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Name: Imp
Date: January 16, 2004 at 19:18:07 Pacific
OS: Win 98
CPU/Ram: P 2 MMX /196 MB
Comment:

I noticed many posts in Computing.Net with automatic's links created, how to do it ? since you don't have any tools to create it ?
Thanks for your help.....



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Response Number 1
Name: jboy
Date: January 16, 2004 at 19:35:57 Pacific
Reply:

[a href=the actual, full address]link name[/a]

..only you use < instead of [


How to page


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Response Number 2
Name: The Count
Date: January 16, 2004 at 19:49:24 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Imp, jboy, hi everyone

The links are typed in, with basic HTML-code. :-)

<a href="http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/wwwboard.html" target=_blank>Windows 9x</a>

The above line, should be typed in as one line.
But there is another little trick you should know of. :-)
You can read more about it here: How to Enter Links
(http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/138745.html)

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,
The Count, Co-webmaster of mesich.com


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Response Number 3
Name: iambigepants
Date: January 16, 2004 at 19:49:51 Pacific
Reply:


[a href="the actual, full address"target="_blank"]link name[/a]

target="_blank" will allow the surfer to open the link in a new page so that you don't loose the page you where on and don't forget the " " and remove the [ ]

GOOD LUCK


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Response Number 4
Name: Imp
Date: January 16, 2004 at 20:03:38 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks a lot, I try a test myself to see !!
Imp Computing.Net post</a


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Response Number 5
Name: bart2
Date: January 16, 2004 at 20:04:54 Pacific
Reply:

How to post hyperlinks in forums, plus some other good tips:

http://www.btinternet.com/~robert.bale1/hyperlinks.htmw


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Response Number 6
Name: Imp
Date: January 16, 2004 at 20:08:32 Pacific
Reply:

it's work !!! perfect !!! and how to change the color of the link in blue for exemple ?


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Response Number 7
Name: The Count
Date: January 16, 2004 at 20:13:34 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Imp, jboy, mmmmmmm, goole, hi everyone

You have catched on quick, Imp. :-)
Congratulations!

Don't forget to include target=_blank at the end of the link. Thus after .hmtl" a space and than target=_blank>

Best Regards,
The Count


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Response Number 8
Name: The Count
Date: January 16, 2004 at 20:19:08 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Imp, jboy, mmmmmmm, goole, hi everyone

You are getting excited about aren't you? :-)

<a href="http://www.website.com" target=_blank><font color=blue>Imp's colored link</font></a>

Remember all in one line.

Best Regards,
The Count


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Response Number 9
Name: jboy
Date: January 17, 2004 at 00:07:34 Pacific
Reply:

ASCII


Got it - thanks Count, always meant to pick up how to display the actual code.

Hmm... goole's link looks quite familiar.


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Response Number 10
Name: The Count
Date: January 17, 2004 at 02:09:23 Pacific
Reply:

Hi jboy, Imp, mmmmmmm, goole, hi everyone

You are very welcome, jboy, I'm glad I could be of assistance to you after all you have done for the many.

I had the very same feeling.
It proofs that it is a good tutorial. :-)

Best Regards,
The Count


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Response Number 11
Name: trvlr
Date: January 17, 2004 at 03:54:31 Pacific
Reply:

"Tak" for this useful info chaps...


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Response Number 12
Name: Phil (by 2harts4ever1)
Date: January 17, 2004 at 04:00:50 Pacific
Reply:

Hi everyone,

Sorry for butting in, but I hate to waste this opportunity to see if I can follow your directions and make a link.

Here is my attempt: www.computing.net

Thanks and Regards,

Phil


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Response Number 13
Name: Phil (by 2harts4ever1)
Date: January 17, 2004 at 04:06:18 Pacific
Reply:

Hi again everyone,

Thank you .... thank you ... thank you! I have been trying for months to find out how to post a link.

Thanks to this forum and all the great answers to this post I think I have mastered the basics.

Thanks and Regards,

Phil


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Response Number 14
Name: Report_2
Date: January 17, 2004 at 04:19:44 Pacific
Reply:

"Don't forget to include target=_blank at the end of the link. Thus after .hmtl" a space and than target=_blank>"

Hmmm? I always use target="blank">. I'll have to give the underscore a try.

Thanks,
Bryan


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Response Number 15
Name: Phil (by 2harts4ever1)
Date: January 17, 2004 at 04:30:05 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Bryco,

In your post #14 you said: "Don't forget to include target=_blank at the end of the link. Thus after .hmtl" a space and than target=_blank>"

Do you mean I left something out when I posted my link? It seemed to come up okay.

Thanks and Regards,

Phil


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Response Number 16
Name: CK
Date: January 17, 2004 at 05:59:44 Pacific
Reply:

Hi, all.

