Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/31/2010 8:09:55 AM PST by Delacon
So you've found an article on the interweb you want to post on FR. You have clicked "Post" and put in the title of the article, your topics, your key words, source and source url. Now you come to the "body of thread" section. You want to post the article just as it appears on the website you lifted it from complete with all the links, pics and snazzy fonts. Here is a quick and easy way to do it. You need a text to html converter. WAIT! Don't give up yet. Bear with me. You don't need to download anything and all you have to really know is how to copy and paste. You can do this all online with very little effort. There is an easy online text to html converter at this link: http://knopok.net/text-to-html.html (the best and easiest one out there IMO). Click on the link(or cut and paste the link to the address bar in another window) then save it to your favorite places. Then open it in a seperate window from FR. Next, go to the window with the article that you want to post open in it. If the article has a "print" option or icon, click on that to get rid of all the banners and ads you don't want to show up in your post. Don't worry if it doesn't have one because you are going to copy and paste the article to the html converter and you can touch the article up by deleteing banners and ads once you paste the article to the converter. So take your pointer and start at the beginning of the article, click and drag until you get to the end of the article or wherever you want to stop, highlighting the whole area. Right click on the highlighted area and select "copy". Now go to the html converter window. You will see a big box with all these toolbars that looks much like what you see when you open microsoft word. Don't worry, the only icons on these tool bars that you really need to know are "source" and "new page". The "source" icon is in the upper lefthand corner and conveniently says "source". The "new page" icon is two icons over from the "source" icon and looks like a blank page. Start by clicking on the "new page" icon to clear out all the unnecessary text that the website uselessly added to the big white box below all the toolbar icons. The big white box below all the icons is where you are now going to paste your article. Right click in the big white box and click on the paste option in the drop down box. Your article should appear exactly as it appears in the original article. Now comes the cool part(IMO). Go up to the above mentioned "source" icon and click on it. This will convert the article to html which is what you need to paste in the "body of thread" section of your FR post to get all the bells and whistles. So right click on the converted html text and click on" select all", then right click on the highlighted area and select "copy". Now go to the FR window where your post is and right click on the "body of thread" box and select "paste". Your article should appears as html in the box. Click on preview and then post and you are done. Happy posting and Happy New Year!
Is that all?
I stand guilty of not observing good form and style. I simply did not use paragraphs. Blame me and not the text editor or the website from which it comes. There was no fail. As deks points out, in the articles I have previously posted(the ones where I simply copy the articles of others to the editor) the links, fonts, and yes paragraphs all show up as they should.
Those were the days . . . LOL.
Well, on average per day, but looking at yesterday’s posts it looks like you’re increasing the pace. Thanks for all the effort you’ve put in to posting articles.
You should have < p > ed before we started.
End your italics line with a < p > (no spaces).
Good on ya.
However, do you really want us to miss an end of year chance to
tweak, harrass, cajole, etc. on a favorite excuse for doing so?
Just think, if you weren’t being harrassed, you might be ignored!
At least that’s sometimes what I try and tell myself . . . as the resident
Chief Kook and Brain Cleaner
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Well, at least you didn’t post a
Or a thread.
Man, it’s a tough crowd here today. ; - )
This info is great and I’m bookmarking your post. Thank you.
***What the heck is that thing supposed to be, an origami duck?***
No, that’s the umbrella Zero was trying to get through a gate while Moosele was watching him.
Free Republic is a forum, not a blog.
Yeah, I don’t have that problem either. LOL.
Have a blessed New Year.
Ouch!
Poster FAIL!
I do it all the time, and then I make sure to bold the text too... Sort of how I behave in real life ;)
“You should have < p > ed before we started”.
But I didn’t feel like it then!
Bookmark, me too!
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