Newbies Practice Font & Photo Features

This thread has been specifically created to be linked to the Okay, explain! thread in which Hogwarts Express group members introduce newbies to LT and/or the Hogwarts Express group. That said, welcome to LT and the HE group!

This thread is designed for newbies (and those not so much newbies) to do some practice attempts of the LT font features as well as practice with posting photos. If you haven't yet read the thread linked above, I'll repeat the photo and font features in this post.

Just remove the spaces from the following, and insert one space where I've placed an underscore (_) in your posts for the desired photo effect or font.

Photos:
link to photo
" actual photo " >

Fonts:
italics
bold
underlined
crossed out

bullet points

Please note: bullet points and photos do not display in profile comments - they are just for thread posts.

Okay, have fun!

A word about posting photos (cross-posted from the explanations thread): try not to post anything too ginormous, as it makes the entire thread where the big photo is posted hard to navigate.

How do you know if a picture is going to be too big? Well, if you're pulling it from Google Images, the size is listed. My rule of thumb is to not post anything too much over 500x500. Also, if you right-click on the picture and choose "view image" it shows you the picture at actual size. If it takes up your whole screen, it's going to be too big to post here!

What should you do if you accidentally post a huge picture? Well, the easiest thing is to just remove it from your post. As you probably have noticed, there's a little pencil symbol in the top right corner of your post. Looks something like this:

If you click on that, you can fix your typos, remove unwanted bulky pictures, and close those pesky font tags that make the whole rest of the thread bold and italic!

Have fun!

I've heard there is a way to re-size pictures. If anyone remebers how, or knows where to find it, that would be a good thing to post.

That would be extremely helpful! I don't know how to do it (other than with pictures in my own Photobucket account, but that's another story).

Grrrr...the picture thing is not working!

"http://www.cardsandart.net/IMAGES/easterlilies2521.jpg">

Help! It's only doing links and I'm trying to have a picture actually show up.

let's see . . .

Here are some Easter Lillies

How did you do that?

okay, here's what I did:



Except take out the spaces before and after the

is it showing up? why doesn't it like me?

I just figured it out I think! Lets see

Yes!!!! LOL, I was switching it and writing scr instead of src.

Yay good job!

YAY U! ;P

Yay!



Pretty flowers, by the way.

I'm going to put in a link...
Google is awesome

#16 src stands for source, that's how I remember it.

Great job, biblio! Glad you learned to post pictures. :)

IMG stands for image, right?

yep

That looks fine Ms_B! Just remove the spaces and replace the underline with a space.

still didn't work grrrrr....

I just go on photo bucket it is easy there because you just copy and past one of the links. You dont have to add anything.

You have the page URL there Bella. The image URL usually ends in jpg.

and you have a space between edited because silly LT though that my

yay did it!!!!!

YAY bella!! Round od applause.

strange sometimes you get it. Other time you dont.

Love the kitties!! So cute :-)

italics
bold
underline
stirkeout

#34 Bella:
That's adorable! :)

Does the code for bold work in the profile as well as the messages? I can't seem to get it to work for mine.

Let's see if I get this right

#46 I don't think the HTML codes will work in profile messages at all. I've tried but it doesn't seem to show up.

I haven't tried HTML on profiles before, but I had a feeling they wouldn't work.

#49 I've tried it and they don't work. But I wish they did.

the Bold worked in my profile ...

#51 I've actually gotten the italics to work but underlining didn't work. So I'm not sure. (I pretty much posted because I was trying to take down rissa's wall)

If you look, they do tell you right above the comment box what will work.

I have just mastered the italics and such but i can not seem to master the pictures i keep forgetting the code!

italics
bold
underlined
strike

bullets

got the fonts down, but can't get picture

"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3167/2591419836_ca7de830f1.jpg">

no luck on pictures

make sure you put except remove all the spaces and put a space where the underscore is.

Hey, I did it! Thanks for the help biblioholic29. I was using the url at the site rather than the address of the picture.

book 'em Dano. I mean, nice work Dano.

I bet you have never heard that one before ;)

Welcome!

I hear it all the time! And I like it too!

now my second try isn't working!

I should practice some more!

Now it worked, but I don't know what I changed. I just retyped the whole thing, and it worked.

When I started doing pictures I would type src as scr. I also always double check that I have both quotation marks.

Cute cats. Are they yours?

Yes. the boys are mine. The first is Obi-wan. He's grown up since that picture. He's now a much larger, much lazier version of that cute kitten. The other is Napoleon. He's a very regal feline (at least he thinks so).

They are both beautiful! I love their names.

Thank you, catbastet. Napoleon thanks you as well. Obi-wan would, but he doesn't speak English :)

Welcome, Dano! What handsome cats!

