Most Frequent Blogger Questions: View Anyone's Source Code


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Most Frequent Blogger Questions

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Most Frequent Blogger Questions

I don't know more than I know--sometimes I know even less!
Click to see the incredible list, All The Things I Don't Know! If some portion of this blog is unreadable in Firefox, Internet Explorer, or whatever, tell it to go to hell then try another browser!!!

I don't know more than I know--sometimes I know even less!

Click to see the incredible list,

All The Things I Don't Know!

If some portion of this blog is unreadable in Firefox, Internet Explorer, or whatever, tell it to go to hell then try another browser!!!

EMERGENCY STEPS

Kick-starting The Blog
1. Refresh (F5) or Ctrl-F5 2. Clear cache (delete temporary Internet files) and cookies in Tools-Internet Options. 3. Add a question mark to the end of your blog's internet address in the address box and see if it will show the latest update. (Can also be done with other people's url's in the address window.) 4. Republish (if in classic Blogger) 5. Reboot 6. Log out and log back in again (may change to an untroubled server) 7. Change or reload the browser (IE, Firefox, others) 8. Try a different computer, or see if you can duplicate the problem or avoid it in a post in another blog (make a test blog, whether in the same account or a second account, that's not public so nobody will see you screwing around!) ---Not necessary to do all of these at once!---

Kick-starting The Blog

1. Refresh (F5) or Ctrl-F5
2. Clear cache (delete temporary Internet files) and cookies in Tools-Internet Options.
3. Add a question mark to the end of your blog's internet address in the address box and see if it will show the latest update. (Can also be done with other people's url's in the address window.)
4. Republish (if in classic Blogger)
5. Reboot
6. Log out and log back in again (may change to an untroubled server)
7. Change or reload the browser (IE, Firefox, others)
8. Try a different computer, or see if you can duplicate the problem or avoid it in a post in another blog (make a test blog, whether in the same account or a second account, that's not public so nobody will see you screwing around!)

---Not necessary to do all of these at once!---

Blogger may make problems for some computers about accepting cookies, especially when you are using the new versions of Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers. Difficulties with accepting scripts may be caused by security systems, antivirus programs, firewalls, and some add-ons. Check all your settings.

You may need to change your browser settings, or to list www.blogger.com and blogger.com as "trusted sites" in your Internet Options-Security so that scripting can occur.


USEFUL BLOGGER HELP FILE http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41971&topic=8914 [For Newbies or anyone else who gets lost in the rain in Juarez.]

Saturday, October 06, 2007

View Anyone's Source Code

Internet Explorer
To view the code that other people use to display an icon, image, button, or other item, look at the browser (not Blogger) toolbar up above (while you are at their site) and 1. click View 2. click Source 3. right-click your mouse 4. click Select All 5. right-click again and click Copy. 6. open a Notepad file and Paste the code there. 7. Locate the applicable code, where it starts and ends. 8. Copy and Paste that snippet of code into your own template or page elements.

Internet Explorer

To view the code that other people use to display an icon, image, button, or other item, look at the browser (not Blogger) toolbar up above (while you are at their site) and

1. click View
2. click Source
3. right-click your mouse
4. click Select All
5. right-click again and click Copy.
6. open a Notepad file and Paste the code there.
7. Locate the applicable code, where it starts and ends.
8. Copy and Paste that snippet of code into your own template or page elements.

FIREFOX
For those of you who use or are comfortable with Firefox, it's simpler: 1. Mark (highlight) the area of interest. 2. Then right-click the mouse. 3. Click on "View Selection Source". 4. Code will appear on screen; Copy & Paste what's needed.

END.

Origins

Mama Mouse,
who used to participate in the Help Group and is sorely missed, suggested the idea of stickyposts a good while before Blogger began "flagging" long-term messages with a Tack symbol among the other posts by mere mortals, which made me think at the time of a bulletin board with stickyposts. There's still no way to stick them to the top of Blogger Help Group if you're not Blogger, so it turns out that the only way to do any good is to set myself up over here as an overbearing small-time knowitall or ad hoc advisor. Just another impudent putz who started a blog to explain how Blogger works and some of how it doesn't work!

Sometimes my true Rat nature seeps into the answers like a urine stain (like "What the HELL do you want to know THAT for?"), though mostly it doesn't. I try to keep it respectable here, but that's difficult...

Samuel Johnson: "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."

We here at Most Fiendish Blogger Questions salute you for getting this far!

MFBQ