Eric's Blog

You can link to anything, but be careful. In this case you linked to something on your c: drive. That works fine for you, but I don't have that file on my c: drive. That's where the internet comes in. If you have some space somewhere (and you must, because you've been posting pictures on your blog) then you can put things there and link to them. Also try to avoid having file names and folder names with spaces in them.

The mailto tag is another neat tag because it automatically allows people to click on a link and start an e-mail to you. Uncle Jeb was amazed when I did my first web page and had an e-mail link. He asked me "How did you tell my e-mail software to start up and put your e-mail address in the To: field?" It was just an A HREF="mailto:" tag with my e-mail address; I didn't need to know what software he used to write e-mail.

Ordered lists are much more powerful than the guide tells you. If you write the tag OL TYPE=A then you will get a list of A. B. C. instead of 1. 2. 3. You can do other types too: a for lower case, I for roman numerals! i for lower case roman numerals. So you can do any kind of outline. And you can use OL TYPE=a START=3 to start at c. instead of a. I wish Microsoft Word were that easy.

You're doing great on learning HTML! Keep it up. Some of the stuff on that guide is outdated like STRONG, EM, CITE, etc. Really, even B for bold and I for italic are outdated (replaced by styles), but they always work and are much easier than styles.

You can upload files you want to share with others to your blog directory. Kelly and Danny both do this when they have an important project due at school and they don't have a floppy to bring it in. (4 out of 5 of the computers in our house no longer have floppy drives.) See Life Cycle of A Seed as an example.

Use the Upload File button in MovableType. It will see that you are not uploading a picture (if it is not a jpg, gif, etc.) and only offer to create a link for you. But really only do this with papers or projects that you want to share or look at yourself years down the road.

I was just making a Mailto link when you posted. I post pictures on my blog using the upload file option that comes with movable type. I dont know if mindspring gives you space or not, I'll have to ask dad.

above is a link I made to email me.

You must have a bold or strong tag that you didn't close and it is making everything that follows it, including the comments appear in bold.

If you are doing links to different parts of the page, you don't need to include the filename, just #This is the heading. Again, it's best to leave spaces out. I use local references like that to make an alphabetical index of a long page of consultant companies:

http://www.dot.state.ga.us/dot/preconstruction/consultantdesign/byfirm/index.html

And I use nested unordered lists to make a roster of the people at work (with mailto's):

http://www.dot.state.ga.us/dot/preconstruction/consultantdesign/roster.shtml

But that page has a bunch of junk added to the beginning to make the search block and other stuff in the header.

Hey you're right! I'll fix it.