With all these compliments, my cats are starting to puff up with pride. I'm not sure my house can hold such inflated egos!

Perhaps if you tied them to strings, and let them float around outside... ;)

They are very cute Dano. Does Obi-wan use a lot of Jedi mind tricks on you?

catbastet, not a bad plan :)

jugglingpaynes, no, Obi is, how shall I put this? He's a bit slow. I didn't know that when I got him, or he wouldn't have ended up with a jedi name :) I would have kept his name to one syllable so it wouldn't be to hard for him to understand.

Too bad. I could so imagine a conversation like this:

You want to give Obi-wan food.

I want to give Obi-wan food.

You want to give Obi-wan your bed.

I want to give Obi-wan my bed.

You want to give Obi-wan a tummy rub.

I want to give Obi-wan a tummy rub. ;)

Got another question for you experts on doing smooth stuff in your posts.

If " actual photo " > is used for photos in posts, what is: link to photo used for?

catbastet, LOL. That's good stuff. But, I do that for him anyway. He doesn't need mind tricks to work on my sympathies.

That is when you want to link us to something cool you found, like a website or video, or photos that can't be viewed on the discussion board for whatever reason.

answering question in #75

jugglingpaynes, where: "link to photo" would be replaced by? the url? and the img one is only for photos?

It should read: name of link

Ah, that makes more sense to me. I thought, "what's the point of two confusing methods to add a photo to a post?"

You tech-savvy folks are so helpful! I'd still be trying to figure out how to turn on my computer if it wasn't for people who are good at this stuff.

*suppressing giggles at being considered tech-savvy*

I am a big believer in jumping in and hoping I figure out what I'm doing. Everything I can do I have learned through many mistakes and copious note-taking. ;o)

That's exactly how I learn too! Notes, patience and trial and error! I've starred this thread so that I'll have it handy, and I've scribbled all the codes down so I can tape it to my desk.

Don't mind me. Trying to figure out if there's a way to mess with the color.

And my conclusion is that I can't do it... Sad day.

You can have any colour you like. So long as it's black.

Or, you can cheat - so long as you are prepared to put the effort into it. F'example:

I am so awesome!

Hey! This is not fun!

K, i just noticed that the command to resize pictures is not here, do you want to edit the OP to include it? It's:



I find that height="300" works pretty well, eg:



Hey, what's the command to insert spaces again?

Ah ha! I think i found it:
xxxxxxxxxx

Practice

Makes

Prefect.

How did you become a prefect?

#85 MrA:
That is really cool! Where'd you get your font if it isn't a secret?

#90-91 MrA:
Thanks! :)

#92 kirby:

I'd guess it was

practice

;)

Cooltext.com

oh yeah, i was wondering where i got that from. Thanks Ms_B!

That's so neat! *waves to Bella*

This is so cool!

This one is hot!

Image by Cool Text: Logo and Button Generator - Create Your Own

Yay, for practice makes perfect!

Stupid NBSPs huh?

Just
Practicing
you

guys

"http://www.commercialchristmasornaments.com/shop/images/categories/GiftBox.jpg">

bumping this up

Does anyone know how to change the color of the font? Can it be done?

It can be done some places online, but it doesn't work on LT. I just learned the codes recently and attempted it on LT last week, I think.

Blogger accepts the following colors:

This would be in red.
This would be in green.
This would be in yellow.
This would be in blue.
This would be in purple.
This would be in orange.
This would be in brown.

How to Change Font Styles, which works on some parts of Blogger:

This would be in Sybil Green.
This would be in Minya Nouvelle.
This would be in Teen Light.
This would be in French Script MT.

Remove all spaces. Enter a space in place of underscores. (_)

Edited to correct codes which got erased when this was posed

They all look black to me. ;) To bad. It would be fun to be colorful.

Look now. Sorry! That was almost teasing. ;) LT ate the codes because I didn't put spaces between everything.

I did something weird to my computer then, too. The font is incredibly tiny. I can hardly see it!! I'm going to close my tab and open a new one, but we should seriously consider posting the codes for making font and screen sizes smaller and larger. ;) I think compski knows the codes.

Cool, thanks K! It worked for me on Bookmooch.

You're welcome! I've used a few of the colors on my BookMooch profile, too. :)

So this is supposed to indent text.

Does this indent it further?

And will the next one be invisible?

Too soon to tell?

And so it did indent.

And the next one did not further.

The one after only maybe invisible...

No longer too soon to tell but for this post edit.

(Instructions in post #115 on the Okay, explain! thread.)

I'm trying to do bold, so, here goes nothing...
hello

it didn't work... =(

I tried again and no. I'm hopeless =(

The first one shouldn't have a backslash, so it should be you word except without any of the spaces. Keep trying, you'll get it.