Sorry to intervene, but to answer Phil:
No. You did not really leave anything out. Bryco was pointing out that some folks prefer to add "target=_blank" or "target=_new" so the link goes to a new window rather than in the same browser window.

Got it?

Hope This Helps..................ck


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Response Number 17
Name: Phil (by 2harts4ever1)
Date: January 17, 2004 at 06:04:26 Pacific
Reply:

Hi CK,

Got it! Thanks for clearing it up. I thought for a minute I hadn't 'mastered' it afterall.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Regards,

Phil


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Response Number 18
Name: The Count
Date: January 17, 2004 at 09:12:28 Pacific
Reply:

Hi jboy, Imp, mmmmmmm, goole, trvlr, Phil, Bryan, CK, hello everyone

trvlr, or anybody else who can me tell me what "Tak" means, please come out.
I have searched at Terri's PC Support but couldn't find the meaning of the word. :-(

Glad to see you got the hang of it, Phil.

Bryan,
target="blank", target=_blank and target="_blank" are valid code, and have the same effect.
Same thing with target="new", target=_new and target="_new".
It always opens a new IE window.
As far as I know _blank and _new are PHP notation.

What doesn't open a new browser windows is, at least not with IE 5.5:
"target=_blank" or "target=_new"

Best Regards,
The Count


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Response Number 19
Name: CK
Date: January 17, 2004 at 09:31:39 Pacific
Reply:

Hey, Count.
You are so right. I was always told to cross my T's and dot my I's but I guess I skipped the class that went over where to put the parentheses. ;-)

..............ck


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Response Number 20
Name: The Count
Date: January 17, 2004 at 10:03:43 Pacific
Reply:

Hi jboy, Imp, mmmmmmm, goole, trvlr, Phil, Bryan, CK, hello everyone

CK,
By no means I intended to lecture you. :-)
I only made notice of it to avoid confusion, and the links not work out like one would expect it too.

Best Regards and Wishes,
The Count


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Response Number 21
Name: trvlr
Date: January 17, 2004 at 11:01:49 Pacific
Reply:

"tak" is Scandinavian (Swedish) for thankyou - or so I was told as small boy... The dialect I spoke (as a child) is based in part on Swedish... Sometimes 'things' just come out...


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Response Number 22
Name: The Count
Date: January 17, 2004 at 11:30:01 Pacific
Reply:

Hi jboy, Imp, mmmmmmm, goole, trvlr, Phil, Bryan, CK, hello everyone

trvlr, tak. :-))
Thank you for explaining the meaning of the word.

Learned a Scandinavian word today. :-)

Best Regards and Wishes,
The Count


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Response Number 23
Name: Imp
Date: January 17, 2004 at 17:08:49 Pacific
Reply:

Hello Everyone, I think I got everything and I thank people to teach me so well.
1)In the same way, when I choose a font size 4 for a specific link, how do I come back to the regular computing.net font size to continue the post.
2) What command to use to get the "Hope This Helps" fading colors of CK ?
Imp


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Response Number 24
Name: ray_bro
Date: January 17, 2004 at 17:45:13 Pacific
Reply:

Just a test of my understanding of this.

,font size=”3”><how to's


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Response Number 25
Name: ray_bro
Date: January 17, 2004 at 17:50:40 Pacific
Reply:

Last try

font size=”3”><”target=”_blank”><how to's>


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Response Number 26
Name: ray_bro
Date: January 17, 2004 at 17:58:54 Pacific
Reply:

I've been struggling with this thing for a while now. Lets see if I've got it.

<This is a test


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Response Number 27
Name: ray_bro
Date: January 17, 2004 at 18:02:18 Pacific
Reply:

Almost there. Last effort...

Test


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Response Number 28
Name: CK
Date: January 17, 2004 at 18:04:51 Pacific
Reply:

Hey, Imp.
The first one is rather easy, the second is fairly easy but complicated. Let me just add that if you ever want to see what someone did, then right click and choose "View Source". Mind you, you have to muddle your way through the entire format of the page but it is there.

"<" and ">" are reversed

1)To change font size, color, style etc.

>font size="5"<IMP>/font<
IMP

Ergo the /font with less than or greater than halts the font command.

2)Every letter must be given a color code which is then termeinated with the /font command.
>font color="red"<IMP>/font<
IMP

There are standard colors in plain english which include:
aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, lime, maroongray, purple etc.
Other colors are coded such as seen here:
COLORS

It get much clearer after you try and then go the tutorials to get down the basics.

Test it out here:

FuzzPad HTML Tester

Hope this helps.....ck



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Response Number 29
Name: ray_bro
Date: January 17, 2004 at 18:05:39 Pacific
Reply:

That is something that has frustrated me for a long time now. Everytime I thought I understood it... Oh Well... As always, pain (frustration) is our best teacher.

