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January 18, 2005 1:12:47 AM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
I thought about writing this article ages ago, but for some reason never did. Now that i've been here for a while i should be able to play around with my blog. Well no. It's still plain boring (how it looks like i mean). And i've noticed some people who've been here just recently know more than me *shame on me!*. So here is how ignorant i am.

I dont know how to:

- Insert 'my favourites' (sites, blogs) in my blog
- Change the color of my blog (right now it looks awful... )
- Insert a picture in my blog (but i know how to do it in an article now, yay!)
- Insert a link in an article (you know the kind you just click on and voilà the link appears)
- insert a quote in a comment from a previous comment or from the article i'm commenting on (if that makes sense)


And i'm sure there are other things i forgot, or i dont even know i can do on JU.

So if someone out there is kind enough to help me out, i'd really appreciate it. Even if you dont answer all of my questions, a few will help. Thanks
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Reply #1 January 18, 2005 4:09:14 AM
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IG - click on the icon that says My Account

Everything you want to do is there - adding a favourites list click on manage custom links

change colours or which side you have your sidebar on -Select Site Themes and titles

square bracket quote square bracket TEXT square bracket /quote square bracket ie [ ] [ / ] ---(square brakets next to the P above the quotation marks)

alternatively you just click the Q - but that's never worked for me.

does that make sense?
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Reply #2 January 18, 2005 4:33:10 AM
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This might be clearer on the quoting....

[quote]Insert Quote Here[/quote]
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Reply #3 January 18, 2005 4:36:10 AM
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true - but when I tried to do that it made the yellow box instead of what you had - and I can't figure out how we differed
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Reply #4 January 18, 2005 4:45:14 AM
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To put a picture on your sidebar, instead of putting text for the "Link Title" in Custom Links, put a standard HTML image source tag with the URL of a picture. eg. --

<img src=http://genenash.com/color.jpg>


That's the tag I use for my picture on my sidebar. Just replace "http://genenash.com/color.jpg" with the address of your picture.

The tricky part is that the entire URL including source tag has to be less than 60 characters. That doesn't give you a lot of space.
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Reply #5 January 18, 2005 4:49:02 AM
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true - but when I tried to do that it made the yellow box instead of what you had - and I can't figure out how we differed


You have to use the Ampersand/Semicolon equivalent for the [ and ] ( or the < > ) if you want to use it as an example rather than a tag. (I'm not sure that made sense even to me.)

&#91;quote&#93;Insert Quote Here&#91;/quote&#93; is what it looked like when I put it in. That's the only way to keep it from being interpreted as a tag rather than an example.

< > has to be &lt; &gt; to keep them from being interpreted as a tag and disappearing.

When I really want to freak people out...
...I use a purple box.

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Reply #6 January 18, 2005 5:23:01 AM
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Oh, I missed one. For links:

<A HREF="http://genenash.com/">The World's Greatest Site</A>

produces this link on a page: The World's Greatest Site

Just replace http://genenash.com/ with the address of the page you want to link to, and put whatever you want the text to be where I have "The World's Greatest Site" (i.e., between > and </A> ).

So the form is: <A HREF="SITE ADDRESS">SOME TEXT</A>

I hope that was clear.
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Reply #7 January 19, 2005 12:04:42 AM
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks you guys Let me try and play with all this tools now ... So for a quote, we'll see if this works:

(I'm not sure that made sense even to me.)
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Reply #8 January 19, 2005 12:06:36 AM
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YAY!!!! It worked

I used the this technique:

Insert Quote Here
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Reply #9 January 19, 2005 12:08:49 AM
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hum that looks freaky...
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Reply #10 January 19, 2005 12:40:10 AM
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I have a problem with adding my favourites. When i got to manage site custom links it says 'Select the Section Heading'. There isnt one at all. So i look at how to create one and it says select Create Section Heading. But how do i select that?? I must sound like a dumbass, but i want to make my site a little better...
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Reply #11 January 19, 2005 1:27:53 AM
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The first item on the pull down menu under "Section Heading" should say "-- Create Section Heading --".

When you want to create a new section, set the menu to "-- Create Section Heading --" and put the name of the new section you want to create (e.g., "My Favorite Blogs") in "Link Title." Don't put anything in "URL." Press the "Add Link" button.

The page should reload and look the same, except now when you select the "Section Heading" menu the title you just added should be under "-- Create Section Heading --".


Very Important: When you're adding a link make sure you've selected the section you want it under first, otherwise your "Link Title" will probably be added to the list of sections and there's no way to delete them. I have a whole bunch of "sections" that were supposed to be links clogging up my menu that I can't get rid of.

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Reply #12 January 20, 2005 6:10:13 PM
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Thank you so much Gene!!!! All i need to do now, is find the time to do it. But knowing how I am I might come back asking for more help

Again thank you so much
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Reply #13 January 23, 2005 9:48:21 AM
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When I really want to freak people out......I use a purple box.


How the heck did you do that? I am a little lost on that but it looks cool!
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Reply #14 January 23, 2005 3:48:25 PM
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I wouldnt mind knowing that too actually
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Reply #15 January 23, 2005 7:52:31 PM
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Change the html code, and through that which color is shown. The yellow comes from a color code, if you don't use the quote code but manually insert the html code for the table that is the quote you can change the color to just about anything you would want. Or you could edit your post and change the bgcolor to some other number and see what you get...
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Reply #16 January 24, 2005 3:57:23 PM
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Too complicated for my little head, i'll come back to this later and try to figure out what you said Danny, nevertheless thank you very much for the hint
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Reply #17 January 24, 2005 6:14:16 PM
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I'll try again then. Normal quote uses bgColor=#FFF394 to make it yellow. If you use the quote code it will use that color. But if you manually insert the html code that forms the quote, you can change the color. Gene used BGCOLOR="#FFCCFF" and that made purple. Look at the mess below, see where it says bgcolor? Change that number and you change the folor of the quote. Make more sense now?

<TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb-Body-Quote-Table"><TR><TD class="mb-Body-Quote-Text"> example quoted text </TD></TR></TABLE>
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Reply #18 January 24, 2005 6:53:04 PM
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Oh my gosh!!!!! Okay let me try this Danny, to see if i can make it work:

example quoted text

Phew! too many things to type and it probably wont work
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Reply #19 January 24, 2005 6:54:22 PM
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Right I guess I messed something up ???
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Reply #20 January 24, 2005 8:50:01 PM
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example quote text


testing my own code... and if that all works, well i'm impressed with what you did, you managed to somehow get text before the reply line, i didn't think that was possible
Looking at what you did when you tried, you left out spaces. Try cutting and pasting the code, it might look odd but it should work.
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Reply #21 January 24, 2005 8:59:10 PM
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Hehe, but i did it the way you said to do it, except i used BGCOLOR="#FFCCFF" instead of bgColor=#FFF394. I dont know i must have typed the wrong thing somewhere along the line, all i wanted to do was get a purple box
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Reply #22 January 24, 2005 9:11:03 PM
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Well the lack of spaces in the code is why it looks all odd, as for the color, well you could always try again. Or just edit your attempt until it does what you want it to
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Reply #23 January 24, 2005 9:37:44 PM
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ah okay. Well i should try again now:

all i wanted to do was get a purple box



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Reply #24 January 24, 2005 9:40:14 PM
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Oh damn i forgot to change the color code hang on

all i wanted to do was get a purple box


fingers crossed.....
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Reply #25 January 24, 2005 9:43:10 PM
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Gee still no purple box

all i wanted to do was get a purple box


I'm trying one last time and then i'll give up
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