Thanks bib. Okay, let me try again (I hope I get it)
Hello

I got it!!! YAY!

Congrats!

okay i got the whole bold thingy lets see if i can get a pic

YAY ME!!!! it's a koala bear

I know that Koala. It lives next door, i think.

you should tell them to join LT

Not a good idea. Koalas cuss too much.

Is this the same neighbor that was making all the noise? It figures.

yup. Darn rowdy koalas. I wish we had moved into a place next to a family of bandicoots instead. Quiet, peace-loving animals, bandicoots.

My husband asks if bandicoots climb into your trash like raccoons. That's what our neighbors have been doing. Late night parties in the neighbor's driveway.

Your neighbours climb into your trash?

No, bandicoots are much better behaved than that. That's why they don't have to wear little black masks for disguise.

Ah, that's what I figured.

Frankly the skunks make very good neighbors. They are quiet, go about their business. If only they didn't scare so easily...

"bandicoot" should be on the fun words thread, but I'm too lazy to go find it.

#131- i am not a rowdy koala i am peaceful and fun loving



see i am stealing water from some bikers



and i am peacefully asleep in a tree

That's not water, it's vodka! That Koala is hammered! Bad koala! (not you, DK).

MrA. how can you accuse my peeps of being hammered rotflol.


Look at this cute innocent face and tell me truthfully if me or any of my family of koala brothers can become hammered... Don't you just wanna hug us! 0 8)

Face is very cute, it's those claws that are preventing me from hugging one.

yes those claws do not fit the face do they

People like to take advantage of cute things/people so we need some way to protect ourselves i will be nice if you hug me 0 8)

maybe it's a drop bear.

ETA better link.

Koalas do get hammered when they eat too many eucalyptus leaves. They are very snuggly to cuddle though.

i am not fictional i am real Mr.A and i don't exactly know were the koala thing came from i plan on goin to school for marine biology i wanna work with dolphins and whales not koalas but my backup is zoology so maybe that works for the koala thing so the koala part may or may not be fictional i have long nails(claws) sharp teeth and i am cute but i am blonde not gray and i am 5ft 11in and i disappear if i turn sideways but i think i would cry if i saw a koala in the zoo that big/tall

#144 i am not cuddley i am too boney lol

>#144: That's an urban myth.

i hope so or i need to stay away from the eucalyptus lol

Just trying a little something:

Drat, never mind. Okay, back to your lives, citizens!

hhmm let me try again

"http://www.flickr.com/photos/40011718@N04/3677186800/">

ok what did I do wrong?! atleast the link works

I'm not sure. When I click on that link, it takes me to the Flickr/Yahoo sign-in page. Could it be something to do with your security settings in Flickr?

probably let me change those real quick

probably let me change those real quick

I don't usually use Flickr, so I can't say of that's it, though. And when I look at the page source for that post, it looks like you are putting an anchor (a href) tag inside an image (img src) tag. Are you pasting something from Flickr? You might try just clicking on your picture until it's the only thing on your screen, then copying the text from the address bar and pasting it into an

ok my security settings are changed, I think anyway, maybe the link will work now

ok this one is from my picturetrail account it gives me several links to copy and paste, let's see if this works.

yay!! ok this is from a block party last October
In the photo, Tonks, dragon, Hermione, Harry, & Professor McGonagal

"http://www.ambybabyphotos.com/view-image.php?subject_id=1&image_id=35">

ok I give up for the night

Try a picture.

Next attempt:

Another way

From Yard Birds

Fantastic! I love your chickadee! It reminds me of the famous bluebird photo.

Good job dad! And great pictures! (My dad took those pictures everyone!)

Beautiful pictures!

Yes beautiful. I especially like the butterfly picture.

I love the butterfly on the lilac!

This is a test

This is a test 2

This is a test 3

This is a test 4

This is a test 5

was that a test?

Yes

I is bored

Better go visitor coming

test

Why can't I get the resizing to work?



Grrrrrr

from the source code, it looks like the size numbers are missing?

ETA #2, forget i said anything, i can't get it to resize either. Something about that picture, maybe?



ETA (#1) whoah, that didn't work too well either. I'll try again.

ah ha! The sizing htmls had been disabled on LT, but they have now been restored. Hence the tiny pies.

It's discussed here.

Just checking something.

I am so confused.

hehe! lollipops!

Just testing something:

. . . it didn't work.

Move along, nothing to see here.

test

ditto

it worked!!!

I am stupid
I am very clever.

Yippee !
I did it!

Okay so I need to practice this new spoiler feature

I hope I am doing this right.

Look again!

Why yes I believe I am!

191: That is neat. How do you do that?