Posted on 10/25/2012 7:26:19 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
Clearly I can post and reply to threads, but looking for instruction on other functions. Specifically like posting pictures, quoting, font styles like underline, bold, strikeout, etc.
Is there a FR help section or link I can click on? Thanks!!!
Hey, Cat!
How bout the n00bie with the oh-so-timely nick?
Now that there is a screen name that’ll stay relevant for a long, long time, eh?
(By the way - n00bie, any pleas for restraint from sarcasm are automatically submitted to the committee on unrelenting sarcasm for further review and action. This is part of the Piranha Brothers Unwritten Law. Any further pleas for mercy will result in having your head nailed to the floor.)
It’s HTML code. You have to do it yourself.
Try WebMonkey. Nice little site for basic learning and a cheat sheet.
www.webmonkey.com
Ping
Thanks, I was hoping there was a way besides posting a bookmark post. After all, the place gets bogged down at times and it would be nice to keep those posts to a minimum.
I’ve had good luck with Photobucket.
I haven’t had as good luck avoiding sarcasm. I had to be a “pancake bunny” and a DU troll and a weirdo from Daily Kos for awhile; but that which does not kill you makes you stronger, to quote a Godless nihilist.
Bouncing off the walls here is part of the fun. Sarcasm is the oil that lubricates this place much of the time!
Welcome!
There plenty of web based tutorials for html. Here are a several: http://html.net/ ,http://html.net/tutorials/html/ , or http://htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/
One thing you may already know is that you can copy and paste a link and it will automatically be posted as a clickable link in your post.
However if you add a single HTML tag of your own then the auto feature is turned off, and you must format your entire post with HTML. Even a link. And even paragraph brakes/ line spacing.
Also no images are hosted on FR. They must be hosted off site.
Video and audio embedding are not allowed.
A pre-emptive plea for mercy usually works on gardening forums, etc.
I lurked long enough to know not to try it here and still got the crap beat out of me.
It was great fun! Half the blast here is knowing everyone has a stilletto in their boot, ready to eviscerate you for showing any extra-Constitutional weakness or a dumbass typo.
Like internet seal training or aversion therapy, IMHO.
bump
“Like internet seal training or aversion therapy, IMHO.”
I like to think of it as eternal FR boot camp. LOL
>>No easy way for posting photos and links etc. Gotta do what we all did and learn the html.
But there is. Not perfect, but very easy to use: http://www.blogdesk.org/en/index.htm
Your sign up shows 2010. If your lurking goes back sufficiently you might remember a phenomenon known as the “Crevo Thread.”
It was on one such thread that I cut my teeth (and more than a few teeth were sunk into my tender flesh.)
I figured that was enough of a trial by fire for one lifetime. So the next Crevo Thread that came along I just ridiculed the folks I disagreed with mercilessly. No reasoning whatsoever.
That worked out just fine.
The first rule is, you don't have to use HTML. If your post doesn't contain anything that looks like HTML, then it gets presented pretty much as written. The only major change I'm aware of is that anything that looks like a link gets link-enabled automatically.
However, if your post does have any HTML, then it needs to be proper HTML. E.g., if you include a link, you need to enclose it in an <a> tag, or it won't be live; it will be just text. You also need to insert proper paragraph and newline markers, or your post will end up as a monolithic blob of text.
So, you just need to learn some of the basic HTML markup elements, such as the ones for links, italics, bold face, headings, block quoting, ordered and unordered lists, tables, images, etc. A good place to start is w3schools.com.
One function that trips people up is images. FR doesn't host images. To show an image on FR, it has to be hosted on the web somewhere (other than FR). Once you have a URL, it's pretty simple (usually). You just drop the image URL into an img element. If it's your own photo or whatever, you need to upload it to a hosting service (e.g., PhotoBucket) first, then obtain the URL, and post.
Occasionally, a picture will look just fine until you post it on FR, whereupon it either doesn't show at all or a different image shows. What is happening is, the server from which the image is being fetched is taking umbrage at the fact that the image request is referred from an FR page and is serving up nothing or something else. This phenomenon can be hard to notice as well, since the image is already in your browser cache, so it works when you preview (you get the cached image), but not for anybody else. It's also possible that an image will get taken down, moved, or changed by whoever is hosting it.
One way past the above problems is to rehost an image. That is, to say, to place a copy of it on another server, then post the URL to that copy. There is actually a Firefox extension, Rehost Image, that makes that really simple. You right-click on the image, select Rehost Image, and it will upload the image to a hosting service such as imgur and copy the short URL to the clipboard.
Im really quite surprised that no one has said anything about it. We all know the most common mistake made while posting to FreeRepublic.com is forgetting to Log On.
Happily there is an alternative. Each posts’ number can be clicked on in a thread, and when this is done it reloads the thread right at the post you clicked on (whether it was your post or not).
Once you do this once though, for some reason it won’t refresh the thread again (show new replies) but you can also either just click on another posts’ number and that will refresh the thread again at that post. Also of course you can click on the “last” link in a thread with more than 50 replies (but that won’t take you back to a particular post just the last one on that page)
I click on the post numbers myself on he live threads to avoid loosing my place; it works well.
Tip if using Firefox. To see how someone did a post, select the post with your mouse and then right click and choose “view selection source” . It will show you how someone else coded their post.
I wonder if I can still do it?
I got hooked to FR by the birther controversy prior to the 2008 election, missed the crevo thread.
It was like landing on the Island of Misfit Bellicose Broken Toys Who Are Generally P_ssed About The State Of The Country And Ready To Kick Your Ass.
Loved it ever since.
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