Jan 17 2009
Why didn’t you tell me?
You all have been keeping something from me. I had no idea. REALLY!!
You see, I’m very new to this format here at Today.com (which I believe is a Wordpress site but can’t be completely certain) and am still figuring out what all the little buttons above my text window mean. I know what many of them mean, but don’t exactly know how to use them.
Ok…if I work my way from left to right I have:
- The undo arrow - Don’t we all wish we had one of those in our daily lives?
- Maybe then the forward do - to undo doodoo from the undo.
- Then we have the typical cut, copy, paste, and a couple extra paste buttons.
- Then there’s a find/replace button - Can that button do anything for matching my socks?
- A remove formatting - which when I learn how to format, I’ll know exactly where to go to remove it.
- Next is the “cleanup messy code” button - can you point me to the “cleanup messy room” button?
- Spell Checker - a must have.
- The emoticon guy - Are you related to the dancing ball at Wal-Mart?
- The Insert Pic the size of a thumb pic - I must get better at using that one.
- You Tube - I like this one and you will see more of it.
- Embed Flash? - Huh?
- Embed media links? - Huh Huh?
- Now we have the text format buttons: BOLD, Itallics, Underline,
Strikethrough, Then the layoutOops…forgot to turn off the strikethrough.- The layout buttons - Indent with bullets, numbers, indent period - Would that be an Undent next to it?
- Left, center and right right justify - Is it really justified?
- Text Color
- Next we have the Insert & Edit Link buttons
- Then the split posts - why would I?
- The font is easy enough, but then the horseshoe, greek symbol thing. Huh?
- Then there’s a horizontal rule, insert date & time buttons, and some chart stuff.
For a week I have been doing the text link thing the hard way. I couldn’t figure out why the buttons wouldn’t show that they would work. So each time I linked I would go into code and try to do it the old fashined way. After the first few days I got lazy and stopped all linkage. No one told me that you have to HIGHLIGHT the word!!
So…what else aren’t you telling me?
yeah, i have been blogging for about 5 years now and couldn’t figure out for the life of me how to apply widgets such as technorati and blogher…it was just about a week and a half ago that someone actually helped talk me through it.
~momma http://savemoneymomma.today.com
Yeay!!
Pat pat on Grandy’s back!
Grandy is now discovering new stuff at wordpress. Well done.. nothing beats like learning it yourself eh
Today captcha:
Kearsarge Maine
LOL! Am I going to Maine now??
Momma~ Can you show me? I don’t know how to do the BlogHer thing either. I have an account and so desperately want to have it there…but can’t figure it out. Do you have any hints?
Jen~ I do remember Cliff’s Notes quite well actually. Swear by them.
LJ~ YAY!! Grandy is trying to learn. TRYING!!!
Oh…and my captcha…convinced unwounded (I’m rarely “unwounded”).