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Centerfield Jun 01 2006 12:46 PM

ScarletKnight41 wrote: For the link - star out with [url= Then put in the URL Then ] Then put in the words you want Then [ then / Then url] For images, you go to the tool bar. Click Img, then put the link to the image, ,then click Img again. Good luck! I wanted to start this thread with Scarlet's post so I could reference it quickly. Can anyone tell me how I create a post with pictures along the side the text? (I think I've seen edgy do this a couple of times). If it's too complicated then, feel free to say "stick to the basics CF".

Elster88 Jun 01 2006 12:49 PM

I used a HTML table and just put pictures in the cells where I wanted pictures in. It's messy but it works. [url]http://cybermessageboard.ehost.com/getalife/viewtopic.php?t=3225[/url] If you click on quote you can see the code. Edgy may have neater table formatting. Actually maybe not...I may have stolen this from him in the first place.

Edgy DC Jun 01 2006 12:50 PM

<img src="http://www.rainbownetwork.com/images/custom2/8404.jpg" align="right">Snoopy first made his appearance on the strip on October 4, 1950, two days after the strip premiered, and was identified by name on Nov. 10, 1950. Schulz was originally going to call him "Sniffy" (as described in 25th anniversary book, "Peanuts Jubilee", (pg. 20)), until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. Snoopy was a silent character for the first two years of his existence, but on May 27, 1952 he verbalized his thoughts to readers for the first time via a thought balloon; Schulz would utilize this device for nearly all of the character's appearances in the strip thereafter. In addition to Snoopy's ability to "speak" his thoughts to the reader, many of the human characters in Peanuts have the uncanny knack of reading his thoughts and responding to them. Curiously, the first time a beagle was mentioned, on Dec. 5, 1960, Snoopy denied being one. As Snoopy dozed, Charlie Brown said, "Beagles on the grass, alas." To this, Snoopy replied, "I ain't no stupid beagle." Many of Peanuts' memorable moments come in Snoopy's daydream as a writer: his eternal opener on the typewriter "It was a dark and stormy night..." is taken from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford. The contrast between Snoopy's existence in a dream world and Charlie Brown's in the real world is central to the humour and philosophy of Peanuts (see e.g. Peanuts book title Life's a dream, Charlie Brown). Schulz summed up Snoopy's character in a 1997 interview: "He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he leads kind of a dull, miserable life. I don't envy dogs the lives they have to live."

Edgy DC Jun 01 2006 12:50 PM

Snoopy first made his appearance on the strip on October 4, 1950, two days after the strip premiered, and was identified by name on Nov. 10, 1950. Schulz was originally going to call him "Sniffy" (as described in 25th anniversary book, "Peanuts Jubilee", (pg. 20)), until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. Snoopy was a silent character for the first two years of his existence, but on May 27, 1952 he verbalized his thoughts to readers for the first time via a thought balloon; Schulz would utilize this device for nearly all of the character's appearances in the strip thereafter. In addition to Snoopy's ability to "speak" his thoughts to the reader, many of the human characters in Peanuts have the uncanny knack of reading his thoughts and responding to them. Curiously, the first time a beagle was mentioned, on Dec. 5, 1960, Snoopy denied being one. As Snoopy dozed, Charlie Brown said, "Beagles on the grass, alas." To this, Snoopy replied, "I ain't no stupid beagle." Many of Peanuts' memorable moments come in Snoopy's daydream as a writer: his eternal opener on the typewriter "It was a dark and stormy night..." is taken from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford. The contrast between Snoopy's existence in a dream world and Charlie Brown's in the real world is central to the humour and philosophy of Peanuts (see e.g. Peanuts book title Life's a dream, Charlie Brown). Schulz summed up Snoopy's character in a 1997 interview: "He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he leads kind of a dull, miserable life. I don't envy dogs the lives they have to live."

Edgy DC Jun 01 2006 12:53 PM

Sexy, isn't it? The key is that align="right" tag. Remember to open and close the quotes. They're not necessary anymore to have the tag be read by most browsers, but if you use them, you have to both open and close them. This of course also works with align="left". If you use align="center", the picture will be centered but no text will wrap around it.

Centerfield Jun 01 2006 01:02 PM

Cool. Thanks Edgy. If I want to add captions to those pics, do I have to create a cell like Elster did?

