Is there any easy way of finding the stuff we ourselves have posted? I'm sorry if I'm being fail. There seem to be a lot of toolbars and none of them saying 'Jenny that stuff you want is here' is hard for revision-frazzled brains.
BSR said mention it here: I think the compose tips should tell you how to add pictures to pages if such a thing is possible. ulrich did it the Gazebo so I was wondering whether it is. My html knowledge only allows me to copy and paste at present so the idea of going to a website to learn html seems a bit low gain, high confusion and I bet everyone would like to load on pictures if it were do-able.
It never seems to think anything does, even when Pyramid's character sheet and oneiros S:PI character page definitely do, for example. Is there some way of updating the links page, because I think it might be easier than skimming all the way down to seek out the link.
changing the source (src) to the image you want to show. AFAIK, you can't upload an image directly, it has to exist on the internet already. You can change the display size by adjusting "width".
If you want to center the image you have to do a lot of phaff. Why they deprecated align=center I just don't know.
If you want your table to go more across, just bung more things (tds) into a single row (tr), effectively making more columns. Just make sure you have the same number of tds in every tr.
Note the "Abilities" row: I specify that it should take up 3 columns (colspan=3), be center justified (style="text-align: center") and with "border-bottom" I have a border that is 1 pixel wide (1px), dotted ("dotted", duh) and black ("#000", which is shorthand for #000000).
ulrich's stuff will work, you don't need all the style stuff - i don't bother with that. plus that requires full html input, whereas you can do the basic table stuff; table row <tr>, table division <td> in our normal input.
there is a way to upload them, and that should indeed be added to our user guide as soon as i remember how to do it.
the rest of this stuff is just knowing html, and there are lots of good websites for that. i'm sure blackrat knew agood one, and was going to link to it somewhere.
1. Finding Stuff - I don't think there is currently. You can try searching for your username in the standard search page, but I accept that's not ideal. You can also "Subscribe" to all content by a particular user (e.g. yourself), as well as to various other categories of things, by managing your subscriptions in your account. That's more to be notified of changes rather than to find existing stuff, but it might help if you explore it a bit. I'll try and make a link to content by user - we have the technology so it's just a question of time...
2. Pictures - I'm afraid this is just a question of using HTML, sorry. We certainly don't have the facility to add a full-scale page editor into our framework, nor would I trust them to work even if we did. However, they're no more tricky to add using HTML than they were on the Gazebo - the code syntax is very similar indeed. (See later for more on HTML.)
2. a. Uploading images - Ulrich, all images in HTML pages have to be specified via a link to an image file that's already on the web. However, WwW *does* have the capability to upload images which will allow you to do that - i.e. to upload them onto a page and then reference them in the HTML. Use the "File Attachments" section of the edit page to upload them, and then you'll need to look at them to determine the link location.
3. "What links here" - This was just an option I saw and thought it might be amusing so I turned it on. If it's broken I'll look into it, but I don't think it's that high a priority as it's not all that useful really. (Anyone who disagrees should let me know though!) So that won't be top of my list.
4. Tables - Ulrich's explanation seems to have covered everything. Let me know if you need anything else!
5. HTML in general - There was a good tutorial on annabella.net, but that seems to have disappeared :-( However, if you Google for "HTML tutorial" or similar you'll find lots of very similar things. W3schools has good tutorials on all things webby - see http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp for their HTML one. Even if the tutorial doesn't suit, their reference section is extremely good.
Alternatively, you could get an HTML editor for your computer, build it using their nice graphical interface, and then copy the relevant bits (only!) of the resulting HTML code into the page. I think BSR has done this...? I don't know what HTML editors are available for free, though.
I seem to have found a page with me stuff on - yey. I can't see any place when editing a page, or on my profile (except for profile picture) to upload images though...
Oh and pictures
BSR said mention it here: I think the compose tips should tell you how to add pictures to pages if such a thing is possible. ulrich did it the Gazebo so I was wondering whether it is. My html knowledge only allows me to copy and paste at present so the idea of going to a website to learn html seems a bit low gain, high confusion and I bet everyone would like to load on pictures if it were do-able.
Oh and also 'what links here'
It never seems to think anything does, even when Pyramid's character sheet and oneiros S:PI character page definitely do, for example. Is there some way of updating the links page, because I think it might be easier than skimming all the way down to seek out the link.
