Anchor Used to "Jump" Within Post

--Anchor used to "jump" forward or back in the post. (Also known as Bookmark)

The first line of code indicates (invisibly) exactly where you want the next code to allow you to jump to, in this case called a mid-point.

<a name="Mid"></a> (destination)

and this next line of code will be visible, saying "Go to Mid-point" and will do just that (when clicked on) from wherever you place it in the blog.

<a href="#Mid">Go To Mid-point</a> (starting point)

The A's are not alphabetical, they are anchors like others you encounter in coding. So a 2nd one would be very similar, except reading (for example) "Bot" in the first line and "Go to Bottom" in the second line. <a name="#Bot"></a> (destination)

<a href="Bot">Go to Bottom</a> (starting point)

OR

<a name="#Top"></a> (destination)

<a href="Top">Go to Top</a> (starting point)

Other "names" could be given; the Bookmark is not limited to the mentioned top, mid, and bottom. Name them as you desire, as long as the lines at the starting point and at the destination refer to the same Name.

The cursor will not arrive at any highlighted or marked position; you'll have to select "logical" places for the jump.

IN BETA: Select an html/javascript Page Element in which to place the "Go To" line (start) and move it with drag and drop. Select another such Page Element for the second line (destination); then drag and drop it where needed--at or preceding the destination.

Then you can JUMP from your starting point to the destination, forward or backward!

Copyright

A lot of crap about copyright and so forth goes around. I'm no expert in it. But check these out.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Google statement about copyright.

According to this, your work, if legitimate, is copyrighted even if you don't copyright it. But do you have the big bucks to enforce it against some large entity or big damn bastard who's stalking you in some manner? There's the rub.

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Low Sidebar

These are my rote instructions when sidebar nosedives happen, which mostly occur in the Internet Explorer browser. I don't know that it happens very much in Firefox, but it can happen there!

[More below...]

But, on to our problem! Sometimes it's simple, sometimes not.

Your sidebar may be going to the bottom because your server is crazy due to being worked on by Blogger. (This occurs less often than when I began and it would sometimes cause your sidebar not to begin at the top like it's supposed to.) Wrong code or missing pieces of code sometimes cause this kind of jump or aberration. It is probable you'll have to get out of Compose mode and enter Html mode in order to see wrong code in the posts. It is possible you have posted too large a photo. If so, use a photo program to create a smaller version of it or simply eliminate (delete) it as a temporary measure. It is possible you have too long a link somewhere. (In this regard, I'm referring only to the naked link such as "http:..etc." If you have placed the url in an anchor tag formula so that only the blog title is visible, that is NOT the kind of link meant here because the long part doesn't show or have any effect on the screen!) Change the link and the sidebar might go back to the top of the page. Also, look for a misstated IMG code. They can cause more trouble than just the image not showing! Possibly your main column width and sidebar exceed allowable Content width or header width. Sometimes one of the "floats" in the template will get changed for some reason and be wrong. Investigate. Options are "left", "right", and "none". If you suspect it may be caused by something in a particular post, you could Save as Draft to remove it temporarily and see if it was the cause. Then you can Publish it again later to put it back in place. Also, sometimes I've found it to be caused by just getting some wrong or missing code in the template or in a recent post. You might have one tag or symbol too many or too few. If you've deleted some things, maybe you left one little piece of nonsense code behind that's confusing the template. Once it was caused in a friend's site by a -->, the closing tag for hiding a comment; it had no start tag, was just wrongly there! Even if you remember something pretty clearly, always be willing to go back and examine codes or settings because Blogger is not completely stable--a glitch can occur!

Play Sherlock Holmes and test some changes without saving them until you use Preview and see that the change works and does no harm. It's hard, but I don't know any easy way. Think about the last 2 or 3 things you did. One oddity of the "low sidebar" is that there is sometimes a "delayed reaction" before the visible bad effect occurs, so that the post, image, or link that's the culprit may SEEM to have been innocent (caused no immediate problem) at first.

To test posts one at a time, use the Permalink feature; if you click on the Post Title, your site will show only that one post. When you keep doing the blog like that, you MAY find a single post that pushes the sidebar down and that post will be the cause of your trouble. In other cases, of course, the trouble is coming from the sidebar and you just have to figure it out.

To hear all this put another way, go to Peter's post about it or Chuck's post.

Strange Symbols

Clean MS Word Gobbledegook!

Word has formatted lettering. In short it introduces some gobblydegook and symbols that will screw up templates and sometimes posts. I use two methods, usually separately, to "clean them up".

1. I write often in Word, but I "clean" it (remove formatting) by copying and pasting into Notepad (plain-text editor), then copying that again before pasting it into the Blogger editor.

OR

2. I copy and paste the Word doc into Google Docs And Spreadsheets, then copy and paste that into the Blogger Editor. Sometimes this works when the other will not.

You CAN sometimes get away with using Word and it'll be okay. But then it will trip and stumble and screw up your blog when you're not looking! Apostrophes, quotation marks, or other symbols will appear and create havoc, and question marks will replace hyphens! I've found that the quotation marks in Word will screw up a link code (an anchor formula) because the machine is seeing it differently than you and I do!

Though Word is very good in its own arena, it's not worth being careless about pasting it directly into Blogger!

See also this post: Adding Pages.