Thanks to all who contributed to my understanding

Regards - Ray


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Response Number 30
Name: The Count
Date: January 17, 2004 at 19:57:39 Pacific
Reply:

Hi jboy, Imp, mmmmmmm, goole, trvlr, Phil, Bryan, CK, Ray, hello everyone

Let's do this once more :-)
All in one single line.

<a href="http://www.website.com" target="blank"><font size=5 color=orange>http://www.website.com</font></a>

Best Regards,
The Count


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Response Number 31
Name: ray_bro
Date: January 17, 2004 at 22:04:03 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks Count... Tested it out on FuzzPad (thanks CK) and all works as advertised.

I have the "format" in a word document I can copy/paste then fill in the URL and name for the link. Piece o' cake... <grin> I'm a happy camper...

Ray


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Response Number 32
Name: SkipCox
Date: January 18, 2004 at 00:20:03 Pacific
Reply:


Hi folks,

Man, this thread took off like a rocket. I taught myself html with a free tutor called pagetutor. It starts you from square one.

Like The Count shows above, if the code is correct ("all on one line", spaces when they are required, quotes in proper place, etc.) it'll all work.

Additional help with html, tables, and frames is all over the internet and will be useful when a basic understanding of html sinks in.

You can all be posting links and graphics here by tomorrow with a couple hours careful practice.

Also, The Count's son can answer the more difficult questions.

Skip


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Response Number 33
Name: Imp
Date: January 18, 2004 at 01:41:46 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks for all infos, the subject is really interisting and we learn a lot in fact about HTLM procedure..... :)))))


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Response Number 34
Name: Imp
Date: January 18, 2004 at 01:52:38 Pacific
Reply:

Thank you to CK for this very useful program Fuzz Pad HTML Tester which is the best way to understand wha your do


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Response Number 35
Name: The Count
Date: January 18, 2004 at 08:39:30 Pacific
Reply:

Hi jboy, Imp, mmmmmmm, goole, trvlr, Phil, Bryan, CK, Ray, Skip hello everyone

You're all very welcome, glad to see you are getting the hang of it. :-)

Thanks CK for the useful direction to the playground, it's a very nice way to test your HTML-code prior to making the actual post. :-)

Skip you taught yourself well!
And thanks for referring to my son, this gives me the opportunity to promote his Website building site a little bit. :-)
(http://www.scriptzine.nl)

Momentarily the site is only available in Dutch. :-( But within a couple of weeks he'll be having a English version of the site online, so make sure to check regularly.
The site also carries a forum, where one can post and answer HTML, PHP, MySql, Javascript, CSS related questions. The forum already does have a English section. :-)
(http://forum.scriptzine.nl)

On behalf of Wmikke, Webmaster of well take a look at his portfolio :-) thank you in advance for paying a visit.
(http://portfolio.scriptzine.nl)

Best Regards and Wishes,
The Count, Co-webmaster of mesich.com


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Response Number 36
Name: raincheck
Date: January 21, 2004 at 17:29:42 Pacific
Reply:

link name


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Response Number 37
Name: raincheck
Date: January 21, 2004 at 17:34:21 Pacific
Reply:

google


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Response Number 38
Name: raincheck
Date: January 21, 2004 at 17:36:08 Pacific
Reply:

I'll try again:

google


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Response Number 39
Name: raincheck
Date: January 21, 2004 at 17:40:58 Pacific
Reply:

Bron’s colored link


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Response Number 40
Name: raincheck
Date: January 21, 2004 at 17:42:57 Pacific
Reply:

Try again!


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Response Number 41
Name: raincheck
Date: January 21, 2004 at 17:45:10 Pacific
Reply:

Try another


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Response Number 42
Name: raincheck
Date: January 21, 2004 at 17:49:15 Pacific
Reply:

rain’s green link


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Response Number 43
Name: Imp
Date: January 21, 2004 at 20:55:17 Pacific
Reply:

interisting subject... I never thought a small post could be as much interisting...we are at the 43 reply's with mine .... loool


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Response Number 44
Name: Imp
Date: January 23, 2004 at 00:04:55 Pacific
Reply:

Message to CK,
Hello CK, I tried to make a multicolor word and it don't match >font size="4" color="blue">I<color="green">m<color="red">p
What is wrong in the command ? I just got one letter in color, the rest stay black ?
Thanks for info


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Response Number 45
Name: CK
Date: January 23, 2004 at 05:23:23 Pacific
Reply:

Sorry, I missed your post.
Response #28:

"Ergo the /font with less than or greater than halts the font command."

(font color="red")I(/font)
(font color="blue")M(/font)
(font color="green")P(/font)

IMP

****************THANKS.....FOR.....LOOKING*****************

...................ck



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