instructions available from them as to how you upload a file to your FTP area. Otherwise, you can upload the .JPG file to a free image hosting service, such as Tinypic or ImageShack.
  4. After uploading the image, you'll need to determine the URL that links to it. The free hosting sites should display the URL right after you upload the file. Copy that URL (i.e. http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/7792/agdnc04zv5.jpg) and paste it into Notepad, or some place where you can save it.
  5. To post the image onto Free Republic, use the HTML tag "IMG" like so: <IMG SRC="MyURL">.

    The URL I used above is an image of Al Gore that's on ImageShack, so we'll use it:

    <IMG SRC="http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/7792/agdnc04zv5.jpg"> will give us this:


392 posted on 05/04/2007 6:57:33 AM PDT by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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To: TChris

Thank you!


393 posted on 05/04/2007 11:13:15 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Dante3
Thank you!

You're welcome.
394 posted on 05/04/2007 2:54:10 PM PDT by mutley
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To: mutley

This isn’t an HTML thing, but I’d like to play in the sandbox.

I’d like to learn about taglines. I hope they don’t have to be re-typed with every post. I’ll check.


395 posted on 05/08/2007 10:17:37 AM PDT by Swordfished (Tagline testing 1,2,3!)
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To: Swordfished

Looks like the tagline stays in my browser’s cache (?)
Good deal.


396 posted on 05/08/2007 10:18:45 AM PDT by Swordfished (Tagline testing 1,2,3!)
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To: Swordfished

Yep - they hang ‘til ya change ‘em...


397 posted on 05/08/2007 10:23:08 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: ErnBatavia
hello
398 posted on 05/15/2007 11:33:52 AM PDT by nowandlater
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To: nowandlater
Hey Megaman

Hey

Hey

Hello


399 posted on 06/11/2007 11:44:17 AM PDT by LowOiL (Paul wrote, "Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil" (Rom. 12:9))
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To: TPartyType
Free Image Hosting by FreeImageHosting.net

Testing.
400 posted on 06/19/2007 4:51:51 AM PDT by mutley
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