http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ A place to discuss all kinds of stuff! en Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:48:14 +0000 http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-8966 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:59:37 +0000 CheVolay 8966@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>That was really informative CK, FYI the link really works to a real website,<br /> &quot;It&#39;s true I tell you&quot;</p> <p>Peace </p> <p>Che </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-8965 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:00:55 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 8965@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>Venomrock76: (From HFW lesson) I assume you mean a link to some Web page. The manual format is <blockquote><code>&lt;_A href=&quot;http://somewebsite.com/somewebpage.htm/&quot;&gt;link text&lt;_/a&gt;</code></blockquote><br /> (Note: remove the two underscores that I have inserted to prevent the link from executing.)</p> <p>A common error is not enclosing the href URL in double quotation marks. (All parameter values are enclosed in quotes.) If you do not have any link text, there will be nothing for the user to click on, so, practically speaking, you have to put something there. Beyond that, all I can say is that it has to be correct, so doing anything incorrectly should not be done.</p> <p>After posting, try the link. If it does not work, right-click the message, choose <code>View Source</code> and do <code>[Ctrl-F]</code> and search for something unique in your message so you can jump to your message&#39;s spot in the huge HFW page. Then examine the link to see where you goofed by comparing to a known-good link, which you could write down until you have it memorized. To get a known-good link, practice this in the HFW sandbox <a href="&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;//www.hotforwords.com/html-in-comments/&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;">here</a>. (Note that this is NOT the sandbox for the forum, which, because it uses different software, behaves differently and should not be used to practice for the HFW site.) Also, when you use the WP edit function, you can look at the link that way, too.</p> <p>Either in the lesson comments or the sandbox, you have only five minutes to edit a message. In the sandbox, you can re-edit the same practice msg for those five minutes instead of making a zillion practice msgs if you are not the kind throw your hamburger wrappers and Coke cups out the car window. In the comments, if you can&#39;t get the link to work in the five minutes allotted, then edit the msg and leave nothing but a period (a blank msg). Then you can go practice in the sandbox to work out the bugs and make a second msg with a working link. Practice the View-Source-and-find-your-msg thing until you can do it quickly so that you <em>can</em> fix things quickly and beat the edit timer without breaking a sweat.</p> <p>A simpler way to make a link is to just type the URL only: <blockquote><code><a href="http://somewebsite.com/somewebpage.htm/" rel="nofollow">http://somewebsite.com/somewebpage.htm/</a></code></blockquote><br /> without trying to use the HTML A tag. When WP sees a complete URL (including the <code>http://</code>), it assumes you want the URL to be converted to a link and creates the A tag for you. In that case, you have no opportunity to enter link text; the URL becomes the link text, so it&#39;s not quite as cool. However, there are times when you want the user to actually see the URL so that they know what they are looking at. (Note that by the fact this is in blue here, the forum does this, too, but obviously this fake URL won&#39;t go anywhere.) </p> <p>In case you examine the link using <code>View Source</code> after WordPress creates it, be advised that WordPress will add some additional parameters to the link, so don&#39;t wonder where they came from; you have no control over that.</p> <p>Putting a forward slash at the end of the URL makes the link a bit faster; it is good practice, but not required.</p> <p>So go practice some and pose here any questions that come to mind. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-8964 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:14:44 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 8964@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>With respect to the YT audio, the YT window has a volume adjustment that sometimes gets set to zero. Naturally, it only affects YT. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/forum-technical-operation#post-8840 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:48:34 +0000 Greatest Potential 8840@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>test: <center><font size="50"><font color="blue">TEST</center></font></font> </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-8627 Sun, 24 May 2009 11:51:12 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 8627@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>My audio is still dead for YT only (Window Media Player songs OK, Windows sounds OK, etc.) I reloaded Flash Player, but still no go. The strange thing is that it worked one time in the middle of all this, but then died again. Any ideas? </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/forum-technical-operation#post-7809 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:16:49 +0000 leoNard 7809@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>Good job CampKohler-Sacramento CA: &quot;I have got to let my clay dry into sand; box of grains for me&quot; Thanks for this help and peace out TOO...... </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7353 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:19:30 +0000 CheVolay 7353@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:5Ut0exULcvD3yM:http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/4693/US-Navy-Battleship-2.jpg"></p> <p>Thank you I got it figured out &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7352 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:15:51 +0000 CheVolay 7352@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p><img src="http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ysMnI4ASfH0QjM:http://skyworkministries.org/assets/images/hallelujah.gif"> </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7351 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:55:10 +0000 logischabbaubar 7351@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>First guess: The image that you want to copy is a background image. In this case, &quot;Copy Image&quot; and &quot;Copy Image Location&quot; don't appear in the context menu. Other guess: It's not a normal image but a flash file.