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How to post articles on FR like a pro(vanity)
12/31/2010 | Delacon

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!


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1 posted on 12/31/2010 8:09:59 AM PST by Delacon
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To: Delacon

Paragraphs are helpful too ;)


2 posted on 12/31/2010 8:10:58 AM PST by PghBaldy (Like the Ft Hood Killer, James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed MLK Jr.)
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To: Delacon

Poster FAIL!


3 posted on 12/31/2010 8:12:38 AM PST by jaydubya2
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To: PghBaldy

> Paragraphs are helpful too ;)

ROFLOLOLOL!!!

My first thought.

Looks like our poster needs a better text2html app.
:)


4 posted on 12/31/2010 8:13:50 AM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Delacon
Try it tomorrow morning with a hangover...

Don't worry..eh?

5 posted on 12/31/2010 8:13:59 AM PST by ken5050 (I don't need sex.....the government screws me every day..)
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To: Delacon
This is as good a thread to ask as any other: I've noticed an epidemic of people failing to place a space between the last letter of a word and the beginning of a parenthetical comment. Is this usage in one of the new style books?
6 posted on 12/31/2010 8:13:59 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Delacon

BUMP


7 posted on 12/31/2010 8:14:30 AM PST by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: Delacon

or just use firefox.. highlight the text, right click and choose ‘view selection source’


8 posted on 12/31/2010 8:15:06 AM PST by mnehring
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To: Delacon

... or, you could just “View Source” on the linked page, copy and paste it.


9 posted on 12/31/2010 8:15:51 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Delacon
Already posted here.
10 posted on 12/31/2010 8:16:08 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Pablo lives jubtabulously!)
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To: PghBaldy; Delacon

“Paragraphs are helpful too ;)”

So is spell check. LOL!


11 posted on 12/31/2010 8:16:25 AM PST by maggief
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12 posted on 12/31/2010 8:16:35 AM PST by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: Delacon

And don’t dare excerpt too much, or people will piss and moan about having to click the link.


13 posted on 12/31/2010 8:17:12 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Delacon

See what happens when you forget to < p > first?


14 posted on 12/31/2010 8:18:07 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Delacon
Don't ever make eye contact with people while you are eating Raisinettes.

It can be very dangerous.

If the raisins are coverd with carob, then it's OK.

15 posted on 12/31/2010 8:18:14 AM PST by Allegra (You're a towel.)
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To: PghBaldy

There’s just some immutable law of the internet, lol. Post an article on how to post articles like a “pro,” blow the formatting. Call somebody stupid, make a stupid spelling error in doing so.


16 posted on 12/31/2010 8:20:12 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: ErnBatavia

What the heck is that thing supposed to be, an origami duck?


17 posted on 12/31/2010 8:21:32 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Delacon


click pic

18 posted on 12/31/2010 8:21:41 AM PST by WSGilcrest (Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus ad erit.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Yes.

The stylebook is from the “For Dummies” series and is called “Dont Nevre Lern to Reed er Rite.”


19 posted on 12/31/2010 8:21:41 AM PST by dblup
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To: Delacon

While we’re on the subject of how to post, how do you skip a space after putting something in italics?

When I italicize something, what comes next always posts in the same area the italicized part, even if I leave a blank line in my typed reply.

Hope what I’m asking makes sense...


20 posted on 12/31/2010 8:23:38 AM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern, you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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