Help for Drool Conference Users

~baine Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (08:48) #201

used the wrong abbreviation for italic Did I close all my tags?

~EileenG Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (08:50) #202

Pretty good, but you missed a bold closing tag. Practice makes perfect...and none of us are perfect! Now try some pictures!

~baine Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (08:51) #203

Blinking text should be used sparingly. It can get a bit obnoxious.

~baine Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (08:54) #204

Your're right. I missed the bold tag. How about this time?

~EileenG Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (09:10) #205

Perfect! A+.

~Moon Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (12:04) #206

Do not be scare!

~baine Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (12:14) #207

Moon--hope you don't mind. I tried to copy your image to practice inserting a graphic. I don't know the addresses of many graphics yet.

~baine Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (12:18) #208

Do you mean I can just splash these around wherever I want? Dynamite, huh!

~baine Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (12:25) #209

Question for lurking experts: Some graphics load and some don't when I go on to a topic. Any reason for this--limitations of my system, one-time glitches? From the responses that come after some of these, it seems that at least some people are getting them. Thanks for any help available.

~patas Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (12:45) #210

Cymbeline, if your html is correct and the pics are online to be accessed, the only problem I've heard of is when the site won't allow the pic to be used, like Xoom, for instance.

~patas Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (12:48) #211

I also tried to post some graphics that took forever to load and finally wouldn't (for Colin's birthday party)and Karen had to delete those posts :-(

~baine Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (17:07) #212

Some of the unloadable graphics are replaced by that xoom logo thing and some are replaced by that rectangle with the broken up picture in the upper left corner if you know what I mean--the one that means a pic hasn't loaded. I'm sure it has some technical name, but I don't know what it is.

~KarenR Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (17:26) #213

some are replaced by that rectangle with the broken up picture in the upper left corner if you know what I mean Yes, I know what you mean. The technical name for that image is "should be a pic here"!! ;-D When that appears, it usually means that something is wrong with the url or the image is no longer residing at that address.

~MarciaH Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (18:12) #214

Don't forget to put the "url" quotes around the url...I did that twice because you used to get away with not putting them in when you post a picture in Drool. Now I do it as a habit wherever I am posting pix. (Don't feel bad, it even happened to Terry yesterday!)

~MarciaH Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (18:15) #215

(Karen)The technical name for that image is "should be a pic here"!! Techno-jargon is such a turn-on, especially when they are so imaginative with the name - like this one. =P *lol*

~patas Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (18:37) #216

I want to try something:

~patas Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (18:43) #217

Yes! It worked!

~baine Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (19:59) #218

img src="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4144/values/Rv4.jpg"

~baine Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (20:00) #219

~baine Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (20:05) #220

~patas Sat, Nov 6, 1999 (04:01) #221

~EileenG Tue, Nov 9, 1999 (13:34) #222

Testing, testing, 123!

~MarciaH Thu, Nov 11, 1999 (23:04) #223

Eileen, are you joining the Firth Page Fanciers??? Yippee!

~MarciaH Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (18:53) #224

GEO

~MarciaH Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (23:29) #225

Never try this when your IO is trying to drag you out the door...

~MarciaH Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (23:30) #226

GEO

~MarciaH Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (23:32) #227

Yahoo!!! Yippee!!! I dood it!!!

~KarenR Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (23:34) #228

Hey, there's a question for you on keepsakes. :)

~MarciaH Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (23:50) #229

Thanks - going (was away for a while fixing seats for the tournament - coming to you on spring cam this weekend!!!

~MarciaH Tue, Nov 23, 1999 (23:52) #230

~KJArt Sat, Dec 11, 1999 (22:14) #231

Testing...

~KJArt Sat, Dec 11, 1999 (22:15) #232

The source is animated but this isn't. Hmmmmmmmm

~MarciaH Sat, Dec 11, 1999 (22:26) #233

I is animated for me!!! Really cute.

~Tracy Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (05:38) #234

Testing this italics mallarkey

~Tracy Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (05:39) #235

COOL!

~Tracy Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (06:02) #236

Testing this italics mallarkey GIF?

~Tracy Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (06:04) #237

Testing this italics mallarkey GIF?

~Tracy Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (06:06) #238

Testing this italics mallarkey GIF?

~Tracy Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (06:08) #239

Testing this italics mallarkey GIF?

~Tracy Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (06:10) #240

Oh I give up I'm clearly destined to only ever use italics !!

