I initially started my blog on MySpace. Remember MySpace?
It was 2006, and I wanted to blog. I had no idea what I was doing. People were doing all sorts of things to "their space", and I wished I knew how to do any of that.
At around this time, I was covering some computer class, and on the board the teacher had left a link to a thing called HTML Goodies. Curious, I checked it out. I found the tutorials for beginners, and I worked through those. (I just looked. It still exists! But the links appear to be broken 😢) I think I did a couple a day until I completed the seven.
That was enough information for me to blunder about. I was able to personalize my MySpace page and my blog. At least, for a little while.
Alas, the MySpace blog was buggy. I'd write out a whole post, go to publish it online, and *poof* it would vanish. Not saved anywhere. I'd have to start from scratch.
I'm not sure how many times it did that, but at some point, I was done. And that's when I joined Blogger.
The point of this story is that I came to Blogger knowing a couple HTML tricks, and they've helped. If something isn't quite looking right, I will go into the HTML part and I can usually adjust something there to make it work.
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| where to find the switch to HTML |
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| then highlight "HTML view" |
A couple weeks ago, someone on Bluesky created a how-to "book" on creating a website (aimed at artists and creatives). (Here: Let's Make a Website) It looks like the stuff that was on the HTML Goodies tutorials are in chapter 4. Basically, that started with how to add space, make things bold/italic/underlined, and how to add hyperlinks.
The cool thing about knowing that is that you can actually use those in Blogger comments, too. (In case you didn't know how to do that.) So, if you wanted to add a link back to your blog in your comment, you could.
To make something bold/italic/underlined, you surround the text with tags. A tag is something surrounded with the carrots (< tag >). You begin what you want adjusted with the tag, then you end with a / (< /tag >). It's really easy to remember what to use for the tags, too. Bold = b, italic = i, underline = u.
And if you want to add a link, it's only a little more complicated.
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It is critical that you use the carrots and the quotation marks. Otherwise it won't work.
For those of you who this is new to, I challenge you to use something of this in your comment. Underline something. Or make something bold. And include a link back to your blog.
I need to dig into this and finally figure out how to change the font of my title. I have tried SO many things, to no avail!
ReplyDeleteIf you can get into the code for your header (which is doable, but I couldn't tell you how without blundering about for a while), the title will have tags around it with the name of the font. If you change that name to the font name you want, it should just do it.
DeleteI'd rather go by the easy way of posting.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying but!
Yeah, it is easier to not worry about the HTML of it all. But sometimes you just have to dig into it if things aren't appearing as you'd wish.
DeleteWhat attracted me to HTML was the "miracle":
ReplyDeleteI could write something in Bangalore and anyone in the world could read it, if I shared the weblink!
Wow!
How I could make letters bold, and italics, etc was too captivating!
Soon, Web 2.0 came along ... And , I too tried my hand at MySpace, and also on LiveJournal.
Yes, basic knowledge of HTML is always helpful.
-- Pradeep / Time and Tide
I remember MySpace. I was the parent of two teens who posted there. Let’s just say it was not my favorite place.
ReplyDeleteYeah, teens and MySpace was a whole thing. But it did teach some good computer skills.
DeleteMyspace! Yes I used to use that too. I remember copying html to make things like hearts drop on my Myspace account too.
ReplyDeleteI think MySpace was popular when my son was in high school and I don't even know if he ever had an account. So, what I don't understand is how I access the code in comments so I can use html. I know how to switch to html on my own blog, but I've only used it to insert linky codes, which are already in html. Do I just use an html tag in comments and it magically will underline, or whatever? I was curious about html years ago when I first went online (1997) but never really bothered with it.
ReplyDeleteIn the comments, you can just insert the tags and it'll work. The comments are set up to accept limited HTML (bold, underline, italics, links). I know, it was weird the first time I tried it.
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