How To Create Your Signature With URL Text Links,,

[zzR]

Updated 2011.12.07.

 

Create your own "Signature"

and it will automatically display

at the bottom of all of your posts

in these "thetaobums.com" forums.

 

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- RIGHT-Click on your "User-Name"

in the very top right-hand corner

on This Page Or Any Forum Page.

 

- Select "Open Link In New Tab".

(or "Open Link In New Window".)

in the drop-down menu that appears.

 

That will open your "Viewing Profile" page

in a separate 'tab' (or window),

and will leave this page with these instructions

easily available to you in a separate tab (or window).

 

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The "Viewing Profile" page: - Click the button marked "Edit My Profile".

 

.. on the far-right and near the top of the page;

but under the page-top-header, and just below the Google ads

is a button marked "Edit My Profile".

 

Click "Edit My Profile".

 

 

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"Your Options" page: You are likely already at the proper 'tab' "Profile" by default.

 

If not, click the 'tab' labeled "Profile"

if it is Not already high-lighted

which is one of three tabs "Settings", "Forums", and "Profile"

at the far-left near the top.

 

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Click the left navigation menu choice "Change Signature"

under-neath where "Change Profile Information" is now highlighted.

 

That will open the "Your current Signature" page.

 

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If you want to add URL links

to your signature, use the

"Insert Link" button

that is just above

your text input field window

and is the first button to the right

of the 'smiley' button-image.

 

Edit your signature

until your heart is contented,

and then click the button

"Save Changes".

 

 

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Note: The first few posts which follow below here

no longer apply

because they relate to an earlier version of this post

based on the old Forum set-up that is no longer used.

 

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Edited December 7, 2011 by zzR

[Desert Eagle]

Hello zzR, Thanks for the guide but it didn't work on my original url because it had a space in it.

 

here is the url with space, (links are auto tagged here) it will work if you copy/paste it into the address bar but when i make a link of it in this forum it gives an incomplete link.

 

http://www.meditationexpert.com/Articles/Learning Annex.ppt

 

now here is the link with the space replaced by html code, i copied this link from the file downloader after download.

 

http://www.meditationexpert.com/Articles/L...ing%20Annex.ppt

 

after replacing the link it is now working, but I didn't do this before because I wanted the full link displayed but I'm ok with it now.

 

edit: alright, managed to display the clickable link but I was too preoccupied at that time to make it right (it needed 2 copy and paste operations because I don't know the html code for space) however I'm ok with the description now, more informative.

 

http://www.meditationexpert.com/Articles/Learning Annex.ppt

[zzR]

DE:

 

I am glad to see that you got it worked out.

 

The HTML for a space is..

 

.. (non-breaking space;

but I do not think that would be of any

value to you in your URL creation.

 

This "non-breaking space" also

functions to keep the line from wrapping

at that point.

 

The "%20"is the way a space

is represented in a

website's filename,

or a website folder-name

when those names are used in a URL--

you got that exactly right.

 

Chris Rodgers

[zzR]

Shameless Educational Informational Bump.

 

If you find yourself frowning at my bumping, please respond as such : o ( .

 

: o )

[Desert Eagle]

The HTML for a space is..

 

.. (non-breaking space;

but I do not think that would be of any

value to you in your URL creation.

 

This "non-breaking space" also

functions to keep the line from wrapping

at that point.

 

The "%20"is the way a space

is represented in a

website's filename,

or a website folder-name

when those names are used in a URL--

you got that exactly right.

 

Chris Rodgers

 

Hello zzR,

 

So if the html code for space is   then what is %20 in a web URL? does it belong to another category or language? I'm not too knowledgeable about this so I'd like to know.

 

Thanks

DE

[zzR]

Desert Eagle:

 

I see I inadvertently confused you.

 

The %20 is the way a space is represented in a URL when that URL uses a

file whose name contains a space in that file's name.

 

This is the case with..

http://www.meditationexpert.com/Articles/Learning%20Annex.ppt

 

I bet the file will be found

at its server with the name 'Learning Annex.ppt' (without quotes)

with a space in its name.

 

Additionally, if the file at the server is

in a folder whose name contained a space,

the URL would substitute a %20 for the space

in the folder name too.

 

I hope that is clear now as

I did not originally phrase that well enough.

 

If not, ask again.

 

- Chris Rodgers

Edited June 24, 2010 by zzR

[zzR]

Shameless Educational Bump.

 

Chris.

[zzR]

This is another "Shameless Educational" bump

intended to benefit new users.

 

Peace. Out.

 

- chris

[zzR]

Dear Webmaster:

 

As this topic I started

is in danger of falling off the front page of

"Forum and Tech Support",

and hoping as I can only do

that this information has been and will be

of value to your readership..

 

..this is another shameless educational bump.

 

Let me know if I am irritating you,

and it won't happen again

as I intend to bump it again

next time I am around,

if needed,

and if I live that long. << Likely.

 

Love Chris.

[Desert Eagle]

Hello zzR,

 

So if the html code for space is   then what is %20 in a web URL? does it belong to another category or language? I'm not too knowledgeable about this so I'd like to know.

 

Thanks

DE

 

here it is

 

http://i.imgur.com/aGrtz.png

Edited June 25, 2011 by Desert Eagle

[zzR]

here it is

 

http://i.imgur.com/aGrtz.png

 

Desert Eagle:

 

Just to reiterate, the %20 does represent a blank-space, but this or any other code starting with the % character is only seen in a website address ( http://... ); and that %xx code is substituting for other characters-- as in the example that %20 is substituted for the blank-space since blank-spaces are not allowed per-se in a web address. Web addresses must be a continuous string of characters unbroken by spaces or carriage returns (line-breaks)

 

Code like (remove the spaces between characters below...)

& n b s p ;

...or...

& # 1 6 0 ;

is HTML code used within the 'body' of a webpage.

 

The first example above is a name-reference, and the second is a decimal-reference. They both refer to a single character and are simply two ways of defining the same character.

 

That character, in this case, it is a non-breaking-blank-space.

 

A non-breaking-space is a special blank-spaces in that a non-breaking-space is intended to prevent the two words on either side of it from being broken apart at the end of a line-- or in other words they will not be automatically 'wrapped'/ separated in the middle of the two words if they run out of room together at the end of a line.

 

In any case, I appreciate your posting the image; particularly since you have now inspired me to do what I would have liked to years ago-- namely gather the full list of 65536 decimal number character references for my reference.

 

I could not find a list, so I made my own list of 65,536 items and posted it at my website at ...

 

HTML Character Entities Decimal-Number Encoding Reference Lists

 

HTML character decimal references

 

http://www.great-grandma.com/website-building-information/html-character-entities-decimal-number-encoding-reference-lists

 

My favorites are (remove the spaces between characters below...)

& # 9 9 9 2 ; ✈

 

and

 

& # 9 9 9 6 ; ✌

 

 

Check it out.

 

- Chris

Edited July 27, 2011 by zzR