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––– CODING ––– How to share your code 1. (see post below) Practice Boards for sharing your code 2. http:/
How to Share your Code:
A Practice Board is a place to post your code and see the results. It also provides a new link to your page that you can share with other members on this board. This makes it easier for others to help with coding problems. Three different Practice Boards are listed here:
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<img src="http://www.isdntek.com/demo/practiceboard.gif">
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<img src="http://www.isdntek.com/demo/practicewriter.gif">
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<img src="http://www.isdntek.com/demo/practicedeadzoom.gif">
How to post an image to this board
Size: Images that you share on this board should be small enough to fit here and light-weight enough that they will not burden dialup users. Physically, an image will stretch the board if it is wider than about 500 pixels. And the file size should be compressed to under about 70K (70,000 bytes) maximum. Please resize and compress your images prior to uploading them and sharing them on this board. There are online resizers listed above if you just need to quickly convert a few images.
Upload: Images must be hosted on the web before they can be posted to this forum. If you do not already have a website or image host, then you may use one of the temporary hosts from the list above.
Paste: The image link must include a complete URL and must be enclosed in HTML code to display here. The temporary short-term hosts will automatically construct that code for you, which you can paste directly into your post. If your image is already online, you can right-click and read its properties to copy the URL. A complete URL will look something like this:
"http://www.myhost.com/mypic.jpg"
And the HTML code to display an image will look something like this:
<img src="http://www.myhost.com/mypic.jpg">
How to display small code segments
Small snippets of code can be displayed as raw code if the brackets are converted to HTML entity codes. If the code < is substituted for the leading less-than bracket < , the raw codes will display rather than rendering the results.
More info here:
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Here is a site that will handle the conversion automatically for you.
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and here is a free desktop tool that will do the same:
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Copy/Paste, Clipboard, and Notepad
Notepad: Notepad is a text editor that is available on all Windows computers.
It is the safest editor for hand-coding or editing HTML because it does not add any hidden formatting code. You may open or save HTML files in Notepad using these settings, with your own file name. You may also edit and save your code as a .txt file.Clipboard: The "clipboard" is the invisible place where your text is temporarily held when you "copy" or "paste".
Copy/Paste: To copy text on a Windows machine, hold down the mouse button and drag your cursor across the text until everything you want to copy is highlighted. Then hold down the "Ctrl" key and press the "c" key. That will copy your highlighted text. Click your cursor where you want to paste your text, and hold down the "Ctrl" key while pressing the "v" key to insert your text at the cursor. You can copy and paste on the same page or you can copy from one document and paste into another (as on the practice boards).
There are other key combinations for copy and paste. The basic ones are Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, there is also Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert, or right-click and select "copy" or "paste" from the cursor menu. To highlight everything, Ctrl+A will "Select All", which is useful when you are inside an editing box, like the ones on the practice boards, or when replacing or copying from an image slot.
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