Quote: scmrak

Barb, I just looked at the html source for your page-o'-links, and every one of them is already formatted correctly. So if you don't mess up adding a new link, there shouldn't be any problem at all.

Here are the instructions:

1) Type your sentence with the name of the review. Put a period after it: My own review about a mustard fit for a king Moutarde De Meaux Pommery.
2) highlight the words Moutarde De Meaux Pommery with your mouse. Do NOT highlight the period (double-click on the first word and then drag the mouse over the second and third - it'll stop before the period).
3) after you have highlighted the word(s) you wnat to show as a link, click the little chain button. A little new window will pop up (If you do not see a popup window, you cannot go any futher until you set your popup blocker to allow popups from epinions.com)
4) paste the URL - http://www.epinions.com/review/Moutarde_De_Meaux_Pommery/content_437702659716 - in the box on the popup. You do not need to put HTML tags or anything else in the box, just the URL. Then click the "insert" button
5) voila

The important thing is to make certain that you don't include the period in the tag. That way, you will not run into the probblem of having a line break inside the link tags. Now as for italicizing the titles... try italicizing first and then adding the link without "unhighlighting" the text in between steps.

As long as you don't change anything in the list of existing reviews, you ought to have no problems adding new ones. I'd add any new ones at the end of the list, if I were you.

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Quote: phungus

I guess I will chime in on here...

I write my reviews in Word 2007, then I cut and paste them into Notepad. THEN I highlight them all again (from Notepad) and cut and paste into the WTF editor.

I do this to get rid all all the dumb extra formatting that Word tacks onto documents. Going from Word to Notepad and then from Notepad to the web should make it nothing but text.

However, it puts these extra spaces in between my paragraphs. I have to go back through every paragraph to get rid of all the extra white space, otherwise it looks like something ...Tom...wrote!

Quote: ifif1938

The only thing is that it is the whole link, showing the www. blah blah blah and not the short neat link...

Quote: scmrak

That being said, I agree that someone, somewhere should have provided a brief introduction to how to use the GUI interface beyond what's on the member center. So I did.

Quote: befus

Of course, just wait...I'll finally get used to this, and the old editor will come back. Hee hee.

Quote: scmrak

I'm sorry, Marie, but "the new way of doing links" is the way almost every GUI interface on the planet "does links." You highlight the text, click the link button, and a box pops up that lets you paste or type in the URL. What is so unlikeable about that? It's sure a heckuva lot easier than having to type in nnn for every link, isn't it?

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rex

Quote: scmrak

Actually, you don't have to paste in the entire URL if you are linking to anywhere in the epinions domain. You can leave off everything that your page-o'links and the new URL have in common (though only at the left end). Say, your page-o'links is

http://www.epinions.com/Joes_Crab_Shack/reviews/content_1234567890 -- and your target review is
http://www.epinions.com/McDonalds/reviews/content_123456213

You don't have to put in that part of the URL that is common to both. Leave out the http://www.epinions.com (you'll have to include the /, though). In reality, if you put the whole URL in the html parser takes out the common part for you anyway, so it's no big deal.

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rex

Quote: ifif1938

this is what is left after I took out the other stuff

/content_443509345924 and its still a link, it didn't come up as the movie name, Chariots of fire, they way the old links did, so I just added the name at the end of the 4...

I'm just glad I can edit that review with messing it up so I can add reviews when they are written...:)

Quote: scmrak

There's your problem, Marie:

• You don't need to paste HTML code anywhere in the WYSIWYG editor
• All that goes in blank on the "create-a-link" popup box is the URL.
• The editor puts all HTML tags in for you.

Not having to put in the HTML code is the whole point of the new editor.

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rex

Quote: scmrak

Beth, I don't know that there really is a learning curve. The procedure for creating links is a graphic user interface (GUI) standard, right down to the little chain icon. Gmail, hotmail, and yahoo mail have all used it for years. MS Word uses a version of it. The sites where most of us blog use it (I'm on Wordpress - it's there). Wikipedia's edit function uses it (although with a different icon). The competition - v1eWπ10nts•c0m - uses exactly the same procedure, right down to the icon. I'm flabbergasted that more people aren't already familiar with the procedure from having experienced it in any of a dozen other common settings.

That being said, I agree that someone, somewhere should have provided a brief introduction to how to use the GUI interface beyond what's on the member center. So I did.

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rex

Quote: befus

And I appreciate that and all the help you've provided on this thread too.

I guess I should have been more specific. It's a learning curve for me. I never did HTML tags before writing for Epinions, so everything I've learned about them, I've learned here. I blog at blogger, which accepts tags just the way I've gotten used to writing them here. The bigger learning curve for me is not learning to do them this way (which I understand must be the standard way to do them) but the simple fact that I invested a lot of time in energy in learning to do them another way. I guess my mental agility isn't what it used to be before I hit 40. :-) So I'm just going to have to be patient with myself while I get into new HTML habits.

Of course, just wait...I'll finally get used to this, and the old editor will come back. Hee hee.

Quote: sleeper54

If you view source you can see the actual code:

/content_443509345924 Chariots of Fire



Barbara...

All you need to do to 'tidy it up' is substitute the 'Chariots of Fire' text (which is outside the link tag) for the /content... info.


I would say it should be easy . . .but you are continually disproving that notion. ...:minism:...



...tom...
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Quote: dragonfire88

I have a couple of quick questions just to clarify for myself in case I run into this problem at some point.
Did you mean the /content after the >? The second time /content is in that link? And should < /a> (I had to add the extra space to get that to show up) follow after Chariots of Fire?

Quote: divad23

What a clusterfrak this site has turned out to be in recent years.

Quote: divad23

--snip--

What a clusterfrak this site has turned out to be in recent years.

Quote: shopaholic_man

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shopaholic - who notes that it is much easier to type with the straight jacket OFF, and also wonders why the old rules still apply on the message board

Quote: dragonfire88

It just takes me longer since I had a list of urls with the coding for the links already done that I would use to copy and paste in the link when I needed it.

Quote: divad23

This is absolutely freaking unbelievable. It doesn't allow a line break within a bold or italics tag under ANY circumstances.