--Anchor used to "jump" forward or back in the post. (Also known as Bookmark)
The first line of code indicates (invisibly) exactly where you want the next code to allow you to jump to, in this case called a mid-point.
<a name="Mid"></a> (destination)
and this next line of code will be visible, saying "Go to Mid-point" and will do just that (when clicked on) from wherever you place it in the blog.
<a href="#Mid">Go To Mid-point</a> (starting point)
The A's are not alphabetical, they are anchors like others you encounter in coding. So a 2nd one would be very similar, except reading (for example) "Bot" in the first line and "Go to Bottom" in the second line. <a name="#Bot"></a> (destination)
<a href="Bot">Go to Bottom</a> (starting point)
OR
<a name="#Top"></a> (destination)
<a href="Top">Go to Top</a> (starting point)
Other "names" could be given; the Bookmark is not limited to the mentioned top, mid, and bottom. Name them as you desire, as long as the lines at the starting point and at the destination refer to the same Name.
The cursor will not arrive at any highlighted or marked position; you'll have to select "logical" places for the jump.
IN BETA: Select an html/javascript Page Element in which to place the "Go To" line (start) and move it with drag and drop. Select another such Page Element for the second line (destination); then drag and drop it where needed--at or preceding the destination.
Then you can JUMP from your starting point to the destination, forward or backward!
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Anchor Used to "Jump" Within Post
--Anchor used to "jump" forward or back in the post. (Also known as Bookmark)
The first line of code indicates (invisibly) exactly where you want the next code to allow you to jump to, in this case called a mid-point.
<a name="Mid"></a> (destination)
and this next line of code will be visible, saying "Go to Mid-point" and will do just that (when clicked on) from wherever you place it in the blog.
<a href="#Mid">Go To Mid-point</a> (starting point)
The A's are not alphabetical, they are anchors like others you encounter in coding. So a 2nd one would be very similar, except reading (for example) "Bot" in the first line and "Go to Bottom" in the second line. <a name="#Bot"></a> (destination)
<a href="Bot">Go to Bottom</a> (starting point)
OR
<a name="#Top"></a> (destination)
<a href="Top">Go to Top</a> (starting point)
Other "names" could be given; the Bookmark is not limited to the mentioned top, mid, and bottom. Name them as you desire, as long as the lines at the starting point and at the destination refer to the same Name.
The cursor will not arrive at any highlighted or marked position; you'll have to select "logical" places for the jump.
IN BETA: Select an html/javascript Page Element in which to place the "Go To" line (start) and move it with drag and drop. Select another such Page Element for the second line (destination); then drag and drop it where needed--at or preceding the destination.
Then you can JUMP from your starting point to the destination, forward or backward!
The first line of code indicates (invisibly) exactly where you want the next code to allow you to jump to, in this case called a mid-point.
<a name="Mid"></a> (destination)
and this next line of code will be visible, saying "Go to Mid-point" and will do just that (when clicked on) from wherever you place it in the blog.
<a href="#Mid">Go To Mid-point</a> (starting point)
The A's are not alphabetical, they are anchors like others you encounter in coding. So a 2nd one would be very similar, except reading (for example) "Bot" in the first line and "Go to Bottom" in the second line. <a name="#Bot"></a> (destination)
<a href="Bot">Go to Bottom</a> (starting point)
OR
<a name="#Top"></a> (destination)
<a href="Top">Go to Top</a> (starting point)
Other "names" could be given; the Bookmark is not limited to the mentioned top, mid, and bottom. Name them as you desire, as long as the lines at the starting point and at the destination refer to the same Name.
The cursor will not arrive at any highlighted or marked position; you'll have to select "logical" places for the jump.
IN BETA: Select an html/javascript Page Element in which to place the "Go To" line (start) and move it with drag and drop. Select another such Page Element for the second line (destination); then drag and drop it where needed--at or preceding the destination.
Then you can JUMP from your starting point to the destination, forward or backward!