Edgy DC Jun 01 2006 01:23 PM

Yeah do this... <table align="right" width="100"><tr><td><img src="http://www.rainbownetwork.com/images/custom2/8404.jpg"></td></tr><tr><td><font size="1">Snoopy was the shortstop and best hitter on Charlie Brown's baseball team.</td></tr></table>Snoopy first made his appearance on the strip on October 4, 1950, two days after the strip premiered, and was identified by name on Nov. 10, 1950. Schulz was originally going to call him "Sniffy" (as described in 25th anniversary book, "Peanuts Jubilee", (pg. 20)), until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. Snoopy was a silent character for the first two years of his existence, but on May 27, 1952 he verbalized his thoughts to readers for the first time via a thought balloon; Schulz would utilize this device for nearly all of the character's appearances in the strip thereafter. In addition to Snoopy's ability to "speak" his thoughts to the reader, many of the human characters in Peanuts have the uncanny knack of reading his thoughts and responding to them. Curiously, the first time a beagle was mentioned, on Dec. 5, 1960, Snoopy denied being one. As Snoopy dozed, Charlie Brown said, "Beagles on the grass, alas." To this, Snoopy replied, "I ain't no stupid beagle." Many of Peanuts' memorable moments come in Snoopy's daydream as a writer: his eternal opener on the typewriter "It was a dark and stormy night..." is taken from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford. The contrast between Snoopy's existence in a dream world and Charlie Brown's in the real world is central to the humour and philosophy of Peanuts (see e.g. Peanuts book title Life's a dream, Charlie Brown). Schulz summed up Snoopy's character in a 1997 interview: "He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he leads kind of a dull, miserable life. I don't envy dogs the lives they have to live."

Edgy DC Jun 01 2006 01:24 PM

Snoopy was the shortstop and best hitter on Charlie Brown's baseball team. Snoopy first made his appearance on the strip on October 4, 1950, two days after the strip premiered, and was identified by name on Nov. 10, 1950. Schulz was originally going to call him "Sniffy" (as described in 25th anniversary book, "Peanuts Jubilee", (pg. 20)), until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. Snoopy was a silent character for the first two years of his existence, but on May 27, 1952 he verbalized his thoughts to readers for the first time via a thought balloon; Schulz would utilize this device for nearly all of the character's appearances in the strip thereafter. In addition to Snoopy's ability to "speak" his thoughts to the reader, many of the human characters in Peanuts have the uncanny knack of reading his thoughts and responding to them. Curiously, the first time a beagle was mentioned, on Dec. 5, 1960, Snoopy denied being one. As Snoopy dozed, Charlie Brown said, "Beagles on the grass, alas." To this, Snoopy replied, "I ain't no stupid beagle." Many of Peanuts' memorable moments come in Snoopy's daydream as a writer: his eternal opener on the typewriter "It was a dark and stormy night..." is taken from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford. The contrast between Snoopy's existence in a dream world and Charlie Brown's in the real world is central to the humour and philosophy of Peanuts (see e.g. Peanuts book title Life's a dream, Charlie Brown). Schulz summed up Snoopy's character in a 1997 interview: "He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he leads kind of a dull, miserable life. I don't envy dogs the lives they have to live."

Edgy DC Jun 01 2006 01:26 PM

A key here is the width="100" tag, or else the table width will be set by the size of the caption, rather than wrapping the text of the caption. Here it is without that tag. Snoopy was the shortstop and best hitter on Charlie Brown's baseball team. Snoopy first made his appearance on the strip on October 4, 1950, two days after the strip premiered, and was identified by name on Nov. 10, 1950. Schulz was originally going to call him "Sniffy" (as described in 25th anniversary book, "Peanuts Jubilee", (pg. 20)), until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. Snoopy was a silent character for the first two years of his existence, but on May 27, 1952 he verbalized his thoughts to readers for the first time via a thought balloon; Schulz would utilize this device for nearly all of the character's appearances in the strip thereafter. In addition to Snoopy's ability to "speak" his thoughts to the reader, many of the human characters in Peanuts have the uncanny knack of reading his thoughts and responding to them. Curiously, the first time a beagle was mentioned, on Dec. 5, 1960, Snoopy denied being one. As Snoopy dozed, Charlie Brown said, "Beagles on the grass, alas." To this, Snoopy replied, "I ain't no stupid beagle." Many of Peanuts' memorable moments come in Snoopy's daydream as a writer: his eternal opener on the typewriter "It was a dark and stormy night..." is taken from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford. The contrast between Snoopy's existence in a dream world and Charlie Brown's in the real world is central to the humour and philosophy of Peanuts (see e.g. Peanuts book title Life's a dream, Charlie Brown). Schulz summed up Snoopy's character in a 1997 interview: "He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he leads kind of a dull, miserable life. I don't envy dogs the lives they have to live."

Centerfield Jun 01 2006 01:30 PM

Thanks Edge. You rock almost as much as the 2006 Mets.

Edgy DC Jun 01 2006 01:45 PM

No problem. Set the width of the table to whatever the width of the picture is. If you set it lower, it'll stretch to fit the picture, but the text may be truncated.

Willets Point Jul 18 2006 03:19 PM

Useful stuff, not to the archive you will go.

SteveJRogers Jul 18 2006 06:08 PM

I've still having hangups on how to successfully do a table since I did that "Current Mets Ranked By Senority" post last year. I tried several with the Orioles and even the 2006 AL KTE but to no avail Tables and I are not having a good relationship on this board!

