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It will look like this .
Mailto with a Subject Line
Email Annie
Annie is seven years old now. We made the Annie image on September 11th. She was too young to know what was happening. She would love to get an email at her new email address. She hasn't seen the pictures of herself on the Web so you might include one or tell her a little bit about where you live. Annie lives in California.
At Sugar-n-Spicy we found our original Annie. Thanks for keeping her safe Illana.
It would be a nice surprise for Annie to get an email from you. Email Annie and tell her where you are from. If you've ever posted her picture or wondered who that little girl was let her know. Thanks all.
Mailto with a Subject Line
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Email Annie
Psst, tell a friend.
Friday: Two Degrees of Blog
Jen Martinez who we link to via the
Quija Board
links to Korea - Cold War Families of the Missing a site made by the families of the men who went to the Forgotten War -- Korea -- and have yet to return or be accounted for.
The Scribbler
Made with The Scribbler. A free online illustration toy. Scribble some lines and watch it grow. Link found at PunkClown.
Best of the Scribbler
FridayFishWrap made a cool cat.
Joel Self Portrait
The Doc made a hawk.
Worst of the Scribbler
C'mon. We need to see some that didn't turn out so well. Or, are you all artists?
More Scribbler Illustrations
We found another Scribble at OneGoodMove and yet another at
2flower. And that fast we find another at The Other Side.
There's an insect flying in from ExclamationMark while loowho put a border around her scribble.
UPDATE: TACK-O-RAMA IS GROWING
Tack-O-Rama Clip Art
We can all use 100% Free Clip Art and the selection at Tack-o-Rama is expanding. We copied this image and gave it a transparent background so that the glow filter could be applied.
Add style="filter:glow(color=maroon)"
to the IMG
tag to make the edges glow.
Copy and paste (or type) this in your Blog or Web page.
It will look like this.
The glow filter can be applied to transparent images or text. The Color Chart has more named colors. You can change the color maroon
to any color in the chart. We are using the color names chocolate, salmon, orange, and powderblue
.
It's Friday!
Site Stats
We turned the site statistics on even though it's not always a pretty picture. Some of the popular pages at Mandarin are not pages that we want to be popular. They had a purpose at one time and still do for some but that's not easy to measure. Did the search engine point the visitor to the right place?
ELVIS DID EVERYTHING
Who's On?
That is the dilemma. We can watch what pages folks are visiting in real time. So, do we spiff up (spellchecker said "spoof up") those old pages or just let them be. Sitemeter lets you click on Who's On? and right now it looks something like this.
2002_12_01_archive.html
banner.html
mandarin-tools.html
gator.html
fadejs.html
blogger.html
2003_04_01_archive.html
daniel1.html
Entry Pages
If you use sitemeter you might not want to pay a lot of attention to the Entry Pages rankings. We had our meter turned on for only a couple of pages and there is no way it could have recalculated the rankings but it did. It appears to use old numbers.
Visits
If you track the number of unique visitors and don't like the counts then you might be pleasantly surprised to learn that it doesn't count all of your unique visitors. It simply doesn't load for every single visit.
Why that page?
Why do so many visitors land at 2002_12_01_archive.html? Sitemeter helps us there. They are searching for Elvis
Why?
Because...
ELVIS DID EVERYTHING
div Bordersspan Colors
The Elvis centered box with a border is made with the DIV
while the color change inside the bordered box is done with the SPAN
. Copy and paste (or type) this code in your Blog or Web page.
It will look like this.
ELVIS DID EVERYTHING
This code works best when you listen to Elvis. We know that you never click the listen to Elvis but if you do this page will make a lot more sense. Listen to the words...
Two Degrees of Blog
Our resident doctor Doc Shazam links to Grunt Doc, another doctor. Now we have linked to both for
Two Degrees of Blog. Did we get that right Doc, or do we need another brain scan?
One more try. Netlawblog who we link to via the referrer script links to Kevin O'Keefe who sets up blogs for lawyers (for money).
One more try. Susan at Easy Bakecoven who we link to via the Quija Board links to Of Hills in a rotating list of links.
Image Alignment
Align Left and Align Right Combined
We've been blogging around Top 100 territory and found some good Blogs, but none were better than our regular reads. So here we sit with these coke bottles and thought it might be interesting to recycle them (again). We hardly ever align to the left and to the right at the same time. Let's try it. Here, have a Coke and try it at your place too.
The Coke Code
The Coke code looks like this.
<img src="images/coke.gif"width="50"height="133" align="left" hspace="10"> <img src="images/coke.gif"width="50"height="133" align="right" hspace="0"> YOUR WORDS GO HERE. MAYBE YOU WILL ALIGN IT IN A WAY THAT MAKES MORE SENSE
Copy and Paste
YOUR WORDS GO HERE. MAYBE YOU WILL ALIGN IT IN A WAY THAT MAKES MORE SENSECopy and paste from here (images will insert automatically).
It will look something like this.
