Re: user icons as linkssyntonic_commaJuly 8 2005, 17:29:59 UTC
I think I'd rather put a link on my userinfo page to the icon collection on my own website. I still have to store the image files someplace, and the userinfo page is not the nicest editing environment.
Hmm, putting all those images on my userinfo page is also NOT FUN for the dial-up folks. (Can I my userinfo page??)
Also, when you pull an icon, it reverts to the new default. Thanks for that info. That means that swapping my icons frequently would not be a good way to get more variety. (And I don't have a default icon defined at all, because that allows me to post entries and comments without an icon.)
Maybe I'll just put icon-sized images into the body of my posts. Then I can choose from hundreds, and make them links, with ALT tags, etc. They won't show up in the margin with my userid, but I can probably live with that.
I'll bet that somewhere there's a tool that would let me set up a palette to pop these things into my clipboard for easy pasting, and a little script work should be able to generate the palette contents from the local copy of my icon-collection page.... (Like I need another project for the weekend.... ;-) [MacOSX, for those of you who may know of such a tool.]
Re: user icons as linkssyntonic_commaJuly 8 2005, 22:41:09 UTC
I've been kicking this palette idea around in my head, and I think I can generate a 2nd web page from my existing icon collection showing the icons and next to each the corresponding HTML code to copy+paste into my entry (or into a comment, or anything else). I load this new page into a browser tab and it's handy. The Unix make command updates my new page whenever I update my icon collection. Making things messier, one artist says this on her FAQ: I'd like to use pictures of your work. That's fine with me, as long as they're accompanied by my name and if they're online a link to [my site]. So to make people like her happy, I need her name with the image. Maybe I could do that by putting the icon into a table with the name text pulled from the ALT tag and placed below the image in a small font. If all this complexity is in the copy+paste string, it will be easy to use. (Hmmm, how do I flow text around a table...?) [Got it -- ]
Re: user icons as linkssyntonic_commaJuly 9 2005, 04:15:24 UTC
It's a start -- I've got a page of images and HTML code to copy/paste. It still needs more work to pick artists' names out of the ALT= tag, and I need to decide how I want to mark the names in the parent page -- maybe inside "{}", or following the string "[sp]by[sp]".
The page of icons w/ HTML took a long time to load from my ISP, but I'll normally be loading it from my local disk.
Re: user icons as linkssyntonic_commaJuly 9 2005, 05:31:43 UTC
Bathsheba GrossmanI think it's all there now. I'm putting artists (that should display) in "[sp](by [whomever])".
Strange problem -- on the images that use these tables for the artists' names, my browser won't highlight the HTML to copy and paste! The simpler entries work fine. Very mysterious....
But the HTML code works. The images display, and they are working links.
Re: user icons as linkssyntonic_commaJuly 11 2005, 20:12:30 UTC
Another thought -- the cut-paste text doesn't need to be normal size. It doesn't even need to be readable. Shrinking it severely might fit many of them onto single lines, making them easier to cut, and making the page smaller to display. (Something to try after I get home....)
Hmm, putting all those images on my userinfo page is also NOT FUN for the dial-up folks. (Can I my userinfo page??)
Also, when you pull an icon, it reverts to the new default.
Thanks for that info. That means that swapping my icons frequently would not be a good way to get more variety. (And I don't have a default icon defined at all, because that allows me to post entries and comments without an icon.)
Maybe I'll just put icon-sized images into the body of my posts. Then I can choose from hundreds, and make them links, with ALT tags, etc. They won't show up in the margin with my userid, but I can probably live with that.
I'll bet that somewhere there's a tool that would let me set up a palette to pop these things into my clipboard for easy pasting, and a little script work should be able to generate the palette contents from the local copy of my icon-collection page.... (Like I need another project for the weekend.... ;-) [MacOSX, for those of you who may know of such a tool.]
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I'd like to use pictures of your work.
That's fine with me, as long as they're accompanied by my name and if they're online a link to [my site].
So to make people like her happy, I need her name with the image. Maybe I could do that by putting the icon into a table with the name text pulled from the ALT tag and placed below the image in a small font. If all this complexity is in the copy+paste string, it will be easy to use. (Hmmm, how do I flow text around a table...?) [Got it -- ]
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It's a start -- I've got a page of images and HTML code to copy/paste. It still needs more work to pick artists' names out of the ALT= tag, and I need to decide how I want to mark the names in the parent page -- maybe inside "{}", or following the string "[sp]by[sp]".
The page of icons w/ HTML took a long time to load from my ISP, but I'll normally be loading it from my local disk.
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Bathsheba GrossmanI think it's all there now. I'm putting artists (that should display) in "[sp](by [whomever])".
Strange problem -- on the images that use these tables for the artists' names, my browser won't highlight the HTML to copy and paste! The simpler entries work fine. Very mysterious....
But the HTML code works. The images display, and they are working links.
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Another thought -- the cut-paste text doesn't need to be normal size. It doesn't even need to be readable. Shrinking it severely might fit many of them onto single lines, making them easier to cut, and making the page smaller to display. (Something to try after I get home....)
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