OK I thought I'd just publish a few things you might or might not know about commenting in Gather. These things will be useful everywhere you go online that doesn't provide an integrated text editor, so pay attention now LOL :)
First when you are commenting sometimes it is helpful to emphasize a word or a phrase, I like to highlight the persons name I am responding to so that they can easily see it when scanning great long lists of comments.
Here is a little simple html that will work in your comments to make them more personal to you and more easily seen by others...
- bold text: <b>...</b>
- italic text: <i>...</i>
- underline text: <u>...</u>
Now if you want to make a link in your comment that is very simple and much more likely to be used than if you just paste a cold URL...
- link: <a href="http://www.gather.com">my link text</a>
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OK now lets include an image into a comment, you know, you've see it and wondered, how the hell do they do that???
Again it is extremely simple.
Find your graphic online and right click on it, choose "Properties" and from the properties box select the "Location" URL or address. Copy and paste the URL into a notepad, it will look something like this:
http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif
Notice how it looks like a website address only it must end in .gif or .jpg and not .com
Now we just need to wrap our address and post it into a comment. This is how you do that...
<a href="http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif"><img src="http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif"/></a>
Notice now that the address appears twice in the above code and always within the "..." so now that you have done it once with me you can copy the html into a notepad NOT a Word document and by simply replacing the addresses with new ones, you can post any image you want in your comments...
By the way, this is what our image turned out to look like, not bad eh??
Remember now, this Article ONLY covers "Commenting" if you want to do these things in Articles there are buttons in the Editer that will take care of that.
And...
Let me know if there's ever anything I can help you with... I'm Robine.Gather.com
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Great job. 10 stars.
I have been desdigning my own websites for 10 years now, but of course these days you need to know much more than just HTML to do that! But for blogging it's great to know. A very useful message to put out.
Have a fun evening.
Tony
THANKS MUCH! I had just been so spoiled with other Sites where you don't need to know or do html that Gather certainly makes you feel like a real slow learner in this age of TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENT. {ROFL}
Blessings to you Robin ~ Always coming to the rescue!
Rene
René
This is a very informative article R o b i n ♥. Please consider publishing it to the Member Guides to Gather group.
Thank You!!
But you can use the html talked about in this article in your Gather Mail, and later I want to do an article on hot images but I didn't want to fry any brains with to much info in this article.</font></center>
Gather recently changed/removed some of the formatting options available in the article editor. Therefore, if Gather doesn't recognize your centered text, you need to use another editor (like the AOL email composer), or use:
<p align=center>
in the HTML editor, which is accessed on the article editor toolbar.
Gather does recognize <font> commands, but only in the article editor.
Thanks, Robin.
I just did an html comment to Judy answering a question and it came out totally not the way I typed it, it doesn't matter, just chuckle to yourself and try again.
They change Gather so much that everyone is struggling to keep up, you are not alone...
It doen't seem to have turned up though, I think you used the Link code instead of the Image code they are different...
Well done!!!
to make the link be to a webpage but have the text you click on say something other than just show the url you're pointing to, do as Robin did above and add the text you want to show on the page after the url <.a href="http://www.gather.com">click here<./a> click here you can replace the gather.com part with any url to any page you want your link to point to, and the click here part with anything you want. I put a period in these codes so the code wouldn't execute in the examples, so be sure to take that out if you copy and paste.
In the image tag, the part that puts the image on the page is the second part img src=
you can put any image anywhere ..but, you have to know where the image is hosted. You have to know the exact url to it. Which is why, if you don't have your own domain or your own webspace somewhere..like on freewebs or something, Photobucket is usually easier for most people. When you upload a pic to photobucket, they are hosting the image for you.
I have my own domains, so I can link stuff that I have on my server ..like this
<.img src="http://www.starrbrite.com/musicsavesmysoul.jpg"/.> and it looks like this
to change the size of the image, just insert height= and/or width= and the size you want it to be after the jpg"
<..img src="http://www.starrbrite.com/musicsavesmysoul.jpg" height=200 width-200./>
another one that comes in handy is the break tag.. to put spaces between paragraphs and stuff.. that looks like this but no period... it doesn't need another tag, it's on it's own.. and if you want 5 spaces between paragraphs, you would just repeat it 5 times.
My favorite is the marquee tag.. that will give you scrolling text or scrolling pics.. but it wont' work here It's very simple and goes like this <marquee>the url</marquee>
so to make the pic I put in above scroll you would just do this <.img src="http://www.starrbrite.com/musicsavesmysoul.jpg" height=200 width-200/><./marquee>
and hopefully, i didn't screw any of this up and it will look the way it should once I post this LOL
<.marquee.><.img src="http://www.starrbrite.com/musicsavesmysoul.jpg" height=200 width-200/><./marquee>
If this works, you'll be looking at the sunset picture I took recently. I've got it posted as an image over on my page if you'd like to travel over there to see it and more pics. :)
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