Practice Thread - Try out new things here!

Kool!  Thanks!

I want to learn how to make a link appear with the name of the link, or "click here" instead of just pasting a long http:// address.

For instance, if I wanted to link back to the thread about posting more pics and video links daily, how would I do that so that it didn't look like this

http://www.africam.com/wildlife/pictures_and_videos_we_need_more

It's under "how to's and useful links" 

Click here 

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Thanks Ingwe.  I have that thread open to learn.

Ok, here is my try to link back to the thread about how much we love for members to record their sightings with pictures and links to videos, posted daily in those threads:  click here

but I won't even ask what Pop Ups, Events, and Advanced are about in the window.

Ingwe......what a COOL idea!  This thread will be a lot of help.  I'll try to remember it's here.  Got a thread for THAT?   

  hope i did this right   GONE .lol

I took this picture to tiny pic ,,but have no idea how to cut it down in size ,,i though tiny pic would make it smaller ..Could someone tell me how?

Hi Dolly,

You can see how to resize pics here 

Ingwe, I have tryed this, but you show here i click on icon and a pop up window ??  there is no pop up window..these directions are very hard to follow .

That's weird Dolly - when you click on the little green tree at the bottom of the white reply box, the pop up window should come up? 

Also you can use Irnfanview to resize pics.  It's a free programme, easy to use and doesn't take up a lot of space on your computer..

Irnfanview 

I Don't have anything that has a green tree on any box !! i been having trouble adding new avatars when i want to change it,,maybe this is why .well i will try the new program you show..thanks a lot ,

oh my goodness , this shows how dumb i am ...i just now seen the tree your talking about .. i need to get new glasses ..

http://i179.photobucket.com/albhttp://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w284/bonnyboot/redheadweaver.jpgums/w284/bonnyboot/redheadweaver.jpg

Dolly, I don't want to butt in but...

when you post a message, down at the bottom of the white box you type in, does it say enable rich-text or disable rich-text? Ingwe's question relates to adding a picture in the enabled rich text screen (at the bottom it will say disable rich-text) In that screen you should see this at the bottom:

The green tree is to add a picture, the broom is to clean up code, the A is select color for font, the line is to add a horizontal line, and the smiley face is to add a smiley.

The small chain and the broken chain above all that is how you make a link in your text. You highlight a word, click on the chain, a small window will open and you paste the url to where you are linking to in the first box and in the third box down, choose new blank for target (that means whoever opens the link will not lose the page they are on), then click insert.

Hope this helps

thanks a lot auntie, i need all the help i can get !!!   i never noticed them before , i did make one smaller ..does this mean after i add picture i use broom to wipe off the url address? Auntie do you see the picture i put up? Can you see the writing across , like photobucket? how can i get rid of it ?

Dolly/Bonny the broom is to clean up all the unclosed links that could give your post a problem. Another words, if you were typing in bold and somehow the closing link for bold got lost or wasn't there, by clicking the broom, it would add that command to the type so when you clicked on post comment, it would look like you wanted it to. Not really a problem unless you are going back and forth in enable rich-text and disable rich-text and adding your own commands. You shouldn't have to worry about it other than that. It shouldn't do any harm if you do click on it.

Here's my practice for quotes.

In your picture above you added the url for the picture to the body of your post. You didn't have to do that, that's why you see the address with photobucket included. If you are in rich-text enabled and have the tree picture at the bottom of your white box, you only need to click on that tree, add the url to the first line, give it a name if you want and give it a description if you want. If you choose not to do those last 2 things, it will give you a warning message, but you ignore that and click insert anyway. If you wanted to describe what the picture was, you would type in the comment box, and click the tree where ever you wanted to put the picture. Once the picture is there, you can click once on it, grab ahold of the corner and drag it bigger or smaller however you want it. If you grab it from the top or sides it will distort your picture, so from the corners is best.

NK Elephant

What we missed this morning. Beautiful picture of waterhole

What we missed this morning.

Thanks Ingwe !!!

 I feel almost ready to really post pics on this site. Thanks for creating this practice thread !! I seen that we needed more picture takers so I am trying to learn here!!! We appreciate you !!!

Well done kokodog, try it till you can do it. We all were there at some stage, learning how to do it

Well done Kokodog!

All quiet at the waterhole so far tonight.....except CRICKETS!!!

Quiet at EP also tonight except ..... CRICKETS!!!!

Still no critters to be found tonight... hiding until daylight @ NK!

Ok Cerinthe and Ingwe, I feel pretty good about this pic posting now (Oh, I hope I have not just jinxed myself) Ready for critters now !! Thanks for the encouragement!! Looking forward to catching some great moments!! 

for Barry..

I don't think you've copied the entire URL for the pic.  Try again!

ok frustrated not only me but now the daughter the genious we tried tiny pic and photobucket with no luck..hmmm  I think I will let the africam car go tonight as is has been a long day here..lots of snow..I will try to get Miss ashley when she feels better flu....I don't want to tax her to much she tried tiny bucket and photobucket..my guess is I need patience