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Kwee

Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:19 pm

I saw this discussed in the ID UI discussion thread so figured I'dwrite a quick how to on making pretty clicky links

So you've typed the following sentence and now want to make the word "here" into a link:

To see my Image Designwebsitego here.

You will have to click on "Edit as HTML" (by default you are in the "Graphical Editor"). You cannot go back to the "Graphical Editor" once you've typed up the link info in the "Edit as HTML" section (or you will lose your link work)so make sure you're done typing everything you're going to type.

Once in the"Edit as HTML" section, type the following around the word "here":

To see my Image Designwebsite go <a href="http://www.blah.com">here</a>.

Then submit post. Be sure to put http://or it interprets your link as being within the forums, and messes all up.If you edit the post ever, you have to do the whole "Edit as HTML" thing from scratch.

For clicky links in your signature you might want to include target=blank like so:

To see my Image Design website go <a href="http://www.blah.com' target=blank>here</a>.

The target=blank makes your site open in a new browser page. People like that and it makes them more likely to keep your page open after they go back to forum surfing. Note the second set of quotation marks should be double ones like all the others " but if I type them in after com and then leave a space it does something weird with my text.

Kwee Glitterwing of Starsider
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& Kwee-kwee ~ Master Image Designer
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Kwee

Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:25 pm

#2

Note: Target=blank is not necessary when posting onthese forumsbecausethe links automatically open in a new window. This does not extend to our signatures however. To type up a signature, click on "My Profile" at the top of your forum screen and find the appropriate box to type in

What I did was use Frontpage Express (comes with Microsoft Office) to get it how I wanted it, then went to their html editor to see what it looked like with code attached and copied and pasted that into My Profile.

Kwee Glitterwing of Starsider
Ex Image Designer Correspondent ~ Elder Tailor
& Kwee-kwee ~ Master Image Designer
Gamer Girl Columnist ~ swg.warcry.com
Ivory & Topaz of TC ~ Elder Dancers, IDs, Musicians

NJ62

Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:59 pm

#3

How to make a sig the easy way:

Make sig in notepad (so you'll get single spacing on your lines)

Open a blank reply here and paste in your text. Format it as you want it (colors, centering, font size). Then hit "edit as html." All that html mess should appear. Add your links in with that

How to make your links different colors than the aqua default:

Once you get to the "edit as html" page you should see things that look like this: . Those are your font colors. The is your color and the turns it off. Figure out which color you want your link and do the following: <a href="blah blah"target=blank>here</a>. Then the link "here" should be the color you've indicated. That way you can make the links the same color as the rest of your text (as in my sig).

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Nynna

Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:41 pm

#4

Oh my, I am so silly when it comes to this..Computer things.. Not my strong side..

Nothing works, I want a pretty sig tooo!

Message Edited by Nynna on 02-13-2004 12:42 AM

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Kwee

Thu Feb 12, 2004 6:04 pm

#5

NJ62 wrote:

How to make your links different colors than the aqua default:

Ooo thanks for sharing that, I'm going to need it now that I'm using the Imp background, my links looks awful now.

Kwee Glitterwing of Starsider
Ex Image Designer Correspondent ~ Elder Tailor
& Kwee-kwee ~ Master Image Designer
Gamer Girl Columnist ~ swg.warcry.com
Ivory & Topaz of TC ~ Elder Dancers, IDs, Musicians

NJ62

Thu Feb 12, 2004 8:04 pm

#6

Ugh, I realized that my post above got garbled, but trying to edit made things worse... ok redoing it, highlighting stuff that got mysteriously eaten by the board monster.

How to make a sig the easy way:

Make sig in notepad (so you'll get single spacing on your lines)

Open a blank reply here and paste in your text. Format it as you want it (colors, centering, font size). Then hit "edit as html." All that html mess should appear.[ OPTIONAL: Add your links in with that <a href="blah blah"> stuff (if you even want links).] Then copy and paste the entire html mess into your sig... Don't post it, silly!

How to make your links different colors than the aqua default:

Once you get to the "edit as html" page you should see things that look like this: . Those are your font colors. The is your color and the turns it off. Figure out which color you want your link and do the following: <a href="blah blah"target=blank>here</a>. Then the link "here" should be the color you've indicated. That way you can make the links the same color as the rest of your text (as in my sig).

n'Jessi
former correspondent, former player
All your hawtpants are belong to me.
www.swgtailor.com
PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE SWGTAILOR OFFSITE FORUM (IMAGE DESIGNERS WELCOME TOO)

Darkbladed

Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:53 pm

#7

also you can do

<a href=mailto:[email protected]>Email Me</a>

to put a link to your email

TKC is always looking for new members to join us in our goal of prolonging the game experience. There is no bigotry in TKC. Whether it be race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender, handicap, or anything else, we won?t exclude or condemn you in our community. Our only prerequisites for joining are loyalty and an open mind. Contributing is not necessary to visit TKC or download our cheats, but we encourage you to do so anyway.

Darkbladed

Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:55 pm

#8

Darkbladed wrote:

also you can do

Email Me

to put a link to your email

like this

TKC is always looking for new members to join us in our goal of prolonging the game experience. There is no bigotry in TKC. Whether it be race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender, handicap, or anything else, we won?t exclude or condemn you in our community. Our only prerequisites for joining are loyalty and an open mind. Contributing is not necessary to visit TKC or download our cheats, but we encourage you to do so anyway.

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