Some Freeper Tips and Helps

	Freeper Tips and Helps for posting photos, links and other HTML goodies.
by Texas Yellow Rose

Table of Contents

#1 - How to post a link
#2 - How to post a photo or graphic
#3 - How to create a table
#4 - How to put a background image in your post or on your profile page
#5 - Free Patriotic Graphics
#6 - Free Software Downloads [HTML Editors]
#7 - Text Formatting Techniques
#8 - TIP: Internet Explorer is best for lurking at FR and is available for download in MAC and Windows format from Microsoft.Com
#9 - TIP: Where do I go if Free Republic is Down? HERE!
#10 - TIP: You are now able to create your own web page!

#1 - The best thing to know. How to post a link! [Back to Top]

Copy the address of the link you would like to create.
Type the following first: <a href="
Next paste the address you copied and close with ">
It will look like this :
<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/latest">
Next type in the name of the link. In this case I'll type:
Free Republic Latest Posts
Next close the text with the following </a>
Your have created this link Free Republic Latest Posts

How to post a photo link

Copy the address of the link you would like to create.
Type the following <a href="
Next paste the address you copied and close with ">
It will look like this:
<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/latest">
Next insert the code for the graphic In this case FR's logo
<img src="http://www.freerepublic.com/images/frlogo.gif">
Next close the link with the following: </a>
You have created this link:

#2 - The second best thing to know. How to post a picture! [Back to Top]

Search for free web space that will host your pictures and that will show up on Free Republic. This can be quite tricky and even after you do find the web space they may block the photos from showing up on Free Republic at some date in the future. (You can always move the photos later).
Create a page at your newly found web space and book mark it.
Upload your photos to the site.
Now... you would like to include a graphic or photo in one of your posts.
Simply type the following:
<img src="type the web address of your photo here">
How do you find the web address you say? Simply right click on the photo you uploaded to your web space and select "Properties". The address will be listed for you.

#3 Adding a graphic beside the text. How to create a table. [Back to Top]

The following is the correct format to use to create the table below. Copy and save the following text to a file and reuse it as often as you like.

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td width="10%"><p align="center">
<img src="http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Wootsey/cowboop.gif"></td>
<td width="90%">Type the text of your post here.<p>As you can see the graphic is beside
the text.</td>
</tr>
</table>

Note: You should type in your desired graphic address.

The following will be generated by the above text:

Type the text of your post here.

As you can see the graphic is beside the text.

#4 - How to use a background image in your posts. [Back to Top]

Tiled Background image. Insert the following HTML code. (Use your desired background image address.)
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
background="http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Wootsey/hstftxflagbg.jpg" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td width="100%">.Type your post or text here.<p> </p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Type your post here and it will appear on top of the background

image.

Border Background Image. Insert the following HTML code. (Use your desired background image address.)

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
background="http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Wootsey/bkg-cowgirl.gif"
align="left">
<tr>
<td width="18%">
<td width="18%"><img
src="http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Wootsey/invisi-spacer.gif" width="138"
height="12" "></td>
</td>
<td width="121%">Begin Text Here<p> </p>
<p> </p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Right Click in this space to save the Invisible spacer GIF.
You will need it to space the left side of the bordered background as listed above. The invisible spacer size can be changed to fit your needs.

Begin Text Here

#5 - Free Patriotic Graphics [Back to Top]

#6 - Free/Shareware Software to Download Web Page Editors [Back to Top]

Front Page Express
Search Tucows for your Platform (type in HTML Editors)

#7 - Text Formatting Techniques [Without a HTML Editor] [Back to Top]

Headings
<H1>Heading 1</H1>

<H2>Heading 2</H2>

<H3>Heading 3</H3>

<H4>Heading 4</H4>

<H5>Heading 5</H5>

<H6>Heading 6</H6>
List Items

A list of text .....
<li>

Klintoon

DemocRATS

Sheeple

</li>

FONTS
<font face="Arial">
Use the standard Arial, Helevetica, Verdana or Times, Times New Roman. Fancy type faces used as headline and subheadings are actually graphics. Certainly people surfing the net don't have the same fonts as you have on your system, so don't expect people to download your font to see your page as your design intended to be viewed. If you embed your font tag in your page and the viewer doesn't have that font on their system, the browser will show the page in the browser default font.
</font>
FONT SIZE

<font size=-1>

Point size or numeric standard?
0 is the standard equivalent to 10 points.</font>
Cross platform issues: Some browsers cannot read point sizes.

-2 -1 0 +1+2+3+4

FONT COLOR

<font color="#993333">
Use the web safe 216 colours palette or choose from the TRUE Color Chart </font>

Type Styles
Blockquote

<blockquote>Indent Left: - as shown here </blockquote>

Center

<center> Center your text or photo on the page </center>

Center your text or photo on the page

To Center A Photo or Graphic
<center><img src="http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Wootsey/sheeple2.gif"></center>

Marquee

<marquee> George Bush is doing a great job </marquee>
You'll see this:

George Bush is doing a great job

<marquee direction=right>George Bush is doing a great job</marquee>
You'll see this:

George Bush is doing a great job

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