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Line Breaks

When "Enter" doesn't make a new line

or, WHERE'S MY PARAGRAPHS?! 1. go to Dashboard 2. click "Change Settings" 3. click "Formatting" 4. find "Convert line breaks" and click it to "Yes" 5. go to bottom and Save your change. Beware of cached versions, either in your computer memory or elsewhere. Delete the cookies, clear the cache. If the above doesn't work, there may be times when a quick and dirty fix will do, that is, to make lines break with <br />. END.

Your "posted by" Or Display Name

To change the name
1. Go to Dashboard. 2. Go to Edit User Profile. 3. Go down to Display Name. 4. Fill in your name, your nom de plume, or your fake signature. 5. Go to bottom to Save Profile. In classic Blogger be sure to republish after this is done. END.

Links As Code

Using Buttons In The Post Editor

Many people do this: 1. Go to the site you want to link to and highlight it in the Browser's Address Box up above. Right-click and Copy the URL. 2. Go to New Post or your saved post in your blog and highlight the word or title that will serve as the link. 3. Click on the icon that looks like a chain and globe above the Post Editor. 4. Paste your copied URL into the box that appears in the far top left corner. 5. Click Okay in that box. 6. You'll see the URL in an "anchor" formula like this: <a href="http://rodentia.blogspot.com">Blog Name</a> 7. If you haven't already done so, add the blog title or the text you want between the start and end tags: <a href="http://rodentia.blogspot.com">The Rat Squeaks</a> This way, you'll have entered the entire link formula almost entirely by Blogger mechanism, thereby preventing any risk of misspelling the link.

Below is a combined screenshot of both the Html and the Compose screen, showing location of the chain symbol, etc.




Making Links The Manual Way, With Code

Every site you visit or create has a link name. you can find mine at http://rodentia.blogspot.com/

However, in a template, the link would read:

<a href="http://rodentia.blogspot.com/">The Rat Squeaks</a>

and the code would be unseen except for

"The Rat Squeaks".

If you're in a site and want to link back to it from your own site, put the cursor up in the Address window, right-click the mouse and then click Copy in the menu that appears close by. When you get to your template or to your temporary file (wherever), you can Paste what you copied before. Then you'll have to work it out like the formula shown above.

Permalinks

If you want to be able to point to a specific post, rather than just to the front page of the blog, find the bottom of the post and hover your cursor over things until the time indicator or some other item shows the term "permanent link". Then you can keep the cursor on that and right-click. The menu will show, among other things, Copy Shortcut. Click on that. Now you have the link you want in this case. Again, you have to insert it into the formula. like so:

<a> href="url">Title</a>

See also Links List and Clickable Button Link

In addition to the above, one can locate and copy the Permalink for a post by resting one's cursor over the post title. Just right-click your mouse and click "Copy Shortcut" in the Menu that opens. Then you can right-click it when ready to "Paste" it into the location of your choice.

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Recover Password and Username

Blogger's report form, how to get them back!

The above link will also send you to this FORM. If you don't know either your username (email) or your password, there are many ways of committing suicide, but DON'T DO IT, BUDDY!

Recover Your Template

Rote Advice For Recovering From Damaged Template

Is your blog showing as a blank screen or as incomplete? First of all, in Classic take the easy path and Republish. See if it clears up. Then check your template and see if it's truncated. You may not have caused the damage, but it happens! You have probably not lost any posts. Proceed.

If you don't have a safety copy of it, you could select a new or the same template over again and it might straighten out. If the template sidebar wasn't too changed, it might be a small loss to be repaired. Even better might be Googling for a cached version of the blog.

For that purpose, see if you can find a cached copy of your blog in Google or other search engine. If posts are missing, you might copy and paste a still-correct post. You can also go into Source code to copy the parts of the template you may be in danger of losing and yet absolutely need to preserve.

Be sure NOT to get in the View Source and copy any of the posts into your template later; they are not supposed to be there and the template will malfunction!

Selecting a new (or the same) template will not destroy your posts, only your current template (including the sidebar information).

If you are in New Blogger, you can go to the Edit Html box, look at the bottom of it, and locate the lines Revert to Classic Template. View Classic Template. Click on one of the lines. If you don't revert, you can copy and paste the old template and then use parts of it to sort out your current version. Remember that the code parts that were in your Classic template will go instead into some of the Page Elements that you create in New Blogger.

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New Blogger

If you're a new Blogger wondering why your blog can't be Googled yet, you may just be impatient. Your posts are not indexed immediately. The Google indexer goes through the whole Internet, then starts again, and it's not done in a short period. It may take as long as a month to find and index you, but once it starts, you'll probably be satisfied.

USE META TAGS if interested in hurrying the process more:

Look in your template and locate the head.

within the head you should insert the two meta tags below. The indexers will read these meta tags.

<head>
<meta name="description" content="Most frequent Blogger questions answered. advice and tips. Help Group. "></meta>
<meta name="keywords" content="help answer questions Blogger help group
advice tips solutions tips"></meta>
</head>

Change all the terms in the meta tags above to ones present in YOUR blog.

Above all, get your link out there. Share it with friends. Email your url to them. When you are in your site, highlight the url in the Address box up above, right-click and copy it. Paste it into emails. Then your friends can save it to a Bookmarks or Favorites list. Also, post comments in other and similar blogs. Be friendly, chat. Pay attention to people writing good stuff, but who don't have 20 or 30 comments per day yet. You'll be more likely to swap links with people who are not yet overwhelmed and who feel friendly toward you. You yourself must write plenty of good posts!

See also:

• Publicizing Your Blog


• Adding Sitemap


• Submit URL To Google

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