~KarenR Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (08:05) #241

To make that or any image work: (1) eliminate space after first pointy bracket; spacing always counts (2) first part of code is "img" not "imc" (3) MOST IMPORTANT: your url must end in .gif or .jpg NEVER, NEVER .html, which would try to bring up a whole webpage (4) To get the image, right click on it and scroll down to the "Copy Image Location" option, then you can paste here. Got it? :-)

~lafn Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (10:37) #242

Karen, don't forget to tell them about Vroom or whatever that domain is that will not allow images to be transferred. Meluchie has some of her stuff on it

~lafn Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (10:40) #243

And I can't seem to make Explorer4. to work taking images either. Yapp is definitely anti-Gates! Netscape is the easiest.

~KarenR Sun, Feb 27, 2000 (10:51) #244

One step at a time...

~patas Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (03:01) #245

(Evelyn)Karen, don't forget to tell them about Vroom It is Xoom, actually. Also, I think the url must be enclosed in inverted comas, am I right? It would have to be: imc src="http://www.animfactory.com/whatever.gif", with the whole thing now enclosed in the pointed brackets.

~KarenR Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (07:42) #246

Gi: Yes, how did I miss that the quotation marks. Thank you. A must, Tracy.

~KarenR Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (07:43) #247

Not only Xoom, but also Tripod, doesn't allow its content to be viewed from outside its home space.

~EileenG Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (12:50) #248

Actually, I posted loads of pics in the past without quote marks around the URL. Seemed to work, but agree it is best to avoid possible frustration and use 'em. Evelyn's right, you can't do this with IE 4 (or 5, as I use). Image URL's don't show up and there's no 'copy img location' choice on the drop-down menu. Early on, I tried following Anne's directions from her HTML guide but it didn't work. Stick to Netscape.

~patas Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (13:06) #249

Eileen, thanks for the advice. I've been tempted to forgo Netscape for IE (a few Mb less in my hard drive), especially since they now look so similar, but that's a good reason not to :-)

~Tracy Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (13:36) #250

Ok you chaps thanks for all your advice I think I've got it..here goes

~Tracy Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (13:37) #251

Yahoooooooo!!

~patas Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (13:46) #252

Well done, Tracy!

~KarenR Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (14:06) #253

There you go! Now, you've got the hang of it and of italics. Just no blankety-blank blinking text, please. ;-)

~Tracy Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (14:09) #254

no blankety-blank blinking text, please I wouldn't know how even if I wanted to ;-D

~EileenG Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (14:10) #255

Karen, don't forget to give Tracy her 'get out of jail free' cards in case she forgets to close the tags...as do the rest of us...

~KarenR Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (14:14) #256

That's right. I'll banish you to Siberia or worse for leaving the closing tags off. (Let that put the fear of God into you) Must be off to strangle a stupid brokerage office employee or two like poor little Miles. ;-)

~lafn Mon, Feb 28, 2000 (17:45) #257

Great goin, Tracy. There's no stopping you now!! Isn't it fun?

~patas Tue, Feb 29, 2000 (12:22) #258

(Tracy)no blankety-blank blinking text, please I wouldn't know how even if I wanted to ;-D Ah, but if you go to http://www.spring.net/~anneh/toota.html you'll find out...

~KarenR Tue, Feb 29, 2000 (13:47) #259

Ha!! That url isn't good anymore...all the better for keeping that obnoxious coding hidden. ;-)

~patas Tue, Feb 29, 2000 (13:52) #260

Too bad! I must hunt for its new location again :-(

~lafn Tue, Feb 29, 2000 (15:28) #261

~KarenR Tue, Feb 29, 2000 (22:31) #262

Poof! *blowing on nails* I like my powers here. ;-)

~Moon Wed, Mar 1, 2000 (07:25) #263

*You are worthy*, as Wayne and Darth say. ;-)

~sprin5 Wed, Mar 1, 2000 (09:00) #264

I can help anyone set up a new location for their old stuff, but today is the last day the old server will be up and running. So get your requests in today and save anything you want off the old server.

~lafn Wed, Mar 1, 2000 (09:04) #265

(Karen)Poof! *blowing on nails* I like my powers here. ;-) Huh... You wait....comes the revolution! ;-)

~KarenR Wed, Mar 1, 2000 (09:11) #266

*shivering in my boots* ;-)

~MarciaH Wed, Mar 1, 2000 (12:02) #267

Karen, makes one superior to the lowly posters by having access to rc and making it work...but, Sweetie, always be 'umble...it fools them every time ;)

~KarenR Wed, Mar 1, 2000 (12:12) #268

Aw c'mon, Marcia. You know Evelyn and I are kidding around.