SteveJRogers Jul 18 2006 06:10 PM

Elster88 wrote: I used a HTML table and just put pictures in the cells where I wanted pictures in. It's messy but it works. [url]http://cybermessageboard.ehost.com/getalife/viewtopic.php?t=3225[/url] If you click on quote you can see the code. Edgy may have neater table formatting. Actually maybe not...I may have stolen this from him in the first place. The post in the link apparantly got itself zapped

Elster88 Jul 18 2006 07:12 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 14 2006 11:08 AM

SteveJRogers wrote: ="Elster88"]I used a HTML table and just put pictures in the cells where I wanted pictures in. It's messy but it works. [url]http://cybermessageboard.ehost.com/getalife/viewtopic.php?t=3225[/url] If you click on quote you can see the code. Edgy may have neater table formatting. Actually maybe not...I may have stolen this from him in the first place. The post in the link apparantly got itself zapped It's in the KTE archives. I shoulda just pasted the code here, because I don't think there's a way to get at it now.

Johnny Dickshot Jul 19 2006 07:32 AM

Useful thread. A design tip: Always try to place your graphics so they look into the text, not away from it. Snoopy in this case ought to be on the left. *** Snoopy was the shortstop and best hitter on Charlie Brown's baseball team. Snoopy first made his appearance on the strip on October 4, 1950, two days after the strip premiered, and was identified by name on Nov. 10, 1950. Schulz was originally going to call him "Sniffy" (as described in 25th anniversary book, "Peanuts Jubilee", (pg. 20)), until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. Snoopy was a silent character for the first two years of his existence, but on May 27, 1952 he verbalized his thoughts to readers for the first time via a thought balloon; Schulz would utilize this device for nearly all of the character's appearances in the strip thereafter. In addition to Snoopy's ability to "speak" his thoughts to the reader, many of the human characters in Peanuts have the uncanny knack of reading his thoughts and responding to them. Curiously, the first time a beagle was mentioned, on Dec. 5, 1960, Snoopy denied being one. As Snoopy dozed, Charlie Brown said, "Beagles on the grass, alas." To this, Snoopy replied, "I ain't no stupid beagle." Many of Peanuts' memorable moments come in Snoopy's daydream as a writer: his eternal opener on the typewriter "It was a dark and stormy night..." is taken from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford. The contrast between Snoopy's existence in a dream world and Charlie Brown's in the real world is central to the humour and philosophy of Peanuts (see e.g. Peanuts book title Life's a dream, Charlie Brown). Schulz summed up Snoopy's character in a 1997 interview: "He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he leads kind of a dull, miserable life. I don't envy dogs the lives they have to live."

Iubitul Jul 19 2006 07:12 PM

Kase - can you allow <span> tags? This can be done wthout tables...

KC Jul 19 2006 08:27 PM

I haven't been following this discussion, but to answer your question - span is on the activated list of tags along with these: b, i, u, pre, font, s, p, blockquote, tt, a, img, align, table, caption, tr, th, td, div, center, br, span, div, ul, li, ol, strike, hr, sub, sup, ←, ↑, →, ↓, valign, object, embed, param If anyone needs another, it's easy to edit the list.

Iubitul Jul 20 2006 09:51 AM

Can you had style to the list? Thanks.

Yancy Street Gang Jul 20 2006 10:11 AM

I don't know if that would work. FONT doesn't seem to work either, for some reason. This should be Verdana. This should be Courier. This should be Times New Roman.

KC Jul 21 2006 08:26 AM

Courier Hmmm, that's weird, I'm almost certain I've cut and pasted a 'pre' table or two here in courier and it's worked. The list grows of strange shit that doesn't work on this board. Anyways, I added 'style' yesterday morning and forgot to post here. I have my doubts as to whether you can do any fancy 'style' or 'span' stuff here. b, i, u, pre, font, s, p, blockquote, tt, a, img, align, table, caption, tr, th, td, div, center, br, span, div, ul, li, ol, strike, hr, sub, sup, ←, ↑, →, ↓, valign, object, embed, param, style

Yancy Street Gang Jul 21 2006 08:47 AM

Yes, you can get Courier by default if you use the PRE tags. This is between PRE tags. But you can't explicitly choose a font.

KC Jul 22 2006 08:38 AM

I messed around with the 'styles admin' page a little, it seems to just affect the layout of the board and not posts. Everything is set to arial right now, un- less there is an objection to the change I find this easiest on the eyes. It's easy to change back.

ScarletKnight41 Jul 22 2006 09:50 AM

I'm more of a Times New Roman girl myself. But I know than sans serif fonts are preferable for this kind of thing, so Arial is fine with me.

Elster88 Aug 14 2006 11:12 AM

Elster88 wrote: ="SteveJRogers"] Elster88 wrote: I used a HTML table and just put pictures in the cells where I wanted pictures in. It's messy but it works. [url]http://cybermessageboard.ehost.com/getalife/viewtopic.php?t=3225[/url] If you click on quote you can see the code. Edgy may have neater table formatting. Actually maybe not...I may have stolen this from him in the first place. The post in the link apparantly got itself zapped It's in the KTE archives. I shoulda just pasted the code here, because I don't think there's a way to get at it now. I think all of the HTML code questions have been answered, but I realized my above statement is wrong. If you go to the thread you're looking at in the [url=http://www.getalifealready.com/cpf/archives/f15_t3225.shtml]deep archives[/url] and right-mouse click and choose "view source" you'll see the HTML code. That will get you the code for the whole thread, so it's a little tricky the first time to narrow it down to the code for the specific post you are looking at. Use the timestamps to navigate.