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...I can't delete this post... *pretends*
Anyway, I love you ulrich. http://www.worldswithinworlds.co.uk/node/218 lunar sheets clearly need pictures. Wooooo!
displaying pictures using html
You can link to an image by changing the "Input form" to "Full HTML" and writing the following:
changing the source (src) to the image you want to show. AFAIK, you can't upload an image directly, it has to exist on the internet already. You can change the display size by adjusting "width".
If you want to center the image you have to do a lot of phaff. Why they deprecated align=center I just don't know.
Another one - tables
I used the compose tips but I can only work out how to make my table go down, not across like BSRs does.
E.g. mine:
http://www.worldswithinworlds.co.uk/characters/pyramid and his http://www.worldswithinworlds.co.uk/characters/derennai
Any ideas? Down would take up an awful lot of room and his is so perty...
If it helps I currently have:
< table > < tr >< th >Physical< /th >< /tr >< tr >< td >Strength 2 (4xp)< /td >< /tr > < tr >< td >Dex 5< /td >< /tr > < tr >< td >Stamina 2 (4xp)< /td >< /tr > etc etc < /table >
I is an irritant, but I don't want everyone to have sexier pages than mine!!!
If you want your table to go
If you want your table to go more across, just bung more things (tds) into a single row (tr), effectively making more columns. Just make sure you have the same number of tds in every tr.
e.g.
<table> <tr> <th>Physical</th><th>Social</th><th>Mental</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Strength 2 (4xp)</td><td>Charisma X</td><td>Wits X</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Dexterity X</td><td>Manipulation X</td><td>Intelligence X</td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan=3 style="text-align:center; border-bottom: 1px dotted #000">Abilities</th> </tr> </table>.. will give you:
Note the "Abilities" row: I specify that it should take up 3 columns (colspan=3), be center justified (style="text-align: center") and with "border-bottom" I have a border that is 1 pixel wide (1px), dotted ("dotted", duh) and black ("#000", which is shorthand for #000000).
-- gurU
Nice and simple
ulrich's stuff will work, you don't need all the style stuff - i don't bother with that. plus that requires full html input, whereas you can do the basic table stuff; table row <tr>, table division <td> in our normal input.
images
there is a way to upload them, and that should indeed be added to our user guide as soon as i remember how to do it.
the rest of this stuff is just knowing html, and there are lots of good websites for that. i'm sure blackrat knew agood one, and was going to link to it somewhere.
Some Answers
1. Finding Stuff - I don't think there is currently. You can try searching for your username in the standard search page, but I accept that's not ideal. You can also "Subscribe" to all content by a particular user (e.g. yourself), as well as to various other categories of things, by managing your subscriptions in your account. That's more to be notified of changes rather than to find existing stuff, but it might help if you explore it a bit. I'll try and make a link to content by user - we have the technology so it's just a question of time...
2. Pictures - I'm afraid this is just a question of using HTML, sorry. We certainly don't have the facility to add a full-scale page editor into our framework, nor would I trust them to work even if we did. However, they're no more tricky to add using HTML than they were on the Gazebo - the code syntax is very similar indeed. (See later for more on HTML.)
2. a. Uploading images - Ulrich, all images in HTML pages have to be specified via a link to an image file that's already on the web. However, WwW *does* have the capability to upload images which will allow you to do that - i.e. to upload them onto a page and then reference them in the HTML. Use the "File Attachments" section of the edit page to upload them, and then you'll need to look at them to determine the link location.
3. "What links here" - This was just an option I saw and thought it might be amusing so I turned it on. If it's broken I'll look into it, but I don't think it's that high a priority as it's not all that useful really. (Anyone who disagrees should let me know though!) So that won't be top of my list.
4. Tables - Ulrich's explanation seems to have covered everything. Let me know if you need anything else!
5. HTML in general - There was a good tutorial on annabella.net, but that seems to have disappeared :-( However, if you Google for "HTML tutorial" or similar you'll find lots of very similar things. W3schools has good tutorials on all things webby - see http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp for their HTML one. Even if the tutorial doesn't suit, their reference section is extremely good.
Alternatively, you could get an HTML editor for your computer, build it using their nice graphical interface, and then copy the relevant bits (only!) of the resulting HTML code into the page. I think BSR has done this...? I don't know what HTML editors are available for free, though.
HTH,
'rat
Editor
I did have a copy of dreamweaver, but it was only temporary. I wish I could find a proper one that I could continue to use.
I also edited BRs post to remove the term infillionty. Cos it is not a word. Or a concept. And he only does it to annoy me. :-P
Many
:)
(oh and thank you all)
I seem to have found a page with me stuff on - yey. I can't see any place when editing a page, or on my profile (except for profile picture) to upload images though...