~patas Wed, Mar 1, 2000 (13:25) #269

I have no idea what you ladies are talking about, but frankly, as Rhett Butler would put it... ;-)

~MarciaH Wed, Mar 1, 2000 (14:01) #270

(that makes two of us, Gi...)

~Tracy Sat, Mar 11, 2000 (16:04) #271

Can anyone help with an annoying problem? When I access a few conferences I seem to get all the posts going back to the year dot (notably 80 and 98) which takes eons to display. I have the range setting as Activity in the last 7 days but this doesn't help, strangely 129 works like a dream, any ideas anyone??

~KarenR Sat, Mar 11, 2000 (16:28) #272

Use this setting all/new and you shouldn't have this problem. If you want to see older messages, use the Redisplay box and put in a number to go back, like -30 will get you the past 30 messages. The last 7 days can be affected by something I don't want to discuss for fear of bringing it back. *throwing salt over shoulder and shaking my voodoo doll* ;-)

~Tracy Sat, Mar 11, 2000 (16:38) #273

Thanks for the tip ... I must admit there was something odd about the early messages on the conferences I mentioned but I wouldn't want your voodoo doll to fall apart through the vigorous manhandling or your carpet to decay under mountains of salt so I'll say no more!!

~SBRobinson Fri, Apr 7, 2000 (20:14) #274

~SBRobinson Fri, Apr 7, 2000 (20:47) #275

~SBRobinson Fri, Apr 7, 2000 (20:52) #276

oops, that second section was supposed to posted at 130. *pulling hair in frusteration* that bleach is starting to effect more than just my roots. :-)

~Donna Wed, Apr 12, 2000 (10:35) #277

Topic 98 of 131 [drool]: Colin Firth - Film Discussions PART II Response 704 of 1653: Evelyn (lafn) * Thu, Feb 7, 2036 (05:42) * 5 lines I thought someone would like to know thisabout the above message thread. First it asked for my username and password, it went to the messages which didn't fully load. When I clicked the drool conference it reloaded the main drool conference and made it all new again! Thanks Donna

~KarenR Wed, Apr 12, 2000 (11:15) #278

I don't understand what happened, Donna.

~KJArt Fri, Apr 21, 2000 (16:44) #279

An experiment. 'Scuse' (tto ambitious, too many variables...) Advice to the wise... Don't get too excited celebrating the delights of this Vernal Season. One can overdo having a joyous.... Next thing you know you'll be running out of... duckies, bunnies, and chickies... Kinda spoils the symbolism don't it?... Happy Easter/Spring to All anyway!

~Tracy Sat, May 6, 2000 (07:01) #280

testing

~fitzwd Fri, May 12, 2000 (12:13) #281

test

~KJArt Sun, May 14, 2000 (18:52) #282

To All you Mommies Out There ... HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! ... And for good measure ... Love, KJ

~fitzwd Wed, May 24, 2000 (20:55) #283

test

~fitzwd Thu, Jun 1, 2000 (15:59) #284

test

~fitzwd Fri, Jun 2, 2000 (17:46) #285

test

~fitzwd Fri, Jun 2, 2000 (17:59) #286

test

~Tracy Sun, Jun 4, 2000 (15:08) #287

~Tracy Sun, Jun 4, 2000 (15:10) #288

~KJArt Wed, Jun 7, 2000 (22:54) #289

~KJArt Wed, Jun 7, 2000 (22:56) #290

~KJArt Wed, Jun 7, 2000 (23:02) #291

~KJArt Wed, Jun 7, 2000 (23:02) #292

test

~KJArt Wed, Jun 7, 2000 (23:03) #293

~KJArt Wed, Jun 7, 2000 (23:04) #294

test

~KJArt Wed, Jun 7, 2000 (23:06) #295

testy

~KJArt Wed, Jun 7, 2000 (23:06) #296

Aaarrrgh!!!

~KJArt Sat, Jun 10, 2000 (16:22) #297

Thank you for erasing all that. Now you must explain why it happened. I think I'll e-mail, you, Karen, once I get my head together. KJ

~SadieR Wed, Jun 14, 2000 (11:40) #298

test

~KarenR Thu, Jun 15, 2000 (16:50) #299

~MarciaH Thu, Jun 15, 2000 (17:23) #300

*sigh*.........not as cute or as hairy as the one I hoped to see, but only I could see him attired like this and I would have to kill you all *grin*