YOUR WORDS GO HERE. MAYBE YOU WILL ALIGN IT IN A WAY THAT MAKES MORE SENSEThat was fun, eh? This one might be fun to try with squares or other images.
Steal This Code!
Things You Can Do With Coke
1. Put it in a CSS Bordered Box:Dashed Border
Copy and paste (or type) this in your Blog or Web page.
It will look like this.
A Few Good Tools
BY CHRISTOPHER LOCKE
(December 2003)
"I wasn't going to tell you about this one. I mean, if everybody had it, they'd know about 90% of how I do what I do."
Sometimes help is only a click away. This one helped us yesterday.
Overheard: Psst Sam, don't listen to anything Justin says about us. And Yo Joel you aren't supposed to make it look better than we do.
DOCTYPE
DUCK!
We are fiddling with the DUCKTYPE DOCTYPE today. We can't seem to find one that will render the page "as designed", as if it was designed. Have a great Sunday or Monday.
Watching us clean house...
NEW! Check your document online with CSE HTML Validator Lite. Add this to your site.
Happy Valentine's Day
We found the Family Dollmaker at ChasingDaisy. That's us. No body, just clothes. The Dollmaker lets you add your kids and pets too. It works like MrPicassoHead where you screen print it and then put it in your favorite image making tool (instructions included). We removed the backgrounds to make transparent images.
Lynn has a fun photo theme for National Heart Health and Valentines where you use her Colorizing Tutorial to color something in your black and white snapshot red.
More...
I copyright you
I � you! And in Mozilla it looks like this Shirl -
Susan said
"
The best thing about Mozilla's Firefox is that it makes the web feel faster even over slow connections with their tabs browsing.
On my sadu (slow-ass dial up) I pull up about 8 initial sites and bounce back and forth between them.
"
So we are trying out the tabs feature and the illusion of speed using the tabs in Mozilla is amazing.
For you Baloneydude ...
We nearly missed the Anti-Valentine link that
Mr. Useless left in the comments.
That image is flipped upside down in IE
Broken Link
Michellebell has a broken link like this I love you. It appears that folks without partners are not enjoying this day.
Orkut Testimonial: ACCEPT or DECLINE?
The Bushwacker wrote an incredibly kind, flattering, and touching testimonial for us in Orkut. Wouldn't the epitome of Orkut rudeness be to decline it.
We � you Stu (Stu uses Opera so that's probably a "we copyright you").
ACCEPT or DECLINE?
ACCEPT
Favorite Finger Dances
ALT + F4
Hold down the ALT key and press F4. Not yet! It closes this window. But, it is a favorite finger dance. What key stroke shortcuts do you use?
Overheard:
I would quote him, but I wouldn't know which part to quote.
Mandarin Quija Board |
Listen to Elvis while you read! |
Government Workers
Some of you think we get paid too much, others think we waste time and tax dollars. Government IT professionals in our organization are generally well-trained and work long hours. We are taxpayers too and we do our best to work efficiently.
Should taxpayers have to pay for a safe workplace?
I don't know the answer. But, I'm on my own clock right now having left work in more pain than is tolerable and need to speak up. Quite some time ago a defective cabinet (low bidder) fell and took me down with it. No, I didn't file a Worker's Compensation claim. That bureaucracy isn't worth pursuing if one can avoid it. I had hoped for spinal surgery but the spine is too damaged.
Walking
I use a cane or a wheelchair, and some days no assistive device. Lately I've been able to walk in on my own but the wheelchair is always in the trunk. Today I had to write this email to our Risk Assessment Coordinator.
Dear
This is to confirm that I will not comply with the CHP suggestion that I remain in the building at the top of the stairs in the event that there is a fire that is not a "raging inferno".
A fire can become a raging inferno within minutes. I will roll down the stairs or scoot one stair at a time. The suggestion that anyone stay in a burning building without attempting to exit doesn't make sense.
Regards,
me
Evac Chair
I will purchase my own evac chair and will then go through the process of being denied bringing in special equipment. All requests are denied. Eventually.
Deaf Coworkers
Efforts to get a fire strobe light installed for the deaf failed. So, there are three of us who hunt for our friend when the fire-alarm sounds so that he is not left alone in the building again.
Placard Parking
We never got the extra Handicap parking spaces promised with the "all it takes is some blue spray paint". That was nearly a year ago. This month we are pooling our resources to purchase enough raffle tickets to win the front parking spot reserved for the Employee Association Raffle winner. If we win the parking spot we will share it as needed.
Accessibility is Boring!
Folks don't want to deal with accessibility issues. It makes their job difficult. Employers don't want to deal with Americans with Disablities Act (ADA) requirements, including Governmental agencies.
Even our own Accessibility is Boring! article regarding building accessible Web sites is not complete. I guess it's hard to please everyone.
Especially us.
~|_ (_)\_
FROM THE ARCHIVES
The Chair
GEORGE STRAITThe Chair
(Hank Cochran/Dean Dillion)
Well, excuse me,
but I think you've got my chair.
No, that one's not aken, I don't mind
If you sit here, I'll be glad to share...
