A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....12-28-05....Hall of Fame #14

Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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We're THREE AND A HALF years old now! Still having fun. We hope you are. As promised, for your information and perusal, here is our fourteenth "Hall of Fame" - a list of all our threads from the very beginning ... from Monday, June 24, 2002, through yesterday, December 27, 2005.

"Getting to Know You"

Previous Hall of Fame Threads

09-23-02 .................................. HALL OF FAME #1
12-31-02 .................................. HALL OF FAME #2
03-24-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #3
06-25-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #4
09-30-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #5
12-30-03 .................................. HALL OF FAME #6
03-23-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #7
06-29-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #8
09-28-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #9
12-29-04 .................................. HALL OF FAME #10
03-29-05 .................................. HALL OF FAME #11
06-28-05 .................................. HALL OF FAME #12
09-27-05 .................................. HALL OF FAME #13

September 2005, October 2005

09-28-05 .......................POETRY & POTPOURRI AT THE FINEST
09-29-05 .....................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
09-30 THRU 10-02-05 ...............................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-03-05 .......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-04-05 ........WELCOME ~ ANOTHER FASCINATING QUESTION
10-05-05.............................MOVING STORIES FROM FREEPERS
10-06-05 .....................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
10-07,08,09-05 ........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-10-05 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-11-05 ...........................THINGS YOU LEARN IN THE MOVIES
10-12-05..................................DOGGIE TAILS:WHY DOGS BITE!
10-13-05 ....................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
10-14,15,16-05 .........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-17-05 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-18-05 ........................POETRY & POTPOURRI AT THE FINEST
10-19-05 ......................................................NORTH TO ALASKA
10-20-05 ...........................................NORTH TO ALASKA, cont/d
10-21,22,23-05 ........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
10-24-05 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
10-25-05 ...................PIPPIN'S THOUGHTS ~ "GHOST STORIES"
10-26-05 ........................................GREEN IS GREEN IS GREEN
10-27-05 ................................................WHY GOD MADE PETS
10-28,29,30-05 .............................................HALLOWEEN 2005
10-31-05 .....................................................MILITARY MONDAY

November 2005

11-01-05 ...........................................ALOHA! BACK TO HAWAII
11-02-05.................................ALOHA! BACK TO HAWAII, cont'd
11-03-05...........SQUIRREL TAILS (CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG?)
11-04,05,06-05 .........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
11-07-05 .......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
11-08-05 ............................A "LEFT" FANTASY ~ KERRY WON!
11-09-05 ...................A "LEFT" FANTASY ~ KERRY WON! cont'd
11-10-05 ......................................SMITHSONIAN BLING BLINGS
11-11,12,13-05 ........VETERAN'S DAY ~ HONORING VETERANS
11-14-05 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
11-15-05 ............................................................OH, MY EYES!
11-16-05 ...................................................OH, MY EYES! cont'd
11-17-05 ..................THANKSGIVING COUNTDOWN ~ T MINUS 7
11-18,19,20-05 .........................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
11-21-05 ......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
011-22-05 ........................................................GIVING THANKS
11-23-05 .......................................ANIMALS ARE PEOPLE TOO!
11-24 THRU 11-27-05.............THANKSGIVING IS GIVING THANKS
11-28-05 .......................................................MILITARY MONDAY
11-29-05 ..........................................LET THE HOLIDAYS BEGIN
11-30-05 ...............................LET THE HOLIDAYS BEGIN cont'd

December 2005

12-01-05.....................................................CELEBRATE LIVING
12-02,03,04-05.......................................T.G.I.F. AT THE FINEST
12-05-05.....................................................MILITARY MONDAY
12-06-05.........................FINEST CHRISTMAS TABLES, PART I
12-07-05.........................................CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK
12-08-05 ..................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
12-09,10,11-05 ...EAST - WEST, FREEPERS DECORATE BEST
12-12-05....................................................MILITARY MONDAY
12-13-05 ......................FINEST CHRISTMAS TABLES, PART II
12-14-05.............FINEST CHRISTMAS TABLES, PART II, cont'd
12-15-05...................................................JOHNHUANG ESSAY
12-16,17,18-05 ................................CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART
12-19-05........ .............................................MILITARY MONDAY
12-20-05 .....................CHRISTMAS POETRY AND POTPOURRI
12-21-05 ...........................SILENT NIGHT ~ CHRISTMAS MUSIC
12-22-05 .............................IT'S A FURRY FINEST CHRISTMAS
12-23,24,25-26-05 ..........................HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
12-27-05 ....................................................MILITARY TUESDAY

We're Here Because of You.

