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The reason I named this section "Tripodisms" is because there are some things about the page editors that Tripod has that can cause you trouble if you're not careful. In this section I'll give you tips on using the various features that Tripod has. Tripod does have the best homepage builder method that I have seen. There are some things that you need to be aware of though that will allow you to make full use of the various editors that Tripod has without mistakes and headaches. Custom Page "isms" The custom Page editor is great, but the things you need to be aware of are: #1 Moving the cursor about When editing with the Custom Page editor, care should be used when moving the cursor around. I found out the hard way that if you dont move the cursor up the left hand side of the window to the line of HTML you wish to edit, you may cause some very strange alignment problems with the finished page. This can actually cause links to be broken, images to not show up, and various other difficulties. Never move the cursor between lines of HTML or text in this editor. #2 Navigation When navigating through the Custom page editor, you can use the "back" button, but use caution! If you create a page and then click the "Use this HTML" button to see the HTML and then veiw the page you just created, you can hit the back button to go back to edit something in the document, but, always reload the page when you get back to the HTML field to edit. If you do not it will cause problems like the ones listed above in "Moving the cursor about". You'll have so many broken things that you may need to start over again! Oh No!!! I already made this mistake! Well not to worry! Ol' Brian is here to show you how to fix it! What you have to do is move the cursor up the left hand side of the document to the very top of the page.
Move to the first line down and push the "delete" button only once to take out the spaces that have inadvertantly been inserted. If you push the delete button and erase a character that you need to have in there, just put that character back in and go down to the next line and repeat this process until you get to the </HTML> tag. Click on "Use this HTML" and look at the page, read the text carefully to make sure there is no double spaces, make sure your images come up, and make sure your links work. If they do, congratulations, If not, repeat the process until it all works correctly. #3 Using the "Reset" button This is a neat funtion that will allow you to erase the most recent change to your page. Say if you were entering in a new paragraph to a page that has already been written, you just want to add something else to it. You go through the proccess of writing some of the paragraph and then you change your mind. Instead of pushing the "Delete" button repeatedly just go down to the bottom of the page and hit the "reset" button and it will erase the changes you just put in. Its also nice if you go back in to edit something and you realize that you've made a horrible mistake. Do not save the HTML! Just go down to the bottom of the page, hit the reset button and POOF! The mistake magically disappears. #4 Deleting To delete a paragraph or lines of HTML do not use the"cmd+delete" function. This is very important! If you do use this function you will have the same results as listed above! The only safe way to delete lines is to move the cursor to the end of the line or paragraph you wish to delete then hold down the delete key until the undesirable characters are gone.
In the next section, we'll go over the "Quickpageisms" |