� POST UPDATED TUESDAY
Pure Text
You Don't Need Images for this Effect
Y |
CSS, Webdings, and Glow Filters
The following table is done with text only. There are no .jpg or .gif files used here. Text symbols are used to create the images that have the glow filter applied. The original Table Filter art by LooWho inspired us to work with more colors and webdings.
- | b | B |
Y | ( | ~ |
� | � | $ |
The Heart
For now let's try just one.
Y |
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It will look like this.
Y |
You can change the colors to match your place.
Border is silver
Background is black
Heart is red
Glow is hotpink
Read more about Webdings and Text Art.
�
Note: This simple heart can be rendered by specifying the font-family:symbol
. The code looks like this.
Copy and paste (or type) this in your Blog or Web page.
It will look like this.
�Misbehaving
"Misbehaving.net is a weblog about women and technology. It's a celebration of women's contributions to computing; a place to spotlight women's contributions as well point out new opportunities and challenges for women in the computing field."
FLIPPING ORKUTFLIPPING ORKUT
At least when right-wingers rant, there's a point... read more at Paul Katcher.com
It's spreading. Bryk rattled the cage and the bear responded. Why do people have to have opinions? Can't we all just think the same. When Blog world gets crazy we go to the other side where it is always usually safe.
If you came here for the Vertical Flip, here it is. Copy and paste (or type) this in your Blog or Web page.
It might look like this.
FLIPPING ORKUTFLIPPING ORKUT
To Flip ORKUT we used the H3
heading tag. It goes like this.
It will look something like this.
FLIPPING ORKUTFLIPPING ORKUT
Gary flipped the pineapple-upside-down cake that Diane couldn't flip.
The instructions above with the width:50;height:50;filter:flipv():
are defining the size of the image to be flipped. Our image is a square that is 50 pixels wide and 50 pixels high.
Right-click on the image then click the properties
.
The properties tell you that this image is 50 x 50 pixels. Change the width and height to match your image
size (and we'll leave the cooking to Gary).
When the going gets tough...
Copy and paste (or type) this in your Blog or Web page.
It will look like this.
YOUR TEXT GOES HERE. Just keep typing after the image code is inserted. The text will automatically wrap around the image. Change the image nameA9.gif
to any image name in the Square Gallery. No link, no strings, just a bunch of free squares.
What does that code do?
1. Inserts an image named a9.gif2. Aligns the image to the left.
3. Makes your text wrap around the image.
4. Puts space between the text and the image.
The vertical space vspace
is 0. The horizontal space hspace
is 10. The horizontal space keeps the text from bumping up next to the image.
Blogger and other tools sometimes insert a line break <br>
that you can't see. The code should be on one line. Use the delete key to get rid of any stray line breaks.
When the going gets tough...
QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?
How can I...
When I try to ... it doesn't work
Why is my site listed to the right as http://www.thename.com instead of my page title?
What can I do when...
I've been trying to figure out how to ...
Overheard: Of course the invitation to join Orkut is probably in the spirit of "the more the merrier, it'll be fun if everybody joins in."
In contrast, Kalsey Consulting responds to Orkut with "Like with any other new system, rules will begin to emerge that govern the polite use of social networks."
Dude, the rules are in place. It's everything your mother taught you. You either join Orkut and play along with the game or you don't join. It's this weeks toy. It doesn't take charm school or sophisticated social skills. You invite people, people invite you. It's that simple. If you don't join you aren't missing anything.
Get Out of Orkut Free
The Get Out of Orkut Free cards are here.
Colorizing Black and White Photographs
BY LYNN ROCKWELL
"I am by no means a Photoshop wizard! I learned to do things by trial and error, so here's my version of colorization"
This tutorial contributed by Lynn Rockwell continues to be the most popular article here at Mandarin and the folks who use it find the technique works in graphic tools other than Adobe. If you have used Lynn's tutorial we would like to see your results.
Men are from Mars...
Watch NASA TV now!
In the comments one post down
Gary
tells Punkclown
I'm watching NASA, they were talking about rover positions on Mars -- turns out Opportunity is about 2 degrees south of the Equator!
Gary has good links like the Cornell Gallery but we want to know what he is looking at right now. Today. Until he checks in we'll search for the good stuff.
Rover Wallpaper (includes dual monitor size background wallpaper)
Are you sure you want to go to Mars? from NASA is too funny to resist linking.
NASA's Mars Exploration ProgramRight-click to look at NASA's HTML code. What does it take to be a Web Developer at NASA? The pages look just fine. It works. It's all done with tables, the forbidden layout of the Code Gods.
NASA TV I think we're getting closer.
Men are from Mars...
Watch NASA TV now!
Watch NASA TV now! This is NASA TV via the Internet. NASA TV provides real time coverage of Agency activities and missions as well as resource video. We're watching and listening to the live feed now. It seems to switch from a live feed to pre-recorded messages in between. Right now it's just a bunch of people talking in the background seemingly unaware that we are all listening.