John Furie Zacharias
Location: Florida
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 Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: Re: Any way to add a .gif to my "Contact me" form? |
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| AlexandraF wrote: | | Anyone? Im terrified to modify my "main" blog section.. is there any way to do this without completely botching it? |
Yes. Personally, I keep backup copies of all of the Layout & Design elements of all of my blogs.
If you are using a PC, simply copy the code from Blogdrive to a plain, unformatted, NOTEPAD text file on your own PC. If you use Apple/Mac, same concept. Just make sure the text file is unformatted (MSWORD etc will not work)
So as an example:
Make a beingalexus folder on your PC.
On Blogdrive, go to Layout & Design.
Click "Edit Side Section."
The pop-up editor will appear with whatever HTML code is there, if any.
Select ALL of the text. Copy it.
Open a new .TXT file in your beingalexus folder.
Paste the text into it.
Save it with a helpful name like "side_section10-11-08.txt"
Now you can fiddle with that side_section to your heart's content, safe in the knowledge that if you screw it all up, you need only to go to your backup file to restore the original version.
Select all, copy and paste are ctrl-a, ctrl-c, and ctrl-v respectively in most text editors. Although the instructions above seem long and tedious, I don't assume someone reading this in the future has too much experience, so I try to be specific.
It only takes 30 seconds to make a backup file for any of the Layout and Design elements of your Blogdrive blog, once you know why you're doing it and how to do it.
| AlexandraF wrote: | What about:
On my "comments" section.. any way to add a .gif there? |
On your Layout & Design page, you'll see a link named "COMMENTS PAGE EDIT" near the bottom. Click that.
You'll be given an editor with the HTML code of your comments page. Make a backup copy in your beingalexus folder on your computer. Then, edit your comments page on Blogdrive.
To add an image somewhere in that document, the basic HTML code is | Code: | | <IMG SRC="http://beingalexus.blogdrive.com/images/pizza.jpg"> |
Scroll to the bottom of this comments page. You'll see where I added three small GIF images on it. The line of HTML, if you view source:
| Code: | <img alt=" Powered by Blogdrive " src="http://www.blogdrive.com/images/bd4.gif">
... blah blah blah |
Changing your contact form from the handy default one provided by Blogdrive would involve you authoring a new one, uploading it, and replacing the [contact] layout tag with a link to your new HTML document. Since I have never bothered doing this, I can't say if Blogdrive would process it correctly.
If you paste HTML from one of your backup text files into a Blogdrive editor, make certain that "word wrap" is off before you paste it.
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