</p> <p>&quot;Extras&quot; - &quot;Page Info&quot; - &quot;Media&quot; gives you a list of all media files embedded on a web page with additional informations about them. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7350 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:36:59 +0000 CheVolay 7350@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>I'm off to try something something I'll be back. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7347 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:40:10 +0000 logischabbaubar 7347@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>CampKohler, I've had the problem that Firefox showed a logged-out state on several HFW pages when I've just had logged in several times. It seems to me that Firefox displayed a cached page that had been loaded when I hadn't been logged in because Firefox displayed a logged-in state when I forced to reload the page by holding the SHIFT key and clicking the reload icon.</p> <p>Does your problem still appear after you've cleared the Firefox cache? </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7345 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:29:37 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 7345@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p><strong>Logged in, but looking like it's not.</strong> (Continued from <a href="http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress?replies=17#post-7333"> here </a>.)</p> <p>I was able to duplicate the problem again. I had both a HFW page and a forum page open at the time, and, after logging in, refreshing the forum page showed a logged-in state. Having popped back to the HFW page, it still showed a logged-out state. But refreshing that page now showed a logged-in state. So this problem is not a fluke. M notified. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7343 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:57:54 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 7343@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>Che: First, I posted in the wrong topic, since you are talking about a forum problem, not a WP problem. Nevertheless, here goes. At least in Firefox (which I use), the context menu (right-click) offers, among other options, <code>Copy Image</code> and <code>Copy Image Location</code>. You may be selecting the wrong one.</p> <p><code>Copy Image</code> transfers the graphic (pixels) to the clipboard. At that point, you can paste the image only into something that can accept a picture, like MS Paint. The IMG button opens a dialog box for the purpose of entering the location of the image, not the image itself, e.g. <code><a href="http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-content/uploads/ner-dic.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-content/uploads/ner-dic.jpg</a></code>. The dialog box wants text, not a graphic. Therefore you need to click <code>Copy Image Location</code> instead, which copies the URL of the image and not the image itself. It can then be pasted into a dialog box, such as the one that appears when you click the <code>IMG</code> button.</p> <p>My theory is that you probably just misremembered what you used to click on. If that's not the answer, ask again. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7337 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:00:49 +0000 CheVolay 7337@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>When I use to right click my mouse over an image a list appear, one of the option was 'copy image' this option is still there but the list looks different now.</p> <p>So once I would click on the copy image I then would take it over to the this Forum and click on the IMG box to insert the image, when I click on the Submit Post the image would transfer to the page.</p> <p>Since I had my computer worked on by a technician some things have changed.</p> <p>So I'm not sure if what I need is a plugin or some other application.</p> <p>I'll keep checking my email to do this in real time. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7336 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:44:08 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 7336@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p><strong>Che's copy/paste question</strong></p> <p><blockquote>... I could right click to ‘copy image’ (FF3, PC ) then paste in the IMG HTML as in the HFW Forum section. Now this function does not work. What changed &amp; what must I do to get it to work again?</blockquote></p> <p>I need to understand exactly what you mean by &quot;does not work&quot;? Tell me, step-by-step what you do and what you see that makes you think it is failing. That way I can duplicate your steps and see what I can see. (I will be back late tonight.) </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7333 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:22:31 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 7333@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p><strong>Logged in, but looking like it's not.</strong></p> <p>Today I got into a state where it appeared that I could not log in, but, in fact, I was logged in. Evidently my cookie crumbled, but that's a minor matter; it's what happened when I tried to log in that was a problem. I sent this to M:<blockquote>For some reason, HFW no longer remembered me after being at another PC for a few days. I was reading the Nerdic blog and noticed I was not logged in, so I clicked Log In from the banner menu, entered the data, clicked Remember Me and Log In. I was returned to the top of the Nerdic blog, but there was no reply dialog box and all the comments read, Log In to Reply. So I clicked Log In again and repeated the process two more times, getting identical results. Thus I thought I could not log in at all.