09-27-05 ~ Hall of Fame #13

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Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[Aquamarine]

Yea! MEG!

[Billie]

:) You're a sweetie. :) See, when you really want to learn to do these tables and different colored text and stuff, there are many sites you can google to find what you want. The font color I gave you the example for is found at *this site*:

Html Text Colors by Number

You can google (Web, not Image) for Background graphics. But most background images you find don't want you to link to them - you are asked to upload them to your own server. A lot of freepers use the free server TinyPics and also PhotoBucket to upload their graphics. There are some that won't let you link to their server - I think Yahoo is one that *doesn't* allow it - also AngelFire, geocities, and a host of others you can't link to.

[Billie]

How 'bout that! We're gonna get her fixed up, too! Yay!!!

[MEG33]

;)

My family keeps knocking on the door to see if I am alive. They cannot imagine what is keeping me so busy in here..I'm learning how to post and to frame graphics!

Now I must fold laundry and tend to other matters! Life intervenes!

[MEG33]

I know about those like angelfire and tripod. I fear I have been negligent and have not set up my own photobucket site..I found one picture that "disappeared" later. One step at a time.

[MEG33]

I've been using Google Image..Are they going to come for me?

[Billie]

Yes, google image is good for searching for graphics. But Google *Web* will get you web pages for specific things.

[Billie]

Oh! DUH! I'm sorry - I just didn't read your message right! LOL! Maybe they won't come get you! :)

[dutchess]

Wow...Meg...a quicky lesson and voila!!!! Great job teaching sweet sistah. Cutting those instructions again for me too!

Meg...keep at it. I've not been able to take the time to really practice and billie is right there to bail me out. This time aqua is helping me with the New Years weekend thread which I really must get back to!!!! (thanks aqua! Mr. D. thanks you too! (I'm sure Mr. B. does too right billie????)

[Billie]

LOL! I love you, sistahs! You're in good hands with Aqua, you know that! And I know that!

[Aquamarine]

Now I must fold laundry and tend to other matters! Life intervenes!

LOL, it's the same way here.

Really though, congratulations.

[Aquamarine]

Thanks you two, designing Posts is what I enjoy doing most.

[WVNan]

Billie, it's so easy to copy your code and paste it. Now if only I could learn the codes for myself. You must be a good teacher because so many have learned from you. I'm dense.

[Billie]

Hey, look at you! :)

What the others have learned to do is *substitute* the urls and play with the *cellpadding* and *width* numbers. The basics are there - all the things *inside* the html codes can be finessed. You can change background images, background colors, the background *frame* widths, the font colors and sizes, etc. This same table that you and Meg posted could look like this with just the numbers changed in those two background images.

A whole bunch of text can go here.

[Billie]

<table background="http://d21c.com/billie/backgrounds/goldribbon.jpg" cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 border=12>
<tr><td><center>
<table background="http://d21c.com/billie/backgrounds/browngradientpatternbg.jpg" cellpadding=20>

If you look at the first one I posted and compare it to this one, you will see that I changed the numbers of the cellpaddings in both tables, and the border in the first table. That is all. It made the 'frame' wider. :)

[MEG33]

I used the old freepmail you sent to me long ago to learn to post graphics. I just used Billie's tables posts, substituted the jpg, adjusted size and color. I did not want to use her link to Billie ribbon addresses without asking first..but all I had to do was ask.

I asked her to create more space around my partridge and she did the lovely framing,too.

I copied and stored framed codes I have done in order to have one handy to make subs in. That way I don't have to type every bit of code every time. I really do not like to type. "Tomorrow" finally came and Scarlett was ready to think about it. ;)

[MEG33]

Isn't this fun! I am so glad I said I had questions..New code copied!

[WVNan]

Okay sweetie, we're gaining on it. Now, tell me. What is cell padding and cell spacing? LOL

[Billie]

Now, I added a little bit more color to the frame, with an orange gradient background. :)

A whole bunch of text can go here.

<table background="http://d21c.com/billie/backgrounds/goldribbon.jpg" cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 border=12>
<tr><td><center>
<table background="http://d21c.com/billie/backgrounds/orangeribbon.gif" cellpadding=6>
<tr><td><center>
<table background="http://d21c.com/billie/backgrounds/browngradientpatternbg.jpg" cellpadding=6>
<tr><td><center>
<table bgcolor=white width=400 cellpadding=30 cellspacing=0 border=10>
<tr><td>

[WVNan]

Yeah, now I'm trying to figure out where I can put all that info where I can get to it quickly. I have no web space because I don't know how to use it.