Copyright
A lot of crap about copyright and so forth goes around. I'm no expert in it. But check these out.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Google statement about copyright.
According to this, your work, if legitimate, is copyrighted even if you don't copyright it. But do you have the big bucks to enforce it against some large entity or big damn bastard who's stalking you in some manner? There's the rub.
END.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Google statement about copyright.
According to this, your work, if legitimate, is copyrighted even if you don't copyright it. But do you have the big bucks to enforce it against some large entity or big damn bastard who's stalking you in some manner? There's the rub.
END.
Copyright
A lot of crap about copyright and so forth goes around. I'm no expert in it. But check these out.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Google statement about copyright.
According to this, your work, if legitimate, is copyrighted even if you don't copyright it. But do you have the big bucks to enforce it against some large entity or big damn bastard who's stalking you in some manner? There's the rub.
END.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Google statement about copyright.
According to this, your work, if legitimate, is copyrighted even if you don't copyright it. But do you have the big bucks to enforce it against some large entity or big damn bastard who's stalking you in some manner? There's the rub.
END.
Low Sidebar
These are my rote instructions when sidebar nosedives happen, which mostly occur in the Internet Explorer browser. I don't know that it happens very much in Firefox, but I know other horror stories about Firefox, so don't get too excited about how your browser is better than mine!
But, on to our problem! Sometimes it's simple, sometimes not.
Play Sherlock Holmes and test some changes without saving them until you use Preview and see that the change works and does no harm. It's hard, but I don't know any easy way.
To test posts one at a time, use the Permalink feature; if you click on the Post Title, your site will show only that one post. When you keep doing the blog like that, you MAY find a single post that pushes the sidebar down and that post will be the cause of your trouble. In other cases, of course, the trouble is coming from the sidebar and you just have to figure it out.
To hear all this put another way, go to Peter's post about it or Chuck's post.
But, on to our problem! Sometimes it's simple, sometimes not.
- Your sidebar may be going to the bottom because your server is crazy due to being worked on by Blogger. Your sidebar doesn't begin at the top like it's supposed to.
- Wrong code or missing pieces of code sometimes cause this kind of jump or aberration.
- It is probable you'll have to get out of Compose mode and enter Html mode in order to see wrong code in the posts.
- It is possible you have posted too large a photo or too long a link. Change that and it might go back to the top of the page. Look for a misstated IMG code.
- Possibly your main column width and sidebar exceed allowable Content width or header width.
- Sometimes one of the "floats" in the template will get changed for some reason and be wrong. Investigate. Options are "left", "right", and "none".
- If you suspect it may be caused by something in a particular post, you could Save as Draft to remove it temporarily and see if it was the cause. Then you can Publish it again later to put it back in place.
- Also, sometimes I've found it to be caused by just getting some wrong or missing code in the template or in a recent post. You might have one tag or symbol too many or too few. If you've deleted some things, maybe you left one little piece of nonsense code behind that's confusing the template.
- Once it was caused in a friend's site by a -->, the closing tag for hiding a comment; it had no start tag, was just wrongly there!
Play Sherlock Holmes and test some changes without saving them until you use Preview and see that the change works and does no harm. It's hard, but I don't know any easy way.
To test posts one at a time, use the Permalink feature; if you click on the Post Title, your site will show only that one post. When you keep doing the blog like that, you MAY find a single post that pushes the sidebar down and that post will be the cause of your trouble. In other cases, of course, the trouble is coming from the sidebar and you just have to figure it out.
To hear all this put another way, go to Peter's post about it or Chuck's post.
Low Sidebar
These are my rote instructions when sidebar nosedives happen, which mostly occur in the Internet Explorer browser. I don't know that it happens very much in Firefox, but I know other horror stories about Firefox, so don't get too excited about how your browser is better than mine!
But, on to our problem! Sometimes it's simple, sometimes not.
Play Sherlock Holmes and test some changes without saving them until you use Preview and see that the change works and does no harm. It's hard, but I don't know any easy way.
