HTML hints for Dummies

Perhaps we could use this thread for posting some practice posts
A sort of sand box?

AND...............
If any one else out there thinks we need a better user interface PLEASE Post Here
I have been asking for over a year
Are Riversong and I the Only Ones?

OK,....noboby else cares
If someone will just tell me how to make a grey box ....
I will quit complaining about the user interface

Maybe I do not need the slash

attemping blockquote again

Thanks Martin,
I think blockquote will be handy

I don't think i can take credit for the gray box, but thanks anyway. You can find out about other formatting options by just reading the little bullet list under the box you type into. The second bullet lists the html tags that are allowed. each tag starts as shown and ends with a slash immediately preceding the word inside the less than and greater than symbols.

It looks like you should be able to get strong = bold face and

underline

and em = emphasis = italics The ol tag has to do with lists and the dl dt dd with definition formatting. The a tag will let you name your links to other web pages. You can look up common html tags pretty easily to get more info.

John,

Now you've done it! The "green" forum is going to full of "little boxes made of ticky tacky, little boxes all the same".

Ah,
Levitown

Levittown was brilliant. My parents bought their first house there before I was born. Slab-on-grade with radiant heat, unfinished 2nd floor for future expansion. Not just a bedroom community but real neighborhoods with schools, post offices, community centers, public swimming pools.

The primary drawback initially, was that it was "whites only" by legal covenant.

How come some boxes are with a gray box and larger print and others are beige background and small print? I tried and came out small print too...

Armando,
I think the tiny font is the only option.
The GBA advisors get the Big font in a box with a border.

Armando,
I think a better use of the grey/beige box is for quoting someone...not for general comments.

The GBA advisors get the Big font in a box with a border.<.blockquote>

Yeah. Quite the class distinction, ain't it?

Let me try that again. No edit function so we plebians are stuck with our mistakes.

The GBA advisors get the Big font in a box with a border.

Yeah. Quite the class distinction, ain't it?

I feel descriminated!!! Thanks for the info and I'll follow protocol in the future :-))

AND...............
If any one else out there thinks we need a better user interface PLEASE Post Here
I have been asking for over a year
Are Riversong and I the Only Ones?

A means of posting attachements would be nice even if it's just for paid member use only.

A means of posting attachements would be nice even if it's just for paid member use only.

Not more discrimination! There's already a clear class structure here.

From my perspective, the most important improvements would be (in this order):
- an editing function so that posters can correct typos or other errors
- a required field for City and State so questions can be placed in climatic and regional context
- required full names (even if it can't be enforced, just stating that will encourage transparency)
- a check box for occupation (architect, engineer, builder, home-owner, other) that gets appended to each name so we know to whom we're corresponding

All good ideas Robert. I didn't mean to come across as discriminatory. It would be good to have an attachment feature. I think sometimes people (especialy lay people like myself) are better able to express themselves through drawings, pictures or photos rather than with written words.

- a required field for City and State so questions can be placed in climatic and regional context

Don't you mean State/Province? Don't discriminate against us Canadians eh? ;)

Lucas:"Don't discriminate against us Canadians eh?"

practicing bold font......
I just recently learned what a "hoser" was
I always thought it meant something else

Maybe another change could be that one can ask a question to more than one "blog subject" at the same time so different group of folks have a chance to answer.

Dan,
This is great!
Do you think this will work with other Photo sharing sites like Flickr?

Hey,
I just noticed the new "input format" feature below the (post new answer box)and the new Formatting tips

I will be giving them a try
thanks

Bumpin the "grey box" thread for Danny

Bumpin the "grey box" thread for Danny

Thanks John

Thanks Rusty
maybe you forgot the backslash in the blockquote
you can practice here on this thread

maybe I should have said
forward slash in the closing blockquote

the best advice ...see Martin's comments from Feb 5

Hey this is fun!

Thanks John

bump

testing a site link PureWood Products

try this again PureWood Products

FYI, to type a degree symbol in the Arial font, hold down Alt and type 0176.

per TJ Elder,

TJ ....your suggestion is not working for me...hmmm?
I hold down alt then type 0.....when I hit the 1 the page shifts on me

John, are you using Windows? The degrees symbol is also in the Character Map (All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Character Map). It says there what the keyboard shortcuts are. If you use a different OS then the codes may be different.

It would be sweet if there were a way to hack the keyboard and change a useless key like Scroll Lock or Insert and make that a degrees key.

The Num Lock has to be on.

° (degree sign) is ALT-248 in the IBM ASCII extended character set for PCs.

http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/biophysics/technotes/program/asci...

The key combos are different for Macs:

http://academic.evergreen.edu/projects/biophysics/technotes/program/asci...

testing 451°

it was the NUMLOCK Key! thanks

testing 451°

Is that F or C? Are you a closet book burner?

Testing
a
em
strong
cite
code

ul

ol

dl

Learning some html

Again

Cool. I was wondering how you do that.

Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly, but they don't last long if they try.

Snipping Tool

For Posting "Screen Shots" or portions of screen shots
I found this free progam on my Windows PC
It is fairly user friendly

>Windows Start
>All Programs
>Accessories Folder
>Snipping Tool

Feel free to practice on this thread