A Few Handy Tips for Free Republic Users

various FR posts | 10-22-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[backhoe]

The old posts are locked out from bumping, so here is some new information along with some old, and newer links as well.

Subhead: ( things I wish somebody had mentioned to me... )

1- The Two Browser Trick. Minimize the browser you're running, click on your desktop browser icon and a new one pops up. This is handy for finding web addresses you need, referring to another site for info or an addy, etc.
If you are running IE, a simple ^N [ control-N ] will pop it up )

Say you want to make a link to an article you've seen on this board or elsewhere- pop up the second browser, go there, and when you get to the desired place, the web addess will be in the ribbon window that shows web addresses. Point to it, hilite, and hit control-C to store it in your clipboard for use elsewhere. This brings us to a related area:

2- Keep a file of frequently-used data ( like HTML codes ) stored as a wordpad or notepad file on your desktop for handy cutting & pasting, Example- you want to make a link with an addy you have from #2? Store this line:

<a href="">link</a>

You cut & paste that line to your post, get the addy, point right between the quotes ( "|" ) and hit Control-V to paste the addy where it belongs. That "link" can remain or you can replace it with a more descriptive name for the link.

Same trick works for pictures you want to display- the basic code is:

<IMG src="">

You stick the web addy of the picture you want between the quotes- like this one:

http://home.earthlink.net/~joebrower/BUMP/BSMETER.GIF

3-Make the process of tagging a file or article you want to post easier on yourself- get an HTML editor. I use FastHTML-- download a copy to try here:

-Link--

but there are many others as well, keep trying 'til you find one you like. You cut & paste the article to the editor's page, tag it ( adding links if needed )- save it! Just in case! And cut & paste to the posting area.

4- There's a lazy way the "learn" ( i. e., copy ) HTML you have seen that you want to use or think is a neat effect:

With Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0+ you can easily download and install a few cool tools, such as "View Partial Source." Web Developer's Accessories allows this, and can be found here:

View Partial Source

A little more info--

Help with Posting

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A couple of other useful tricks:

1- How do I copy eletters/emails without reformatting into HTML?

The computer, obviously, can "see" the tags- how can you? In Outlook Express, hit "forward" and a window with "source" will appear at the bottom. You can copy & paste from there. If you are plagued with "greater than" symbols clogging the page, use the find & replace function of another program to fix it.

2- How do I copy links & titles to an email?

While you are on this board ( or any other ) open a "new mail" window in Outlook Express. Hilite, copy, and paste the web address from your browser box to the new email, copy the title or any other information you desire, and your email will have a link. If you later wish to use the HTML embedded in the email for posting here, the "source" tab in the email will call it up for copy & pasting.

Links to useful software:

-Several HTML Editors--

A replacement for Wordpad/Notepad:

Cetus Freeware Products
... Click HERE to find out about CNotePad, or download it by clicking HERE. Click
HERE to find out about CWordPad, or download it by clicking HERE. ...

[Johnny Shear]

That's what I neglected to explain with "type it in a notepad file"--

You explained it just fine...I just don't use a notepad and don't want too...I like the board where I can remember that stuff...Oh well...I'll figure-out a system....

As for the Google pictures, I go to the source after finding them on Google...A while back, I used the google pic and they worked...Then, all of the sudden, those pics I had used were red x's...So I started clicking all the way through to the original page and all is fine...I assumed google changed the pics every once in a while...Maybe your explanation went into effect between the time I originally used them and when they went bad....

Anyway......Thanks for your help. And please, how do I do URLs? (Without the naming part...That REALLY confuses me!)

[backhoe]

Johnny, I'm not clear about what you mean regarding URL's... perhaps you could re-word it & I'll get it, but no rush- I have to sign off in a few minutes; back in the AM.

[Johnny Shear]

Posting a link to something...On other boards I just type [URL]Copy and paste an url to something[/URL]

And some really cool board do it automatically...And even allow you to name the link automatically.

[M Kehoe]

I'm ignoring this thread. Plus, because I'm not logged on, I won't be able to post a reply anyway.

5.56mm

[backhoe]

OK... just save this line for later copy & pasting:

<a href="">link</a>

...when you find a web address you want to link, stick the addy between the "" marks, replace that "link" with whatever you want for a title ( or re-copy the addy, or copy something from the page- which is what I usually do... ) and viola!-- you have a link.

That's where the "two-browser trick" comes in handy-- you "keep your place" here with the first one, and use the other one to go to the other address you want to link...

