Posted on 03/04/2003 7:15:40 AM PST by I Am Not A Mod
Edited on 03/04/2003 7:24:00 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Did you know that any Free Republic topic can be a sidebar for you? Did you know you can remove any sidebar that you currently have? Did you know you can control how many posts show up in each sidebar, and what order the sidebars show up on your latest posts page?
I have compiled this thread to help make the task of managing your sidebars easier.
The following table shows all the Free Republic topics that are currently configured. For any of them, you can click to topic name to see what the actual topic is, in case the one-word name doesn't make that obvious. For each topic I have included a link that will either add the topic as a sidebar or remove it as a sidebar for your account.
Once you have the sidebars you want chosen, then you can set how many posts for each and what order the sidebars are displayed. The My Subscriptions link brings up a page where you can change these options. For any sidebar, the value you put in the MAX column is the maximum number of articles which will show up in the sidebar. The ORDER column is used to designate the order you want them to appear. The sidebar that has the lowest number will be displayed first-- so the easiest way to set this up is to just go and put a 1 in the ORDER field for the sidebar you want to go on top, then a 2 in the one you want second, and so on. If you give the same ORDER number for two or more sidebars, then whichever one has been most recently posted to will come first.
A little known about feature is the Review page, which can be quite handy after you have set up all your sidebars. Try it out after you have done all the rest.
But why did you put it in Breaking News?
I am sure with a bigger monitor you can make your pages bigger so you can see more per page without scrolling.
I would volunteer for that project.
Evening hours at least.
When you load this page, over on the right hand side you should see some sidebars. Most people have Breaking News, FrontPage, Extended, Editorial, FR, and Announcements.
The table above shows all the different topics you could have as a sidebar. If you click the link in the first column, you get a page that shows you what is currently in that topic. If you click the link in the second column, it adds that topic as a sidebar for you. And if you click the third column, if you had it as a sidebar it removes it.
If there is anything that you don't understand, I will be glad to explain better, but you will have to tell me more about what is confusing you than just "I don't get it". Get what? Or more than "I don't get how to make it work." What work? What is it you are trying to do that you can't get to work? Thanks, AM
Pardon my ignorance, but how does one bookmark a thread such as this? There used to be a "bookmark" in the options but I can't see one now. Many thanks in advance....
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