To test posts one at a time, use the Permalink feature; if you click on the Post Title, your site will show only that one post. When you keep doing the blog like that, you MAY find a single post that pushes the sidebar down and that post will be the cause of your trouble. In other cases, of course, the trouble is coming from the sidebar and you just have to figure it out.
To hear all this put another way, go to Peter's post about it or Chuck's post.
But, on to our problem! Sometimes it's simple, sometimes not.
- Your sidebar may be going to the bottom because your server is crazy due to being worked on by Blogger. Your sidebar doesn't begin at the top like it's supposed to.
- Wrong code or missing pieces of code sometimes cause this kind of jump or aberration.
- It is probable you'll have to get out of Compose mode and enter Html mode in order to see wrong code in the posts.
- It is possible you have posted too large a photo or too long a link. Change that and it might go back to the top of the page. Look for a misstated IMG code.
- Possibly your main column width and sidebar exceed allowable Content width or header width.
- Sometimes one of the "floats" in the template will get changed for some reason and be wrong. Investigate. Options are "left", "right", and "none".
- If you suspect it may be caused by something in a particular post, you could Save as Draft to remove it temporarily and see if it was the cause. Then you can Publish it again later to put it back in place.
- Also, sometimes I've found it to be caused by just getting some wrong or missing code in the template or in a recent post. You might have one tag or symbol too many or too few. If you've deleted some things, maybe you left one little piece of nonsense code behind that's confusing the template.
- Once it was caused in a friend's site by a -->, the closing tag for hiding a comment; it had no start tag, was just wrongly there!
Play Sherlock Holmes and test some changes without saving them until you use Preview and see that the change works and does no harm. It's hard, but I don't know any easy way.
To test posts one at a time, use the Permalink feature; if you click on the Post Title, your site will show only that one post. When you keep doing the blog like that, you MAY find a single post that pushes the sidebar down and that post will be the cause of your trouble. In other cases, of course, the trouble is coming from the sidebar and you just have to figure it out.
To hear all this put another way, go to Peter's post about it or Chuck's post.
Strange Symbols
Clean MS Word Gobbledegook!
Word has formatted lettering. In short it introduces some gobblydegook and symbols that will screw up templates and sometimes posts. I use two methods, usually separately, to "clean them up".
1. I write often in Word, but I "clean" it (remove formatting) by copying and pasting into Notepad (plain-text editor), then copying that again before pasting it into the Blogger editor.
OR
2. I copy and paste the Word doc into Google Docs And Spreadsheets, then copy and paste that into the Blogger Editor. Sometimes this works when the other will not.
You CAN sometimes get away with using Word and it'll be okay. But then it will trip and stumble and screw up your blog when you're not looking! Apostrophes, quotation marks, or other symbols will appear and create havoc, and question marks will replace hyphens! I've found that the quotation marks in Word will screw up a link code (an anchor formula) because the machine is seeing it differently than you and I do!
Though Word is very good in its own arena, it's not worth being careless about pasting it directly into Blogger!
END.
Word has formatted lettering. In short it introduces some gobblydegook and symbols that will screw up templates and sometimes posts. I use two methods, usually separately, to "clean them up".
1. I write often in Word, but I "clean" it (remove formatting) by copying and pasting into Notepad (plain-text editor), then copying that again before pasting it into the Blogger editor.
OR
2. I copy and paste the Word doc into Google Docs And Spreadsheets, then copy and paste that into the Blogger Editor. Sometimes this works when the other will not.
You CAN sometimes get away with using Word and it'll be okay. But then it will trip and stumble and screw up your blog when you're not looking! Apostrophes, quotation marks, or other symbols will appear and create havoc, and question marks will replace hyphens! I've found that the quotation marks in Word will screw up a link code (an anchor formula) because the machine is seeing it differently than you and I do!
Though Word is very good in its own arena, it's not worth being careless about pasting it directly into Blogger!
END.
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