[backhoe]

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[backhoe]

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Reference HTML Cheatsheet
WebMonkey ^ | 9.26/2002 | N/A

 

[DainBramage]

I can't beleive you would have a thread running, without some links to

"the dark side" of the Clintons and their crimes on our country!

Repent Backhoe, Repent!

[backhoe]

Hullo, Dain... well, shoot, I have to rest up sometimes from my role of Hectoring, Hammering, and Hounding the clintons and all their enablers into silence...
( I know that's not a precise quote... it was "harried" and dam' if I could figure if the spelling in the proper tense was "harrying" or what... the dog got me up at 3 this morning to tree a 'possum and I'm about ready to quit! )

[DainBramage]

Don't quit! Harried is perfectly understandable to me, and thats all I ever require.

Take a break Man! Want me to rub your shoulders?.... You sissy!

I got up at 3:30 to see honeybear off to the airport and I'm not crying.

I am however gonna go drink a brewski and hit the sack at 8:30 my time.

I'm gonna get some lipstick and put it on the pillow for a conversation starter

for when the little one returns.

[backhoe]

We seem to be in similar circumstances- Emily spent last night ( and tonight ) at her workplace ( a conference center, extra guests, boss away, she's #2, someone has to be on duty ) so I am left with a morose "hunting dog." Taffy gets in her momma's place on the bed, points herself towards the door, and makes mournful, sotto voce' sounds...
...and goes to the gate at 5, when Em usually comes home, and looks accusingly at me, like, "You big ape, you forgot to fetch my Mother! I'm not forgetting this..."

[shetlan]

Thanks for this, Kind Genius.

[DainBramage]

LOL

[VOA]

Ping...this thread might be of interest...

[backhoe]

Thanks for the kind words.

[backhoe]

This marks the third night in a row we have "had to go!" out at 3 to hunt that damned 'possum.

If only the critter would come inside the fence where I could whack him with my shovel...

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In your honor, here's an old file titled "GhostLegacy"--

Like the chains on Marley's Ghost

That "clinton legacy" has been forged link by link by sordid link....

Madison Society - Slick Willy
... THE CLINTON TIME LINE. The Etherzone provides, in one location, all the events
of the Clinton Ongoing Corruption from 1977 through 2000. Read more. ...

CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY:
... And that gets to my second chart, Mr. Speaker, which is the time line.....Up until
1993, Mr. Speaker, under Democrats and Republican Presidents alike, there ...

The Cost of Life (Clinton/Gore Sellout of Security for Campaign Contributions) **FR EXCLUSIVE** #2

-DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON --

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"Has that clinton "legacy" made you feel safer yet?"
Lest Americans ever forget why the clintons, and all their enablers need to be hectored, hounded, and harried into silence, until "clintonese is only spoken in Hell," look here:

The Holiday *Best* of Bill Clinton & his Friends!

Hodgepodge O' Hillary

-clintonism in one easy lesson--

-"until clintonese is spoken only in Hell!"--

Hillary! and Arafat's wife-

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[DainBramage]

Finally some links to filth!

[backhoe]

Rats! Can't get the "We aim to please" graphic to come through.

[Musket]

So anyway......I still can't post links or pictures here...It's just SO WEIRD!!! (I've NEVER been to a board where you have to put a "P" surrounded by <> just to make a new paragraph!! My request is this...

Please tell me how to post pics and links...And please do it this way....

Put all those wierd commands (http///.href<>blahblah) on the front and end of the example and then type "PUT THE LINK OF THE URL OR THE PICTURE RIGHT HERE" (But exclude the "'s otherwise I'll think I have to add them too). Maybe by doing that, I'll learn how to do it.

And please don't confuse me by adding that thing where you get to name the link anything you want...That just just makes things worse.

To me all the other web based boards are weird. This one allows you to post HTML code which gives the users MUCH more flexibility than all the other "dumbed down" boards. So you have to learn a little basic HTML but it's not that tough. Spend an eveining or 2 at Hotwired's Webmonkey , print out the "Cheat Sheet" and keep it by your computer and that's all you'll need to do.

Please, please, please don't encourage them to dumb this board down or we'll all miss soooo much cool, weird, wacky, wonderfull stuff and it will suck! Better for YOU to dumb yourself UP a little!

btw, It's nice to see other's singing the praise of Webmonkey. I've been doing that for years. It's a GREAT site(even though they are a bunch of lefties).

[GOPJ]

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