</p> <p>I also noticed that if I accidentally typoed the password, I got a pink error msg, so I knew that HFW was recognizing the password as being correct by virtue of being returned to the Nerdic Blog (vs. the receiving the error msg). Opening up a new (second) tab on HFW, I saw that I was logged in after all, because the Log Out item (vs. Log In) appeared in the banner menu. In that tab, I logged out and tried to duplicate the problem of returning to the original page still showing me being logged out, but I could not; after logging in, I was returned to the Nerdic blog in the logged-in state as it should be.</blockquote><br /> If any of you are going to be logging in manually in the near future, you might try it from a blog page to see if you can duplicate the problem. If you do, please report it; if not, we can consider it a fluke.</p> <p>Using FF 3.0.7. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7315 Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:09:17 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 7315@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p><strong>Blockquote</strong></p> <p>Today the blockquote tag was observed to operate as it originally did. It is automatically bolded, but if the text is enclosed by &lt;_/b&gt; and &lt;_b&gt; tags, the text is not bolded, so we have regained control. Personally, I see no reason whatsoever for quoted material to be bolded. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7179 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:27:54 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 7179@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>In the past, the blockquote tag normally produces a bold text. Months ago, I could disable the bold by including an unbold tag inside the blockquote tag. Last week that did not work, no matter how I tried it; it was bold and that was that. This morning I was surprised to find that blockquote no longer produced bold text (which is how I prefer it). I notice that the bold behaviour is still working on previous lessons. I would have thought that any changes would be global and would show up on all lessons.</p> <p>Things keep changing around. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7102 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:23:22 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 7102@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>Scratch that last item. I don't know what I was (not) thinking. The highest page <em>is</em> always the last page. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-7089 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:39:57 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 7089@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>The whole paging thing is a PIA, but here we are. By requiring the page number, WP doesn't have to do the math to figure out which page to deliver.</p> <p>New question: How can the user, from any page (other that the highest) go to the highest page? I have seen some sites with paging that have in addition to the <code>Next</code> button, a <code>Last</code> button. That would be handy. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-6725 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:27:28 +0000 Captain Jack 6725@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>CampKohler, that's a pain in the A$$! You think programmers could make this easier and not so time consuming now days. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-6718 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:13:17 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 6718@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>A. INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LINKS (Underscores have been inserted in examples to prevent execution.)</p> <p>1. If http:// is included in an anchor tag, WP knows the link is an external link. The tag will contain the URL as it was typed, e.g. &lt;_a href=&quot;www.wordcount.org/main.php&quot;&gt;amazing thing&lt;_/a&gt; works as intended.</p> <p>2. If an anchor tag omits http://, then WP assumes that the link is an internal link to whichever page on which the link appears. For example, &lt;_a href=&quot;#comment-111893&quot;&gt;here&lt;/_a&gt;, if entered on comment page 1 of the Elope lesson, becomes &lt;_a href=&quot;http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/02/19/elope/comment-page-1/#-111893&quot;&gt;here&lt;/_a&gt;. Thus, to link to a comment on the same page, only the comment number is required; WP will temporarily prefix all the rest whenever the link is used or mousedover.</p> <p>B. LINKING TO COMMENTS IN A PAGED ENVIRONMENT</p> <p>1. The URL must include the page number of the target comment, e.g. comment-page-N, where N is the page number (but see exception in 2, below). If the page number is omitted from the tag, the user will link to the top of the highest-numbered page (typically the video thumbnail) and not to the target comment. For example, &lt;_a href=&quot;http://www.hotforwords.com/20090/02/19/elope/#comment-111893&quot;&gt;here&lt;/_a&gt; leads only to top of the last page of the Elope lesson, but &lt;_a href=&quot;http://www.hotforwords.com/20090/02/19/elope/comment-page-1/#comment-111893&quot;&gt;here&lt;/_a&gt; leads to the target comment.</p> <p>2. An exception exists if the link does not lead off-page. If the target comment appears on the same page as the anchor tag, the page number is not required and the target will appear on screen as desired even though the finished anchor tag does not contain the page number parameter. Thus, if the anchor tag appears on page 1 of the Elope lesson, entering either &lt;_a href=&quot;#comment-111893&quot;&gt;here&lt;/_a&gt; or &lt;_a href=&quot;http://www.hotforwords.com/20090/02/19/elope/#comment-111893&quot;&gt;here&lt;/_a&gt; will produce the following successful tag: &lt;_a href=&quot;http://www.hotforwords.com/20090/02/19/elope/comment-page-1/#comment-111893&quot;&gt;here&lt;/_a&gt;. </p> <p>3. Linking to a page that does not contain the target comment fails just as omitting the page number parameter does (see A1, above). Thus blog file name, page number and comment number must match. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/forum-technical-operation#post-6717 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:46:50 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 6717@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/forum-technical-operation#post-5751 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:54:51 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 5751@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>Che Volet: HFW is hosted by an outfit in Florida, so I doubt that she bought a box* and shipped it there. Probably HFW is just a slice of time on one machine, with all the other slices being other sites they are hosting on the same machine.</p> <p>If you obtain a DOS prompt (for Windows XP: <code>Start | All Programs | Accessories | Command Prompt </code>), type <code>tracert hotforwords.com [Enter]</code>, you will see your tickle flying across the country and winding up at something called HOSTDIME. Now Google them and you will see what's what. I suspect that the guy M used to design HFW hooked her up with them. If not him, whoever her ghost Webmaster is did.</p> <p>BTW, notice that the end of the tracert says <code>quad.hotforwords.com</code>. Does that mean that there are four sites on the server HFW is assigned to? I would like to know if my guess is right, but M (or somebody advising her) is unlikely to reveal.** </p> <p>--- ---<br /> *If M did provide the hardware, imagine the problems of getting the host staff to be familiar with it well enough to do repairs, have the correct parts on hand and so forth. It would be a logistical nightmare if every Tom, Dick and Harry customer had it's own unique hardware. No, they probably have standardized, very compact servers that can be swapped out logically (vs. physically). The bigger the hosting outfit, the more likely this is to be so. This is not to say that you can't do it; you can get anything you want if you are willing to pay, but it would be prohibitively costly and the reliability would not be as great.</p> <p>**He/she has this &quot;Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain&quot; mentality, which IMHO, is silly. We can't all be Webmasters and networking gurus, so I think it quite obvious that M has &quot;people.&quot; I can't imagine what the advantage would be in not having users correspond directly with a Webmaster or other staff. Maybe when M writes her memoirs someday, she will tell us why she thought the secrecy to be necessary. {<em>CK reads the answer on his deathbed and, with his last breath, croaks out &quot;Yesss! I </em>knew<em> it! Gaaaack!</em>} </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/forum-technical-operation#post-5750 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:19:34 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 5750@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>Transferred from John's <a href="http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/02/01/blitz/#comment-107916">Blitz lesson comment</a>. (Underlines inserted in entities to prevent execution; they are deleted in actual use.)</p> <p>The standard IBM PC keyboard provides the APL quote, which is represented in HTML by entity &amp;_#34; (appearing as &quot;). There also exists the curly (left and right) quotes one sees in the print media, namely &amp;_#8220 and &amp;_#8221;, appearing as &#8220; and &#8221;, respectively.</p> <p>Of these three, you are using the last one, but your keyboard should be generating only the first one. I am very interested exactly which keystrokes you are using to get your quote marks. Ditto Capman. </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/forum-technical-operation#post-5587 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:11:38 +0000 CheVolay 5587@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>Marina do you own the servers/hard drive that all this info is stored or are you renting server space from a large company? </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/forum-technical-operation#post-4520 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:12:57 +0000 Greatest Potential 4520@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <blockquote><p><strong>&gt;&lt;</strong><center><img src="http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:TBcDhxH_vSniRM:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/Color_block.png"></center><strong>&gt;&lt;</strong></p></blockquote> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/forum-technical-operation#post-4501 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:50:28 +0000 Me Lika Do The Cha Cha 4501@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>I get it. Those were old bugs from the initial setup.<br /> @CK - thanks for the helpful tidbits &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/bb-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_lol.gif&quot; title=&quot;:lol:&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-3831 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:24:31 +0000 popzzz 3831@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p><font color="blue"><strong>Uh well yeah for Internet EXploder I guess .....<br /> So people still use it huh ..... go figger ..... </strong></font> </p> http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/topic/hfw-website-technical-operation-wordpress#post-3826 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:46:20 +0000 Camp Kohler - Sacramento CA 3826@http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/ <p>You're right. I never noticed <code>Copy Shortcut</code> (in IE7) before, probably because I've never right-clicked a link. Thanks. </p>